Flatwoods, West Virginia
E756182
Flatwoods, West Virginia is a small town in Braxton County best known for the 1952 “Flatwoods Monster” UFO incident and its location near major highways in central Appalachia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Flatwoods, West Virginia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8090663 — 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: Flatwoods, West Virginia Context triple: [U.S. Route 119, passesThrough, Flatwoods, West Virginia]
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A.
Sylvester, West Virginia
Sylvester, West Virginia is a small town located in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.
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B.
Dunbar, West Virginia
Dunbar, West Virginia is a small city in Kanawha County within the Charleston metropolitan area, situated along the Kanawha River.
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C.
Vance, West Virginia
Vance, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in rural Hampshire County in the Eastern Panhandle region of the state.
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D.
Ripley, West Virginia
Ripley, West Virginia is a small city in Jackson County known as a county seat and a typical Appalachian community along major regional routes.
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E.
Gassaway, West Virginia
Gassaway, West Virginia is a small town in Braxton County known historically as a railroad and transportation hub in central West Virginia.
- 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: Flatwoods, West Virginia Target entity description: Flatwoods, West Virginia is a small town in Braxton County best known for the 1952 “Flatwoods Monster” UFO incident and its location near major highways in central Appalachia.
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A.
Sylvester, West Virginia
Sylvester, West Virginia is a small town located in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.
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B.
Dunbar, West Virginia
Dunbar, West Virginia is a small city in Kanawha County within the Charleston metropolitan area, situated along the Kanawha River.
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C.
Vance, West Virginia
Vance, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in rural Hampshire County in the Eastern Panhandle region of the state.
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D.
Ripley, West Virginia
Ripley, West Virginia is a small city in Jackson County known as a county seat and a typical Appalachian community along major regional routes.
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E.
Gassaway, West Virginia
Gassaway, West Virginia is a small town in Braxton County known historically as a railroad and transportation hub in central West Virginia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Braxton County, West Virginia ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
304
ⓘ
681 ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Flatwoods Monster Museum
ⓘ
Flatwoods Monster chairs ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 54-28116 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 1554470 ⓘ |
| hasNearbyBodyOfWater | Sutton Lake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFacility |
Days Inn & Suites by Wyndham Sutton Flatwoods
ⓘ
Flatwoods Factory Outlet Stores ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 26621 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
1952 Flatwoods Monster UFO incident
ⓘ
Flatwoods Monster ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Braxton County, West Virginia
ⓘ
central Appalachia ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Interstate 79
ⓘ
Interstate 79 exit 67 ⓘ
linked to:
Interstate 79
Sutton, West Virginia ⓘ U.S. Route 19 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Braxton County, West Virginia
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
West Virginia ⓘ |
| state | West Virginia ⓘ |
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: Flatwoods, West Virginia Description of subject: Flatwoods, West Virginia is a small town in Braxton County best known for the 1952 “Flatwoods Monster” UFO incident and its location near major highways in central Appalachia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.