Mena, Arkansas
E724928
Mena, Arkansas is a small city in western Arkansas known as a gateway to the Ouachita Mountains and the nearby Ouachita National Forest.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mena, Arkansas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8072813 — 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: Mena, Arkansas Context triple: [Ouachita National Forest, nearestCity, Mena, Arkansas]
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A.
Woodson, Arkansas
Woodson, Arkansas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Arkansas known for its rural character and proximity to the Little Rock metropolitan area.
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B.
El Dorado, Arkansas
El Dorado, Arkansas is a small city in southern Arkansas known historically for its oil boom and as a regional economic and cultural center within the Ark-La-Tex area.
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C.
Scott, Arkansas
Scott, Arkansas is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Arkansas known for its agricultural heritage and historic plantations.
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D.
Benton, Arkansas
Benton, Arkansas is a small city in central Arkansas that serves as the county seat of Saline County and a suburban community within the Little Rock metropolitan area.
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E.
Harrison, Arkansas
Harrison, Arkansas is a small city in north-central Arkansas that serves as a regional hub for government, commerce, and services in the Ozark Mountains 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: Mena, Arkansas Target entity description: Mena, Arkansas is a small city in western Arkansas known as a gateway to the Ouachita Mountains and the nearby Ouachita National Forest.
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A.
Woodson, Arkansas
Woodson, Arkansas is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Arkansas known for its rural character and proximity to the Little Rock metropolitan area.
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B.
El Dorado, Arkansas
El Dorado, Arkansas is a small city in southern Arkansas known historically for its oil boom and as a regional economic and cultural center within the Ark-La-Tex area.
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C.
Scott, Arkansas
Scott, Arkansas is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Arkansas known for its agricultural heritage and historic plantations.
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D.
Benton, Arkansas
Benton, Arkansas is a small city in central Arkansas that serves as the county seat of Saline County and a suburban community within the Little Rock metropolitan area.
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E.
Harrison, Arkansas
Harrison, Arkansas is a small city in north-central Arkansas that serves as a regional hub for government, commerce, and services in the Ozark Mountains area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 479 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeatOf | Polk County, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1120 feet
ⓘ
approximately 341 meters ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 05-45010 ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1896 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0077750 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
light manufacturing
ⓘ
timber ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasNearbyAttraction |
Queen Wilhelmina State Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Talimena Scenic Drive NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedIn | 1896 ⓘ |
| isGatewayTo |
Ouachita Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ouachita National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
outdoor recreation
ⓘ
proximity to Queen Wilhelmina State Park ⓘ scenic drives ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Polk County, Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInCountrySubdivision | United States South ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Ouachita Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
western Arkansas ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Oklahoma border ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Mena Janssen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near | Ouachita National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Arkansas River Valley region (broadly defined) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 5500 (2020 census) ⓘ |
| postalCode | 71953 ⓘ |
| region | Ouachita region of Arkansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBy | Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Arkansas ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| transportation |
Arkansas Highway 8 serves Mena
ⓘ
Arkansas Highway 88 serves Mena ⓘ U.S. Route 71 passes through Mena NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mena, Arkansas Description of subject: Mena, Arkansas is a small city in western Arkansas known as a gateway to the Ouachita Mountains and the nearby Ouachita National Forest.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.