St. Mary, Iowa
E879168
St. Mary, Iowa is a small unincorporated community in Warren County historically associated with early settler and fur trader Peter A. Sarpy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| St. Mary, Iowa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10688424 — 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: St. Mary, Iowa Context triple: [Peter A. Sarpy, residence, St. Mary, Iowa]
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A.
St. Marys, Iowa
St. Marys, Iowa is a small rural city located in south-central Iowa within the Des Moines metropolitan area.
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B.
Williamson, Iowa
Williamson, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Lucas County in the south-central part of the state.
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C.
Martensdale, Iowa
Martensdale, Iowa is a small rural city in south-central Iowa that serves as a local community hub within the Des Moines metropolitan area.
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D.
Stanton, Iowa
Stanton, Iowa is a small rural city in southwestern Iowa known for its Swedish heritage and distinctive coffee-pot-shaped water towers.
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E.
Marysville, Iowa
Marysville, Iowa is a small rural community located in Marion County in the south-central part of the state.
- 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: St. Mary, Iowa Target entity description: St. Mary, Iowa is a small unincorporated community in Warren County historically associated with early settler and fur trader Peter A. Sarpy.
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A.
St. Marys, Iowa
St. Marys, Iowa is a small rural city located in south-central Iowa within the Des Moines metropolitan area.
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B.
Williamson, Iowa
Williamson, Iowa is a small unincorporated rural community located in Lucas County in the south-central part of the state.
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C.
Martensdale, Iowa
Martensdale, Iowa is a small rural city in south-central Iowa that serves as a local community hub within the Des Moines metropolitan area.
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D.
Stanton, Iowa
Stanton, Iowa is a small rural city in southwestern Iowa known for its Swedish heritage and distinctive coffee-pot-shaped water towers.
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E.
Marysville, Iowa
Marysville, Iowa is a small rural community located in Marion County in the south-central part of the state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Warren County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedAsPartOf | Warren County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 515 ⓘ |
| hasFeatureCode | unincorporated place ⓘ |
| hasGNISClassification | populated place ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalEconomicActivity | fur trade ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalFigure | Peter A. Sarpy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Saint Mary, Iowa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
St. Marys, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalAbbreviationState | IA ⓘ |
| hasReligionTraditionallyAssociated | Roman Catholicism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural community ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith | Peter A. Sarpy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInCountrySubdivision | Warren County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInRegion | south-central Iowa ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Warren County, Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Saint Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Midwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
United States Midwest
|
| state | Iowa ⓘ |
| 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: St. Mary, Iowa Description of subject: St. Mary, Iowa is a small unincorporated community in Warren County historically associated with early settler and fur trader Peter A. Sarpy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.