Paonia, Colorado, United States
E432829
Paonia, Colorado, United States is a small rural town in western Colorado known for its agricultural roots, arts community, and as the birthplace of ethnobotanist and writer Terence McKenna.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paonia, Colorado, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4363574 — 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: Paonia, Colorado, United States Context triple: [Terence McKenna, placeOfBirth, Paonia, Colorado, United States]
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La Veta, Colorado, United States
La Veta, Colorado, United States is a small historic town in southern Colorado known for its scenic location near the Spanish Peaks and its roots as a 19th-century railroad and ranching community.
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B.
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
Pueblo, Colorado, United States is a mid-sized city in southern Colorado known historically as a steel-producing center and for its diverse cultural heritage.
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C.
Morrison, Colorado
Morrison, Colorado is a small historic town in Jefferson County best known as the gateway to Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre and for its nearby dinosaur fossil sites.
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D.
Gunnison, Colorado
Gunnison, Colorado is a small mountain city in central Colorado known for its outdoor recreation, ranching heritage, and proximity to attractions like Blue Mesa Reservoir and Crested Butte.
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E.
Cortez, Colorado
Cortez, Colorado is a small city in southwestern Colorado known as a gateway to Mesa Verde National Park and the Four Corners region.
- 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: Paonia, Colorado, United States Target entity description: Paonia, Colorado, United States is a small rural town in western Colorado known for its agricultural roots, arts community, and as the birthplace of ethnobotanist and writer Terence McKenna.
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A.
La Veta, Colorado, United States
La Veta, Colorado, United States is a small historic town in southern Colorado known for its scenic location near the Spanish Peaks and its roots as a 19th-century railroad and ranching community.
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B.
Pueblo, Colorado, United States
Pueblo, Colorado, United States is a mid-sized city in southern Colorado known historically as a steel-producing center and for its diverse cultural heritage.
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C.
Morrison, Colorado
Morrison, Colorado is a small historic town in Jefferson County best known as the gateway to Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre and for its nearby dinosaur fossil sites.
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D.
Gunnison, Colorado
Gunnison, Colorado is a small mountain city in central Colorado known for its outdoor recreation, ranching heritage, and proximity to attractions like Blue Mesa Reservoir and Crested Butte.
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E.
Cortez, Colorado
Cortez, Colorado is a small city in southwestern Colorado known as a gateway to Mesa Verde National Park and the Four Corners region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
municipality
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| birthplaceOf | Terence McKenna ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Delta County, Colorado ⓘ |
| hasAgriculturalEconomy | true ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 970 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| hasEconomicSector |
agriculture
ⓘ
arts and culture ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
art galleries
ⓘ
community events ⓘ historic downtown ⓘ local farms ⓘ small-town character ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | statutory town ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Paon (French for peacock) ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 81428 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | UTC−07:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| isLocatedOn |
Colorado Western Slope
ⓘ
linked to:
Western Colorado
|
| isPartOf |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
arts community ⓘ fruit orchards ⓘ local festivals ⓘ music scene ⓘ organic farming ⓘ outdoor recreation ⓘ sustainable living community ⓘ vineyards ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Western Colorado ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | North Fork Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
North Fork of the Gunnison River
ⓘ
linked to:
North Fork Gunnison River
|
| partOf | Delta County, Colorado ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paonia, Colorado ⓘ |
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
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: Paonia, Colorado, United States Description of subject: Paonia, Colorado, United States is a small rural town in western Colorado known for its agricultural roots, arts community, and as the birthplace of ethnobotanist and writer Terence McKenna.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.