Colfax County, New Mexico
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Colfax County, New Mexico is a rural county in northeastern New Mexico known for its mountainous landscapes, outdoor recreation, and historic ties to mining and the Santa Fe Trail.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colfax County, New Mexico canonical | 21 |
| Dorsey County, New Mexico (historical) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2959860 — 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: Colfax County, New Mexico Context triple: [Schuyler Colfax, honoredIn, Colfax County, New Mexico]
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Roosevelt County, New Mexico
Roosevelt County, New Mexico is a largely rural county in eastern New Mexico known for its agricultural economy and anchored by the city of Portales as its county seat.
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B.
Sandoval County, New Mexico
Sandoval County, New Mexico is a diverse county in north-central New Mexico that includes parts of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, several Native American pueblos, and notable natural and historic sites such as Bandelier National Monument.
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C.
Lincoln County, New Mexico
Lincoln County, New Mexico is a rural county in south-central New Mexico known historically for the Lincoln County War and its association with Billy the Kid.
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McKinley County, New Mexico
McKinley County, New Mexico is a largely rural county in the northwestern part of the state, known for its significant Native American population, rich archaeological heritage, and portions of the Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo.
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E.
Lea County, New Mexico
Lea County, New Mexico is a largely rural county in southeastern New Mexico known for its significant oil and gas production and agriculture-based economy.
- 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: Colfax County, New Mexico Target entity description: Colfax County, New Mexico is a rural county in northeastern New Mexico known for its mountainous landscapes, outdoor recreation, and historic ties to mining and the Santa Fe Trail.
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A.
Roosevelt County, New Mexico
Roosevelt County, New Mexico is a largely rural county in eastern New Mexico known for its agricultural economy and anchored by the city of Portales as its county seat.
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B.
Sandoval County, New Mexico
Sandoval County, New Mexico is a diverse county in north-central New Mexico that includes parts of the Albuquerque metropolitan area, several Native American pueblos, and notable natural and historic sites such as Bandelier National Monument.
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C.
Lincoln County, New Mexico
Lincoln County, New Mexico is a rural county in south-central New Mexico known historically for the Lincoln County War and its association with Billy the Kid.
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D.
McKinley County, New Mexico
McKinley County, New Mexico is a largely rural county in the northwestern part of the state, known for its significant Native American population, rich archaeological heritage, and portions of the Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo.
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E.
Lea County, New Mexico
Lea County, New Mexico is a largely rural county in southeastern New Mexico known for its significant oil and gas production and agriculture-based economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Colfax County, New Mexico Description of subject: Colfax County, New Mexico is a rural county in northeastern New Mexico known for its mountainous landscapes, outdoor recreation, and historic ties to mining and the Santa Fe Trail.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
San Miguel County
subject linked to:
Union County
subject linked to:
city of Raton, New Mexico
subject linked to:
city of Raton, New Mexico
linked to: Colfax County, New Mexico
subject linked to:
Dawson, New Mexico, United States
subject linked to:
Springer, New Mexico, United States
subject linked to:
Springer, New Mexico, United States