Waterloo, Iowa
E59849
Waterloo, Iowa is a mid-sized city in northeastern Iowa known as an industrial and commercial hub of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterloo, Iowa canonical | 52 |
| Waterloo, Iowa area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T402598 — 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: Waterloo, Iowa Context triple: [Cedar Falls, Iowa, nearestMajorCity, Waterloo, Iowa]
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A.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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B.
Coralville, Iowa
Coralville, Iowa is a growing suburban city in eastern Iowa, located near Iowa City and known for its shopping centers, recreational amenities, and proximity to the University of Iowa.
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C.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Loveland, Iowa
Loveland, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in western Iowa near the Missouri River.
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E.
Oakland, Iowa
Oakland, Iowa is a small rural city in southwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location along the West Nishnabotna River.
- 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: Waterloo, Iowa Target entity description: Waterloo, Iowa is a mid-sized city in northeastern Iowa known as an industrial and commercial hub of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River.
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A.
McClelland, Iowa
McClelland, Iowa is a small rural community located in Pottawattamie County in the western part of the state.
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B.
Coralville, Iowa
Coralville, Iowa is a growing suburban city in eastern Iowa, located near Iowa City and known for its shopping centers, recreational amenities, and proximity to the University of Iowa.
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C.
Hancock, Iowa
Hancock, Iowa is a small rural city located in western Iowa within Pottawattamie County.
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D.
Loveland, Iowa
Loveland, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in western Iowa near the Missouri River.
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E.
Oakland, Iowa
Oakland, Iowa is a small rural city in southwestern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location along the West Nishnabotna River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Waterloo, Iowa Description of subject: Waterloo, Iowa is a mid-sized city in northeastern Iowa known as an industrial and commercial hub of the Cedar Valley region along the Cedar River.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eastern Iowa
subject surface form:
Interstate 380 (Iowa)
subject surface form:
Interstate 380 (Iowa)
subject surface form:
Waterloo Regional Airport
subject surface form:
Waterloo Regional Airport
this entity surface form:
Waterloo, Iowa area
subject surface form:
Interstate 380 (Iowa)