Parkersburg, Iowa
E685231
Parkersburg, Iowa is a small rural city in Butler County known for its tight-knit community and Midwestern agricultural surroundings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Parkersburg, Iowa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7730997 — 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: Parkersburg, Iowa Context triple: [Pauline Pfeiffer, placeOfBirth, Parkersburg, Iowa]
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A.
Prairieburg, Iowa
Prairieburg, Iowa is a small rural city located in eastern Iowa within Linn County.
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B.
Williamsburg, Iowa
Williamsburg, Iowa is a small city in eastern Iowa known for its rural community character and proximity to the Tanger Outlet Center shopping area.
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C.
Pershing, Iowa
Pershing, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Marion County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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D.
Millersburg, Iowa
Millersburg, Iowa is a small rural city located in eastern Iowa within the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City region.
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E.
Portsmouth, Iowa
Portsmouth, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
- 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: Parkersburg, Iowa Target entity description: Parkersburg, Iowa is a small rural city in Butler County known for its tight-knit community and Midwestern agricultural surroundings.
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A.
Prairieburg, Iowa
Prairieburg, Iowa is a small rural city located in eastern Iowa within Linn County.
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B.
Williamsburg, Iowa
Williamsburg, Iowa is a small city in eastern Iowa known for its rural community character and proximity to the Tanger Outlet Center shopping area.
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C.
Pershing, Iowa
Pershing, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Marion County in the U.S. state of Iowa.
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D.
Millersburg, Iowa
Millersburg, Iowa is a small rural city located in eastern Iowa within the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City region.
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E.
Portsmouth, Iowa
Portsmouth, Iowa is a small rural city in western Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode | 319 ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Butler County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic |
predominantly rural residents
ⓘ
small population ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 19-61235 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0460014 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Parkersburg city government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
agricultural surroundings
ⓘ
rural community ⓘ small city ⓘ tight-knit community ⓘ |
| hasClimate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| hasCommunityFeature |
city park system
ⓘ
local churches ⓘ local schools ⓘ local sports programs ⓘ small businesses ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Aplington–Parkersburg Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfStatisticalArea | Waterloo–Cedar Falls metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| landUse |
livestock farming
ⓘ
row-crop farming ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
rural Iowa ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Beaver Creek (Iowa) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestLargeCity |
Cedar Falls, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Waterloo, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | struck by EF5 tornado in May 2008 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Butler County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ
surface form:
State of Iowa
Midwestern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| postalCode | 50665 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
agribusiness support services
ⓘ
agriculture ⓘ |
| rebuildingEffort | community-led post-2008 tornado reconstruction ⓘ |
| regionType | agricultural region ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
Iowa Highway 14
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa Highway 57 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBySchoolDistrict | Aplington–Parkersburg Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Parkersburg, Iowa Description of subject: Parkersburg, Iowa is a small rural city in Butler County known for its tight-knit community and Midwestern agricultural surroundings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.