Modoc County, California
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Modoc County, California is a sparsely populated rural county in the northeastern corner of the state, known for its volcanic landscapes, high desert plateaus, and extensive public lands.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Modoc County, California canonical | 15 |
| Modoc County | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T695871 — 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: Modoc County, California Context triple: [Medicine Lake Volcano, locatedIn, Modoc County, California]
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A.
Inyo County, California
Inyo County, California is a vast, sparsely populated county in the eastern Sierra Nevada known for containing both Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States, and parts of Death Valley, the lowest point in North America.
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Nye County
Nye County is a large, sparsely populated county in south-central Nevada known for its desert landscapes, mining history, and proximity to the Nevada Test Site.
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C.
Mariposa County
Mariposa County is a rural county in central California best known as the gateway to much of Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada.
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D.
Nevada County, California
Nevada County, California is a mountainous county in the Sierra Nevada region known for its Gold Rush history, scenic landscapes, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Shasta County
Shasta County is a largely rural county in far Northern California known for its forests, mountains, and outdoor recreation areas including Shasta Lake and Mount Shasta.
- 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: Modoc County, California Target entity description: Modoc County, California is a sparsely populated rural county in the northeastern corner of the state, known for its volcanic landscapes, high desert plateaus, and extensive public lands.
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A.
Inyo County, California
Inyo County, California is a vast, sparsely populated county in the eastern Sierra Nevada known for containing both Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States, and parts of Death Valley, the lowest point in North America.
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B.
Nye County
Nye County is a large, sparsely populated county in south-central Nevada known for its desert landscapes, mining history, and proximity to the Nevada Test Site.
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C.
Mariposa County
Mariposa County is a rural county in central California best known as the gateway to much of Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Nevada.
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D.
Nevada County, California
Nevada County, California is a mountainous county in the Sierra Nevada region known for its Gold Rush history, scenic landscapes, and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Shasta County
Shasta County is a largely rural county in far Northern California known for its forests, mountains, and outdoor recreation areas including Shasta Lake and Mount Shasta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Modoc County, California Description of subject: Modoc County, California is a sparsely populated rural county in the northeastern corner of the state, known for its volcanic landscapes, high desert plateaus, and extensive public lands.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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eastern California
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