Parchman, Mississippi
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Parchman, Mississippi is a small unincorporated community best known as the location of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, one of the most infamous prisons in the United States.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mississippi State Penitentiary | 1 |
| Parchman prison | 1 |
| Parchman, Mississippi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8339748 — 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: Parchman, Mississippi Context triple: [Sunflower County, Mississippi, containsSettlement, Parchman, Mississippi]
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A.
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Louisiana State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Angola, Louisiana, known as one of the largest and most notorious correctional facilities in the United States.
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B.
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was a maximum-security prison in Tennessee, historically known for housing high-profile inmates and its harsh, isolated conditions.
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C.
Telfair State Prison
Telfair State Prison is a Georgia state correctional facility that houses adult male inmates and is operated by the Georgia Department of Corrections.
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D.
Raiford
Raiford is the given first name of the American actor, director, and civil rights activist Ossie Davis.
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E.
Huntsville Unit
Huntsville Unit is a historic Texas state prison in Huntsville known for housing the state's execution chamber and serving as a major intake and processing facility for inmates.
- 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: Parchman, Mississippi Target entity description: Parchman, Mississippi is a small unincorporated community best known as the location of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, one of the most infamous prisons in the United States.
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A.
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Louisiana State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Angola, Louisiana, known as one of the largest and most notorious correctional facilities in the United States.
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B.
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary was a maximum-security prison in Tennessee, historically known for housing high-profile inmates and its harsh, isolated conditions.
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C.
Telfair State Prison
Telfair State Prison is a Georgia state correctional facility that houses adult male inmates and is operated by the Georgia Department of Corrections.
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D.
Raiford
Raiford is the given first name of the American actor, director, and civil rights activist Ossie Davis.
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E.
Huntsville Unit
Huntsville Unit is a historic Texas state prison in Huntsville known for housing the state's execution chamber and serving as a major intake and processing facility for inmates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode | 662 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
African American civil rights history
ⓘ
incarceration of Freedom Riders ⓘ prison labor history ⓘ |
| coordinateSystem | World Geodetic System 1984 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Sunflower County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 144 ⓘ |
| featureClass | populated place ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 675445 ⓘ |
| governedBy | Sunflower County authorities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFacility | Mississippi State Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSettlement | rural community ⓘ |
| hasZIPCodeTabulationArea | 38738 ⓘ |
| knownFor | Mississippi State Penitentiary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Mississippi Delta region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sunflower County, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| near |
Drew, Mississippi
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tutwiler, Mississippi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 38738 ⓘ |
| servedBy | U.S. Route 49W NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Mississippi ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| 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: Parchman, Mississippi Description of subject: Parchman, Mississippi is a small unincorporated community best known as the location of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, one of the most infamous prisons in the United States.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mississippi State Penitentiary
this entity surface form:
Parchman prison