Houston, Alaska
E557808
Houston, Alaska is a small city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough known as a rural community along the route between Anchorage and Denali National Park.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Houston, Alaska canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5357855 — 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: Houston, Alaska Context triple: [Parks Highway, passesThrough, Houston, Alaska]
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A.
Wasilla, Alaska
Wasilla, Alaska is a rapidly growing city in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley known as a commuter hub for Anchorage and a gateway to outdoor recreation in south-central Alaska.
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B.
Petersburg, Alaska
Petersburg, Alaska is a small fishing town in Southeast Alaska known for its strong Norwegian heritage and thriving commercial fishing industry.
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C.
Homer, Alaska
Homer, Alaska is a small coastal city on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula known for its fishing, arts community, and scenic Kachemak Bay setting.
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D.
Cordova, Alaska
Cordova, Alaska is a small coastal fishing town in south-central Alaska known for its rich salmon fisheries and scenic location near the mouth of the Copper River.
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E.
Healy, Alaska
Healy, Alaska is a small community in central Alaska that serves as a primary gateway and service hub for visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve.
- 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: Houston, Alaska Target entity description: Houston, Alaska is a small city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough known as a rural community along the route between Anchorage and Denali National Park.
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A.
Wasilla, Alaska
Wasilla, Alaska is a rapidly growing city in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley known as a commuter hub for Anchorage and a gateway to outdoor recreation in south-central Alaska.
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B.
Petersburg, Alaska
Petersburg, Alaska is a small fishing town in Southeast Alaska known for its strong Norwegian heritage and thriving commercial fishing industry.
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C.
Homer, Alaska
Homer, Alaska is a small coastal city on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula known for its fishing, arts community, and scenic Kachemak Bay setting.
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D.
Cordova, Alaska
Cordova, Alaska is a small coastal fishing town in south-central Alaska known for its rich salmon fisheries and scenic location near the mouth of the Copper River.
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E.
Healy, Alaska
Healy, Alaska is a small community in central Alaska that serves as a primary gateway and service hub for visitors to Denali National Park and Preserve.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 907 ⓘ |
| borough | Matanuska-Susitna Borough NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climateType | subarctic climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevationInFeet | 249 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 76 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 02-33940 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1413290 ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
forested surroundings
ⓘ
rural character ⓘ small population ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
construction
ⓘ
resource-based activities ⓘ retail trade ⓘ tourism-related services ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
recreational
ⓘ
residential ⓘ wooded areas ⓘ |
| hasMayor | city mayor of Houston, Alaska ⓘ |
| hasNearbyCity |
Big Lake, Alaska
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wasilla, Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ Willow, Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryHighway | Alaska Route 3 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationalOpportunities |
fishing
ⓘ
hunting ⓘ outdoor recreation ⓘ snowmachining ⓘ |
| isInRegion | Southcentral Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Anchorage metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isRuralCommunity | true ⓘ |
| isServedBy | road transportation ⓘ |
| locatedBetween |
Anchorage
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Denali National Park and Preserve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matanuska-Susitna Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Alaska Time Zone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Parks Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear |
2000
ⓘ
2010 ⓘ 2020 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 99694 ⓘ |
| state | Alaska ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Alaska Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportCorridorRole | stop along route between Anchorage and Denali National Park ⓘ |
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: Houston, Alaska Description of subject: Houston, Alaska is a small city in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough known as a rural community along the route between Anchorage and Denali National Park.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.