Los Gatos Canyon
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Los Gatos Canyon is a remote area in California’s Central Valley foothills, historically known as the site of a 1948 plane crash that inspired Woody Guthrie’s protest song “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Los Gatos Canyon canonical | 3 |
| Los Gatos Canyon, California | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9057505 — 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: Los Gatos Canyon Context triple: [Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos), setting, Los Gatos Canyon]
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A.
Wildcat Canyon
Wildcat Canyon is a rugged, scenic valley and open-space area in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, known for its hiking trails, wildlife, and views of the surrounding hills.
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B.
Batopilas Canyon
Batopilas Canyon is a deep, scenic gorge in the Copper Canyon system of Chihuahua, Mexico, known for its historic mining town of Batopilas and dramatic desert-mountain landscapes.
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C.
LeConte Canyon
LeConte Canyon is a scenic glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned among hikers for its dramatic granite walls, alpine meadows, and access to major backcountry trails.
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D.
Las Virgenes Canyon
Las Virgenes Canyon is a scenic natural canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California, known for its hiking trails, wildlife, and preserved open space.
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E.
Urique Canyon
Urique Canyon is one of the deepest and most dramatic gorges in Mexico’s Copper Canyon system, known for its rugged landscapes and remote Tarahumara communities.
- 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: Los Gatos Canyon Target entity description: Los Gatos Canyon is a remote area in California’s Central Valley foothills, historically known as the site of a 1948 plane crash that inspired Woody Guthrie’s protest song “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).”
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A.
Wildcat Canyon
Wildcat Canyon is a rugged, scenic valley and open-space area in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, known for its hiking trails, wildlife, and views of the surrounding hills.
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B.
Batopilas Canyon
Batopilas Canyon is a deep, scenic gorge in the Copper Canyon system of Chihuahua, Mexico, known for its historic mining town of Batopilas and dramatic desert-mountain landscapes.
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C.
LeConte Canyon
LeConte Canyon is a scenic glacial valley in California’s Sierra Nevada, renowned among hikers for its dramatic granite walls, alpine meadows, and access to major backcountry trails.
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D.
Las Virgenes Canyon
Las Virgenes Canyon is a scenic natural canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains of Southern California, known for its hiking trails, wildlife, and preserved open space.
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E.
Urique Canyon
Urique Canyon is one of the deepest and most dramatic gorges in Mexico’s Copper Canyon system, known for its rugged landscapes and remote Tarahumara communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aviation accident
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canyon ⓘ geographic location ⓘ protest song ⓘ |
| addresses | treatment of Mexican migrant workers ⓘ |
| aircraftType | Douglas DC-3 ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Martin Hoffman
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Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
| associatedWithWork |
"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)"
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linked to:
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
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| carried | Mexican farm workers being deported ⓘ |
| composerOfMelody | Martin Hoffman ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| date | January 28, 1948 ⓘ |
| departureAirport |
Oakland, California
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linked to:
Oakland
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| describedAs | remote area in California’s Central Valley foothills ⓘ |
| ecosystem | California chaparral and grassland ⓘ |
| fatalities | 32 ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificance |
site memorialized in American folk music
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symbol of migrant worker struggles in the United States ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Los Gatos Canyon plane crash ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin |
Spanish language
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linked to:
Spanish
|
| hasNotableDate | January 28, 1948 ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
"Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)"
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linked to:
Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)
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| intendedDestination |
El Centro, California
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linked to:
El Centro, California, United States
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| knownFor |
1948 Los Gatos Canyon plane crash
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inspiration for the song "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Central Valley foothills ⓘ
linked to:
Sierra Nevada foothills
Fresno County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Fresno County
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| locatedOn | eastern slope of the Diablo Range ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
"The Cats Canyon" in English
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linked to:
Los Gatos
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| near |
Coalinga, California
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linked to:
Coalinga
Highway 33, California ⓘ
linked to:
California State Route 33
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| occurredIn | Los Gatos Canyon ⓘ |
| operatedBy | Douglas Aircraft Company charter flight ⓘ |
| partOf | Diablo Range canyons ⓘ |
| regionType | rural area ⓘ |
| subject | Los Gatos Canyon plane crash ⓘ |
| terrain | foothills ⓘ |
| writer | Woody Guthrie ⓘ |
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: Los Gatos Canyon Description of subject: Los Gatos Canyon is a remote area in California’s Central Valley foothills, historically known as the site of a 1948 plane crash that inspired Woody Guthrie’s protest song “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos).”
Referenced by (4)
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