Golden Spike National Historical Park

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United States national historical park protected area

Golden Spike National Historical Park is a U.S. National Park Service site in northern Utah that preserves and interprets the location where the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Golden Spike National Historical Park canonical	14
Golden Spike National Historic Site	6
Golden Spike National Historical Park (nearby at Promontory Summit)	1
Golden Spike site	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1742222 — 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: Golden Spike National Historical Park
Context triple: [Promontory Summit, Utah Territory, commemoratedBy, Golden Spike National Historical Park]

A. Golden Spike Tower
Golden Spike Tower is an observation tower and visitor attraction in North Platte, Nebraska, offering panoramic views of Union Pacific’s massive Bailey Yard, one of the world’s largest railroad classification yards.
B. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (partial)
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a U.S. national historical park preserving key sites, trails, and stories of the 1897–1898 Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska and the Yukon.
C. Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
Railtown 1897 State Historic Park is a California state park and historic railroad facility preserving vintage trains, a roundhouse, and film-famous locomotives from the Sierra Railway.
D. Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park is a historic site and museum preserving the former home and ranch of showman William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, showcasing his life and legacy on the Great Plains.
E. Bodie State Historic Park
Bodie State Historic Park is a preserved ghost town and former gold-mining boomtown in the Sierra Nevada of California, maintained as a state historic site in arrested decay.
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: Golden Spike National Historical Park
Target entity description: Golden Spike National Historical Park is a U.S. National Park Service site in northern Utah that preserves and interprets the location where the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869.

A. Golden Spike Tower
Golden Spike Tower is an observation tower and visitor attraction in North Platte, Nebraska, offering panoramic views of Union Pacific’s massive Bailey Yard, one of the world’s largest railroad classification yards.
B. Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (partial)
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park is a U.S. national historical park preserving key sites, trails, and stories of the 1897–1898 Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska and the Yukon.
C. Railtown 1897 State Historic Park
Railtown 1897 State Historic Park is a California state park and historic railroad facility preserving vintage trains, a roundhouse, and film-famous locomotives from the Sierra Railway.
D. Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park is a historic site and museum preserving the former home and ranch of showman William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, showcasing his life and legacy on the Great Plains.
E. Bodie State Historic Park
Bodie State Historic Park is a preserved ghost town and former gold-mining boomtown in the Sierra Nevada of California, maintained as a state historic site in arrested decay.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	United States national historical park ⓘ protected area ⓘ
administeredBy	National Park Service ⓘ
associatedWith	Central Pacific Railroad ⓘ First Transcontinental Railroad ⓘ Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ
category	railroad-related historic site ⓘ transportation museum site ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
establishedAsNationalHistoricSite	1965 ⓘ
governingBody	U.S. National Park Service ⓘ linked to: National Park Service
hasCommemoration	golden spike ceremony reenactments ⓘ
hasExhibit	visitor center museum exhibits on railroad history ⓘ
hasFacility	interpretive trails ⓘ visitor center ⓘ
hasHeritageDesignation	National Historic Site ⓘ
hasInterpretiveFocus	Chinese railroad workers ⓘ construction of the transcontinental railroad ⓘ impact of the transcontinental railroad on the United States ⓘ labor history of railroad workers ⓘ
hasLandmark	Last Spike site monument ⓘ
hasOfficialWebsite	https://www.nps.gov/gosp/index.htm ⓘ
hasReplica	replica of the Central Pacific Jupiter locomotive ⓘ replica of the Union Pacific No. 119 locomotive ⓘ
hasStructure	replica railroad tracks at Promontory Summit ⓘ
locatedAt	Promontory Summit, Utah ⓘ linked to: Promontory Summit, Utah Territory
locatedIn	Box Elder County, Utah ⓘ Great Basin region ⓘ linked to: Great Basin Utah ⓘ northern Utah ⓘ
nearestCity	Brigham City, Utah ⓘ Corinne, Utah ⓘ
offersActivity	guided tours ⓘ hiking ⓘ historic railroad reenactments ⓘ
ownedBy	federal government of the United States ⓘ linked to: United States government
partOf	United States National Park System ⓘ
previousName	Golden Spike National Historic Site ⓘ linked to: Golden Spike National Historical Park
purpose	to interpret the history of the First Transcontinental Railroad ⓘ to preserve the site of the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad ⓘ
redesignatedAsNationalHistoricalPark	2019 ⓘ
significantDate	May 10, 1869 ⓘ
significantEvent	completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad ⓘ
theme	19th-century American transportation ⓘ railroad history ⓘ
touristAttraction	yes ⓘ

How these facts were elicited