Raton
E290812
Raton is a small city in northeastern New Mexico known as a historic railroad and mining community near the Colorado border and Raton Pass.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2701930 — 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: Raton Context triple: [Northern New Mexico, hasMajorCity, Raton]
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A.
Carvallo
Carvallo is a surname, likely a variant of Carvajal, found in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions.
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B.
Acamas
Acamas is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a son of the Athenian hero Theseus who took part in events surrounding the Trojan War.
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C.
Salida
Salida is an unincorporated community in California’s Central Valley, located near Modesto in Stanislaus County.
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D.
Tocopilla
Tocopilla is a coastal city and port in northern Chile known for its mining industry and location on the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Carneros
Carneros is a cool-climate wine region in California, renowned for producing high-quality Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
- 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: Raton Target entity description: Raton is a small city in northeastern New Mexico known as a historic railroad and mining community near the Colorado border and Raton Pass.
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A.
Carvallo
Carvallo is a surname, likely a variant of Carvajal, found in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking regions.
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B.
Acamas
Acamas is a figure in Greek mythology, traditionally known as a son of the Athenian hero Theseus who took part in events surrounding the Trojan War.
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C.
Salida
Salida is an unincorporated community in California’s Central Valley, located near Modesto in Stanislaus County.
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D.
Tocopilla
Tocopilla is a coastal city and port in northern Chile known for its mining industry and location on the Pacific Ocean.
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E.
Carneros
Carneros is a cool-climate wine region in California, renowned for producing high-quality Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| borderWith | Colorado ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| elevationType | high-elevation city ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | small city in a mountainous area ⓘ |
| hasEconomicHistory |
coal mining
ⓘ
railroad services ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandmark | Raton Pass ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | railroad ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
mining community
ⓘ
railroad community ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Colfax County, New Mexico ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coal mining history
ⓘ
historic railroad heritage ⓘ proximity to Raton Pass ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colfax County, New Mexico
ⓘ
New Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | northeastern New Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Colorado
ⓘ
Raton Pass ⓘ |
| locatedOn | historic travel route through Raton Pass ⓘ |
| partOf |
southwestern United States
ⓘ
surface form:
American Southwest
|
| state | New Mexico ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Raton Description of subject: Raton is a small city in northeastern New Mexico known as a historic railroad and mining community near the Colorado border and Raton Pass.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.