Belle Plaine, Iowa
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Belle Plaine, Iowa is a small city in Benton County known for its historic downtown and location along the former Lincoln Highway in central Iowa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Belle Plaine, Iowa canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8750788 — 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: Belle Plaine, Iowa Context triple: [Central Iowa, hasCity, Belle Plaine, Iowa]
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A.
Wheatland, Iowa
Wheatland, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Clinton County.
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B.
Pleasantville, Iowa
Pleasantville, Iowa is a small rural city in south-central Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
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C.
Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Pleasant Hill, Iowa is a suburban city in the Des Moines metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and growing commercial development.
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D.
Blanchard, Iowa
Blanchard, Iowa is a small rural city located in the southwestern part of the state near the Missouri border.
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E.
Sibley, Iowa
Sibley, Iowa is a small city in northwestern Iowa that serves as the administrative and commercial hub of Osceola County.
- 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: Belle Plaine, Iowa Target entity description: Belle Plaine, Iowa is a small city in Benton County known for its historic downtown and location along the former Lincoln Highway in central Iowa.
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A.
Wheatland, Iowa
Wheatland, Iowa is a small rural city in eastern Iowa known for its agricultural community and location within Clinton County.
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B.
Pleasantville, Iowa
Pleasantville, Iowa is a small rural city in south-central Iowa known for its close-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
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C.
Pleasant Hill, Iowa
Pleasant Hill, Iowa is a suburban city in the Des Moines metropolitan area known for its residential communities, parks, and growing commercial development.
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D.
Blanchard, Iowa
Blanchard, Iowa is a small rural city located in the southwestern part of the state near the Missouri border.
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E.
Sibley, Iowa
Sibley, Iowa is a small city in northwestern Iowa that serves as the administrative and commercial hub of Osceola County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode | 319 ⓘ |
| climateType | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Midwest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Benton County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 810 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 247 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 19-05835 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0454455 ⓘ |
| hasFeature | historic downtown ⓘ |
| hasHistoricAssociation | Lincoln Highway heritage ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Belle Plaine Community Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Belle Plaine Community School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportationHistory | served by Chicago & North Western Railway ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1868 ⓘ |
| landAreaSquareKilometers | 8.03 ⓘ |
| landAreaSquareMiles | 3.10 ⓘ |
| localGovernmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| locatedAlong | former Lincoln Highway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Benton County, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Iowa ⓘ Midwestern United States ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Iowa River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | French phrase meaning "beautiful plain" ⓘ |
| partOf | Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 2494 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 2434 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 52208 ⓘ |
| region | central Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| timeZoneStandard |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| waterAreaSquareKilometers | 0.05 ⓘ |
| waterAreaSquareMiles | 0.02 ⓘ |
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: Belle Plaine, Iowa Description of subject: Belle Plaine, Iowa is a small city in Benton County known for its historic downtown and location along the former Lincoln Highway in central Iowa.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Central Iowa