Festus, Missouri
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Festus, Missouri is a small city in Jefferson County that forms part of the greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Festus, Missouri canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9917552 — 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: Festus, Missouri Context triple: [Eastern Missouri, contains, Festus, Missouri]
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A.
Neosho, Missouri
Neosho, Missouri is a small city in southwestern Missouri known for its historic downtown, natural springs, and role as the county seat of Newton County.
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B.
Sibley, Missouri
Sibley, Missouri is a small village in western Missouri known for its proximity to the historic Fort Osage site along the Missouri River.
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C.
Calhoun, Missouri
Calhoun, Missouri is a small rural village located in Henry County in the west-central region of the state.
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D.
Freeman, Missouri
Freeman, Missouri is a small rural city located in Cass County in western Missouri, United States.
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E.
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri is a historic Mississippi River town best known as Mark Twain’s boyhood home and the inspiration for the settings of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- 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: Festus, Missouri Target entity description: Festus, Missouri is a small city in Jefferson County that forms part of the greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
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A.
Neosho, Missouri
Neosho, Missouri is a small city in southwestern Missouri known for its historic downtown, natural springs, and role as the county seat of Newton County.
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B.
Sibley, Missouri
Sibley, Missouri is a small village in western Missouri known for its proximity to the historic Fort Osage site along the Missouri River.
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C.
Calhoun, Missouri
Calhoun, Missouri is a small rural village located in Henry County in the west-central region of the state.
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D.
Freeman, Missouri
Freeman, Missouri is a small rural city located in Cass County in western Missouri, United States.
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E.
Hannibal, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri is a historic Mississippi River town best known as Mark Twain’s boyhood home and the inspiration for the settings of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Herculaneum, Missouri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pevely, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 636 ⓘ |
| areaLandSqMi | 5.71 ⓘ |
| areaTotalSqMi | 5.71 ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Crystal City, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| coordinates | 38.2203°N 90.3953°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Jefferson County, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countySeatOf | none ⓘ |
| distanceToStLouisMi | about 30 GENERATED ⓘ |
| elevationFt | 489 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 29-23980 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 0717650 ⓘ |
| governmentType | mayor–council government ⓘ |
| hasElementarySchool | Festus Elementary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Festus High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMiddleSchool | Festus Middle School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1888 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jefferson County, Missouri
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Midwestern United States ⓘ Missouri ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Mississippi River drainage basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mayor | Sam Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metropolitanStatisticalArea | St. Louis, MO–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Festus J. Wade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | St. Louis, Missouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greater St. Louis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Louis metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 12,000 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 12323 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 63028 ⓘ |
| previousName | Tanglefoot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicLibrary | Festus Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | eastern Missouri ⓘ |
| schoolDistrict | Festus R-VI School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedByHighway |
Interstate 55
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 61 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 67 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settled | late 19th century ⓘ |
| state | Missouri ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| twinCityWith | Crystal City, Missouri 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: Festus, Missouri Description of subject: Festus, Missouri is a small city in Jefferson County that forms part of the greater St. Louis metropolitan area.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eastern Missouri
subject surface form:
Crystal City, Missouri
subject surface form:
Crystal City, Missouri