McAlester, Oklahoma, United States
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McAlester is a small city in southeastern Oklahoma best known as the birthplace of country music star Reba McEntire and as a regional economic and cultural hub.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| McAlester, Oklahoma | 10 |
| McAlester, Oklahoma, United States canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6395217 — 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: McAlester, Oklahoma, United States Context triple: [Reba McEntire, placeOfBirth, McAlester, Oklahoma, United States]
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Lawton, Oklahoma, United States
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States is a city in southwestern Oklahoma known for its proximity to Fort Sill and the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, known for its energy industry, cowboy culture, and role as a major economic and cultural center in the region.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Tulsa is a major city in northeastern Oklahoma known for its historic oil industry, distinctive Art Deco architecture, and role as a cultural and economic hub of the region.
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Vinita, Oklahoma
Vinita, Oklahoma is a small northeastern Oklahoma city known historically as a railroad and cattle town and for its location along major transportation routes including highways and rail lines.
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Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee, Oklahoma is a city in eastern Oklahoma known historically as a regional commercial and transportation hub and for its role in Native American and frontier history.
- 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: McAlester, Oklahoma, United States Target entity description: McAlester is a small city in southeastern Oklahoma best known as the birthplace of country music star Reba McEntire and as a regional economic and cultural hub.
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Lawton, Oklahoma, United States
Lawton, Oklahoma, United States is a city in southwestern Oklahoma known for its proximity to Fort Sill and the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.
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B.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, known for its energy industry, cowboy culture, and role as a major economic and cultural center in the region.
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Tulsa is a major city in northeastern Oklahoma known for its historic oil industry, distinctive Art Deco architecture, and role as a cultural and economic hub of the region.
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Vinita, Oklahoma
Vinita, Oklahoma is a small northeastern Oklahoma city known historically as a railroad and cattle town and for its location along major transportation routes including highways and rail lines.
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Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee, Oklahoma is a city in eastern Oklahoma known historically as a regional commercial and transportation hub and for its role in Native American and frontier history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: McAlester, Oklahoma, United States Description of subject: McAlester is a small city in southeastern Oklahoma best known as the birthplace of country music star Reba McEntire and as a regional economic and cultural hub.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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