Alma, Kansas
E524769
Alma, Kansas is a small city in Wabaunsee County that serves as the county seat and lies within the broader Manhattan, Kansas region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alma, Kansas canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4865899 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alma, Kansas Context triple: [Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area, containsCommunity, Alma, Kansas]
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A.
Holcomb, Kansas
Holcomb, Kansas is a small rural village in western Kansas best known as the real-life setting of Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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B.
De Soto, Kansas
De Soto, Kansas is a small city in northeastern Kansas that forms part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
Mission, Kansas
Mission, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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D.
Tecumseh, Kansas
Tecumseh, Kansas is a small unincorporated community in northeastern Kansas, located just east of Topeka along the Kansas River.
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E.
Merriam, Kansas
Merriam, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alma, Kansas Target entity description: Alma, Kansas is a small city in Wabaunsee County that serves as the county seat and lies within the broader Manhattan, Kansas region.
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A.
Holcomb, Kansas
Holcomb, Kansas is a small rural village in western Kansas best known as the real-life setting of Truman Capote’s true-crime book "In Cold Blood."
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B.
De Soto, Kansas
De Soto, Kansas is a small city in northeastern Kansas that forms part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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C.
Mission, Kansas
Mission, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
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D.
Tecumseh, Kansas
Tecumseh, Kansas is a small unincorporated community in northeastern Kansas, located just east of Topeka along the Kansas River.
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E.
Merriam, Kansas
Merriam, Kansas is a small suburban city in Johnson County that forms part of the greater Kansas City metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 785 ⓘ |
| climateClassification | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| county | Wabaunsee County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | about 1030 feet ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 20-01025 ⓘ |
| founded | 1860s ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0473670 ⓘ |
| hasCemetery | Alma City Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Alma Downtown Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocalFestival | Alma City-Wide events and community celebrations ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasLocalNewspaper | Wabaunsee County Signal-Enterprise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | City of Native Stone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostOfficeSince | 1870s ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Alma Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Wabaunsee USD 329 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1883 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Wabaunsee County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | historic limestone buildings ⓘ |
| landArea | approximately 0.59 square miles ⓘ |
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Manhattan, Kansas metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Flint Hills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| locatedSouthwestOf | Manhattan, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Topeka, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorHighway | Kansas Highway 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medianHouseholdIncomeEstimate2020s | around $50,000–$60,000 ⓘ |
| namedFor | Alma, Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestLargeCity | Topeka, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearInterstateHighway | Interstate 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | Central Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalArea | Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 832 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 802 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivities |
agriculture
ⓘ
local services ⓘ small-scale manufacturing ⓘ |
| region | northeastern Kansas ⓘ |
| servedByRailroadHistorically | Missouri Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Kansas ⓘ |
| waterArea | approximately 0.01 square miles ⓘ |
| ZIPCode | 66401 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Alma, Kansas Description of subject: Alma, Kansas is a small city in Wabaunsee County that serves as the county seat and lies within the broader Manhattan, Kansas region.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.