Bodie (ghost town)
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Bodie is a well-preserved former gold-mining boomtown in California that is now a famous ghost town and State Historic Park.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bodie ghost town | 3 |
| Bodie | 2 |
| Bodie (ghost town) canonical | 1 |
| Bodie, California | 1 |
| ghost town of Bodie, California | 1 |
| historic ghost town of Bodie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1214101 — 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: Bodie (ghost town) Context triple: [Mono County, contains, Bodie (ghost town)]
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A.
Nevada City
Nevada City is a historic Gold Rush-era town in Northern California known for its well-preserved 19th-century architecture and role in the state’s mining heritage.
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B.
Battle Mountain mining district
The Battle Mountain mining district is a historically significant mineral-producing area in north-central Nevada known for its rich gold and copper deposits.
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C.
Comstock Lode area
The Comstock Lode area is a historically significant mining district in Nevada famed for its rich silver ore deposits that spurred a major 19th-century mining boom and helped drive U.S. economic growth.
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D.
Denair
Denair is a small unincorporated community in California’s Central Valley, located in Stanislaus County near the city of Turlock.
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E.
Delta Junction
Delta Junction is a small city in Alaska known as a gateway to the Alaska Highway and nearby military training areas.
- 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: Bodie (ghost town) Target entity description: Bodie is a well-preserved former gold-mining boomtown in California that is now a famous ghost town and State Historic Park.
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A.
Nevada City
Nevada City is a historic Gold Rush-era town in Northern California known for its well-preserved 19th-century architecture and role in the state’s mining heritage.
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B.
Battle Mountain mining district
The Battle Mountain mining district is a historically significant mineral-producing area in north-central Nevada known for its rich gold and copper deposits.
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C.
Comstock Lode area
The Comstock Lode area is a historically significant mining district in Nevada famed for its rich silver ore deposits that spurred a major 19th-century mining boom and helped drive U.S. economic growth.
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D.
Denair
Denair is a small unincorporated community in California’s Central Valley, located in Stanislaus County near the city of Turlock.
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E.
Delta Junction
Delta Junction is a small city in Alaska known as a gateway to the Alaska Highway and nearby military training areas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former mining town
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ghost town ⓘ state historic park ⓘ |
| accessedFrom | State Route 270 (Bodie Road) ⓘ |
| boomPeriod |
early 1880s
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late 1870s ⓘ |
| climate | cold semi-arid to alpine climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| declineBegan | 1880s ⓘ |
| designatedStateHistoricPark | 1962 ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 2550 meters above sea level
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about 8379 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| foundedAsMiningCamp | 1859 ⓘ |
| goldDiscoveryYear | 1859 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cemetery
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church ⓘ false-front commercial buildings ⓘ mining structures ⓘ numerous abandoned wooden buildings ⓘ old stamp mills ⓘ preserved main street ⓘ residential houses ⓘ schoolhouse ⓘ |
| hasStatus |
California Historical Landmark
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National Historic Landmark District ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
|
| knownFor |
Old West history
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harsh high-desert climate ⓘ state of arrested decay preservation ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ well-preserved ghost town ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bodie Hills
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California ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Mono County ⓘ eastern Sierra Nevada region ⓘ near California–Nevada border ⓘ |
| majorFireYear |
1892
ⓘ
1932 ⓘ |
| managedBy | California Department of Parks and Recreation ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
W. S. Bodey
ⓘ
William S. Bodey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestTown |
Bridgeport, California
ⓘ
Lee Vining, California ⓘ
linked to:
Lee Vining
|
| openToPublic | yes ⓘ |
| populationPeak | about 8000 to 10000 residents ⓘ |
| populationPeakYearApprox | 1879 ⓘ |
| postOfficeClosed | 1942 ⓘ |
| preservationPolicy | arrested decay ⓘ |
| primaryResourceMined |
gold
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silver ⓘ |
| tourism | popular tourist destination ⓘ |
| winterConditions |
frequent snow
ⓘ
strong winds ⓘ very cold temperatures ⓘ |
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: Bodie (ghost town) Description of subject: Bodie is a well-preserved former gold-mining boomtown in California that is now a famous ghost town and State Historic Park.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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