Colorado State Penitentiary
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Colorado State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison in Colorado that houses some of the state’s most dangerous offenders.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colorado State Penitentiary canonical | 2 |
| Cañon City prison complex | 1 |
| Colorado State Penitentiary, Cañon City, Colorado, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4935175 — 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: Colorado State Penitentiary Context triple: [Fremont County, Colorado, contains, Colorado State Penitentiary]
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A.
Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility
Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility is a long-standing state prison in Colorado that houses adult male inmates and serves as part of the Colorado Department of Corrections system.
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B.
United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth is a historic federal prison in Kansas known for housing some of the most notorious American criminals of the 20th century.
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C.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Oklahoma State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Oklahoma that houses some of the state’s most serious offenders and includes Oklahoma’s death row and execution chamber.
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D.
Oregon State Penitentiary
Oregon State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison in Salem, Oregon, and the oldest correctional institution in the state.
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E.
Arizona State Prison
Arizona State Prison is a state-run correctional facility in Arizona that houses convicted offenders, including historically notable inmates such as Ernesto Arturo Miranda of the landmark Miranda v. Arizona case.
- 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: Colorado State Penitentiary Target entity description: Colorado State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison in Colorado that houses some of the state’s most dangerous offenders.
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A.
Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility
Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility is a long-standing state prison in Colorado that houses adult male inmates and serves as part of the Colorado Department of Corrections system.
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B.
United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth
United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth is a historic federal prison in Kansas known for housing some of the most notorious American criminals of the 20th century.
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C.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
Oklahoma State Penitentiary is a maximum-security state prison in Oklahoma that houses some of the state’s most serious offenders and includes Oklahoma’s death row and execution chamber.
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D.
Oregon State Penitentiary
Oregon State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison in Salem, Oregon, and the oldest correctional institution in the state.
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E.
Arizona State Prison
Arizona State Prison is a state-run correctional facility in Arizona that houses convicted offenders, including historically notable inmates such as Ernesto Arturo Miranda of the landmark Miranda v. Arizona case.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
maximum-security prison
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prison ⓘ |
| category |
correctional facility in Colorado
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state prison in the United States ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| function | incarceration of adult male offenders ⓘ |
| genderOfInmates | male ⓘ |
| governingBody |
State of Colorado
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linked to:
Colorado
|
| hasFacilityType |
restrictive housing units
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segregation units ⓘ |
| hasPurpose |
public safety
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secure confinement of high-risk inmates ⓘ |
| hasSecurityFeatures |
armed security
ⓘ
controlled movement of inmates ⓘ perimeter fencing ⓘ |
| hasStaffType |
administrative staff
ⓘ
correctional officers ⓘ medical staff ⓘ mental health staff ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfIncarceration |
closed custody
ⓘ
maximum custody ⓘ |
| inmateProfile |
high-risk offenders
ⓘ
long-term offenders ⓘ violent offenders ⓘ |
| inmateType | adult offenders ⓘ |
| isPublicInstitution | true ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of Colorado
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linked to:
Colorado
|
| languageOfAdministration | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cañon City, Colorado
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linked to:
Cañon City
Fremont County, Colorado ⓘ |
| near |
Arkansas River
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Royal Gorge region ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Gorge Region
|
| operatedBy | Colorado Department of Corrections ⓘ |
| ownedBy |
State of Colorado
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linked to:
Colorado
|
| partOf |
Cañon City prison complex
ⓘ
linked to:
Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility
|
| regionServed | Colorado ⓘ |
| securityClass | maximum ⓘ |
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
legal challenges related to inmate treatment
ⓘ
news reports on prison conditions ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Colorado state law
ⓘ
U.S. constitutional standards on incarceration ⓘ |
| usedFor |
housing of Colorado’s most dangerous offenders
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long-term incarceration ⓘ |
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: Colorado State Penitentiary Description of subject: Colorado State Penitentiary is a maximum-security prison in Colorado that houses some of the state’s most dangerous offenders.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Colorado State Penitentiary
Edward Capehart O’Kelley
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imprisonedAt
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Colorado State Penitentiary, Cañon City, Colorado, United States
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linked to: Colorado State Penitentiary