Newton, Kansas
E816023
Newton, Kansas is a small city in south-central Kansas known historically as a railroad hub and gateway to the American West.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Newton, Kansas canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9080559 — 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: Newton, Kansas Context triple: [Harvey County, Kansas, countySeat, Newton, Kansas]
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A.
Watson, Kansas
Watson, Kansas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Shawnee County in the U.S. state of Kansas.
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B.
Madison, Kansas
Madison, Kansas is a small rural city in Greenwood County known for its agricultural surroundings and location in east-central Kansas.
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C.
St. Paul, Kansas
St. Paul, Kansas is a small rural city in southeastern Kansas known for its strong Catholic heritage and historic mission roots.
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D.
Peabody, Kansas
Peabody, Kansas is a small historic city in central Kansas known for its 19th-century architecture and annual Independence Day celebrations.
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E.
Walker, Kansas
Walker, Kansas is a small unincorporated community in Ellis County in central Kansas, historically tied to the region’s railroad and agricultural development.
- 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: Newton, Kansas Target entity description: Newton, Kansas is a small city in south-central Kansas known historically as a railroad hub and gateway to the American West.
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A.
Watson, Kansas
Watson, Kansas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Shawnee County in the U.S. state of Kansas.
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B.
Madison, Kansas
Madison, Kansas is a small rural city in Greenwood County known for its agricultural surroundings and location in east-central Kansas.
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C.
St. Paul, Kansas
St. Paul, Kansas is a small rural city in southeastern Kansas known for its strong Catholic heritage and historic mission roots.
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D.
Peabody, Kansas
Peabody, Kansas is a small historic city in central Kansas known for its 19th-century architecture and annual Independence Day celebrations.
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E.
Walker, Kansas
Walker, Kansas is a small unincorporated community in Ellis County in central Kansas, historically tied to the region’s railroad and agricultural development.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 316 ⓘ |
| climate | humid continental climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Harvey County, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 25 miles north of Wichita, Kansas ⓘ |
| economicSector |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ rail transportation ⓘ |
| founded | 1871 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Newton City Commission NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | commission-manager government ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Newton City-County Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAnnualEvent |
Harvey County Fair
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Taste of Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Bethel College (nearby in North Newton) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Newton Downtown Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHospital | NMC Health (formerly Newton Medical Center) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Harvey County Historical Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Athletic Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Newton Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailFacility | BNSF Railway yard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
gateway to the American West
ⓘ
railroad hub ⓘ |
| incorporated | 1872 ⓘ |
| locatedInPhysiographicRegion | Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | south-central Kansas ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Sand Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
Interstate 135
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 50 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 81 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Newton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Halstead, Kansas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hesston, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ North Newton, Kansas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfMetropolitanArea | Wichita metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationEstimate | around 18,000 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 67114 ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
| railroadServedBy | Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionHistoricallyAssociatedWith | American Old West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Harvey County, Kansas ⓘ |
| state | Kansas ⓘ |
| transportationMode |
freight rail
ⓘ
general aviation ⓘ |
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: Newton, Kansas Description of subject: Newton, Kansas is a small city in south-central Kansas known historically as a railroad hub and gateway to the American West.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.