Oroville
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Oroville is a small city in Northern California known for its proximity to the Oroville Dam and Lake Oroville recreation area.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Oroville canonical | 8 |
| City of Oroville | 2 |
| Oroville, California | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T893701 — 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: Oroville Context triple: [Butte County, hasCountySeat, Oroville]
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A.
Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a large man-made reservoir in Northern California, created by the Oroville Dam on the Feather River, that serves as a major source of water storage, flood control, and recreation.
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B.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
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C.
Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a large concrete dam on the American River in California that provides flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power for the Sacramento region.
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D.
Oroville Dam
Oroville Dam is a large earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River in Northern California, serving as a key water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric facility.
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E.
Perris Dam
Perris Dam is a large earthfill embankment dam in Riverside County, California, that forms Lake Perris as part of the state’s major water storage and distribution system.
- 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: Oroville Target entity description: Oroville is a small city in Northern California known for its proximity to the Oroville Dam and Lake Oroville recreation area.
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A.
Lake Oroville
Lake Oroville is a large man-made reservoir in Northern California, created by the Oroville Dam on the Feather River, that serves as a major source of water storage, flood control, and recreation.
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B.
Shasta Dam
Shasta Dam is a large concrete gravity dam on California’s Sacramento River, forming Shasta Lake and serving as a key source of water storage, hydroelectric power, and flood control for the state.
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C.
Folsom Dam
Folsom Dam is a large concrete dam on the American River in California that provides flood control, water storage, and hydroelectric power for the Sacramento region.
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D.
Oroville Dam
Oroville Dam is a large earthfill embankment dam on the Feather River in Northern California, serving as a key water storage, flood control, and hydroelectric facility.
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E.
Perris Dam
Perris Dam is a large earthfill embankment dam in Riverside County, California, that forms Lake Perris as part of the state’s major water storage and distribution system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 530 ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision |
Western United States
ⓘ
linked to:
western United States
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| county | Butte County ⓘ |
| damHeightNearby | near one of the tallest dams in the United States ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture in surrounding area
ⓘ
outdoor recreation tourism ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 50 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| feature |
Chinese Temple (Oroville Chinese Temple)
ⓘ
Feather River Fish Hatchery ⓘ Riverbend Park ⓘ gateway to Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ historic downtown district ⓘ proximity to Oroville Wildlife Area ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Oroville Municipal Airport ⓘ |
| hasFIPSCode | 06-53956 ⓘ |
| hasGNISFeatureID | 0277564 ⓘ |
| hasNearbyStateRecreationArea |
Lake Oroville State Recreation Area
ⓘ
linked to:
Lake Oroville
|
| hasPostalCodePrefix | 959 ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | Gold Rush–era settlement area ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Butte County ⓘ |
| knownFor |
access to Lake Oroville recreation area
ⓘ
proximity to Oroville Dam ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Butte County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Butte County
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| locatedInRegion | Northern California ⓘ |
| locatedInValley |
Sacramento Valley region
ⓘ
linked to:
Sacramento Valley
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| locatedNorthOf | Sacramento ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Feather River ⓘ |
| locatedSoutheastOf |
Chico, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Chico
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| namedFor | gold (oro in Spanish) ⓘ |
| nearbyStructure | Oroville Dam ⓘ |
| nearbyWaterBody | Lake Oroville ⓘ |
| partOfMetropolitanArea |
Chico metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Chico
|
| recreation |
boating on Lake Oroville
ⓘ
camping near Lake Oroville ⓘ fishing on Feather River ⓘ |
| region | Sacramento Valley ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
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| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Time Zone
|
| transportation |
served by State Route 162
ⓘ
served by State Route 70 ⓘ |
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: Oroville Description of subject: Oroville is a small city in Northern California known for its proximity to the Oroville Dam and Lake Oroville recreation area.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Oroville