Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Los Alamos, New Mexico is a small town in northern New Mexico best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb and a historic center of U.S. nuclear research.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Los Alamos, New Mexico canonical | 55 |
| Los Alamos | 24 |
| Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States | 9 |
| Los Alamos County, New Mexico | 5 |
| Los Alamos townsite | 5 |
| Los Alamos County | 1 |
| Los Alamos Ranch School site | 1 |
| Los Alamos, New Mexico vicinity | 1 |
| city of Los Alamos | 1 |
| town of Los Alamos | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17943 — 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 Alamos, New Mexico Context triple: [Manhattan Project, mainSiteLocation, Los Alamos, New Mexico]
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A.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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D.
Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina is a major city in the Research Triangle region known for Duke University, a strong research and tech economy, and a rich civil rights and tobacco-industry history.
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E.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas is a major metropolitan city in northern Texas known for its role as a commercial and cultural hub, particularly in finance, technology, and telecommunications.
- 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 Alamos, New Mexico Target entity description: Los Alamos, New Mexico is a small town in northern New Mexico best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb and a historic center of U.S. nuclear research.
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A.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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C.
Delano
Delano is the middle name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States.
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D.
Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina is a major city in the Research Triangle region known for Duke University, a strong research and tech economy, and a rich civil rights and tobacco-industry history.
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E.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas is a major metropolitan city in northern Texas known for its role as a commercial and cultural hub, particularly in finance, technology, and telecommunications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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county seat ⓘ town ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Bandelier National Monument
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Santa Fe National Forest ⓘ |
| areaCode | 505 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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U.S. Department of Energy ⓘ |
| climate | continental high-desert climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| county |
Los Alamos, New Mexico
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Los Alamos County
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| daylightSavingTimeZone |
Mountain Time Zone
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surface form:
Mountain Daylight Time
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| demographicsFeature |
high median household income compared to U.S. average
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high proportion of residents with advanced degrees ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 35 miles northwest of Santa Fe ⓘ |
| economicBase |
federal government employment
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scientific research ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 7,300 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| foundedAs |
Los Alamos, New Mexico
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Los Alamos Ranch School site
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| governmentType | county government (combined city-county) ⓘ |
| hasAttraction |
Bradbury Science Museum
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Los Alamos Historical Museum ⓘ Manhattan Project National Historical Park (Los Alamos unit) ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Los Alamos High School
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University of New Mexico Los Alamos branch campus ⓘ |
| hasResearchInstitution |
Los Alamos Laboratory
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surface form:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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| historicalEvent | site of Manhattan Project laboratory ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | World War II ⓘ |
| is | county seat of Los Alamos County ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Los Alamos Laboratory
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surface form:
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Manhattan Project ⓘ U.S. nuclear research ⓘ birthplace of the atomic bomb ⓘ |
| languageMajority | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jemez Mountains region
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Pajarito Plateau ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northern New Mexico ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Los Alamos Ranch School ⓘ |
| near | Santa Fe, New Mexico ⓘ |
| postalCode |
87544
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87545 ⓘ |
| role |
major center of U.S. national security research
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major center of U.S. nuclear weapons research ⓘ |
| secondaryLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| state | New Mexico ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
New Mexico State Road 4
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New Mexico State Road 502 ⓘ |
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 Alamos, New Mexico Description of subject: Los Alamos, New Mexico is a small town in northern New Mexico best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb and a historic center of U.S. nuclear research.
Referenced by (103)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos townsite
subject surface form:
Katherine Oppenheimer
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Los Alamos
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Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
town of Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos, New Mexico vicinity
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos townsite
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this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
subject surface form:
Louis Slotin
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos
subject surface form:
Guaje Pines Cemetery
subject surface form:
Guaje Pines Cemetery
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos townsite
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
this entity surface form:
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States