Tama, Iowa
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Tama, Iowa is a small city in central Iowa that serves as a neighboring community to the Meskwaki Settlement, the only federally recognized Native American settlement in the state.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tama, Iowa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5516662 — 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: Tama, Iowa Context triple: [Meskwaki Settlement, Iowa, near, Tama, Iowa]
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A.
Elma, Iowa
Elma, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within Howard County.
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B.
Calmar, Iowa
Calmar, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa known for its rural community character and location within Winneshiek County.
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C.
Williamson, Iowa
Williamson, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Lucas County in the south-central part of the state.
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D.
Tennant, Iowa
Tennant, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
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E.
St. Marys, Iowa
St. Marys, Iowa is a small rural city located in south-central Iowa within the Des Moines 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: Tama, Iowa Target entity description: Tama, Iowa is a small city in central Iowa that serves as a neighboring community to the Meskwaki Settlement, the only federally recognized Native American settlement in the state.
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A.
Elma, Iowa
Elma, Iowa is a small rural city located in northeastern Iowa within Howard County.
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B.
Calmar, Iowa
Calmar, Iowa is a small city in northeastern Iowa known for its rural community character and location within Winneshiek County.
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C.
Williamson, Iowa
Williamson, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Lucas County in the south-central part of the state.
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D.
Tennant, Iowa
Tennant, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Shelby County.
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E.
St. Marys, Iowa
St. Marys, Iowa is a small rural city located in south-central Iowa within the Des Moines metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Toledo, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeatOf | none ⓘ |
| federalEntity | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 19-76375 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0461753 ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 641 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasElevation | approximately 860 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasFeature | proximity to Meskwaki Settlement ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | mayor–council ⓘ |
| hasNearbyEntity | Meskwaki Settlement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyNativeAmericanCommunity | Meskwaki Nation Settlement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCharacteristic | neighbor to the only federally recognized Native American settlement in Iowa ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | Tama, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPopulationRange | between 2,000 and 3,000 inhabitants ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 52339 ⓘ |
| hasRegionCode | US-IA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | city ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
U.S. Route 30
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 63 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| is | small city ⓘ |
| isInCounty | Tama County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Midwestern United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iowa
ⓘ
Tama County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | central Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Iowa River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| neighboringCommunityOf | Meskwaki Settlement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| subdivisionName1 | Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionName2 | Tama County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | city ⓘ |
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: Tama, Iowa Description of subject: Tama, Iowa is a small city in central Iowa that serves as a neighboring community to the Meskwaki Settlement, the only federally recognized Native American settlement in the state.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.