Rosita, Colorado
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Rosita, Colorado is a historic former silver-mining town in Custer County that is now largely a ghost town and unincorporated community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rosita, Colorado canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4877368 — 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: Rosita, Colorado Context triple: [Custer County, Colorado, containsSettlement, Rosita, Colorado]
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A.
La Veta, Colorado
La Veta, Colorado is a small historic town in southern Colorado known as a gateway to the Spanish Peaks and the scenic Highway of Legends.
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B.
Alamosa, Colorado
Alamosa, Colorado is a small city in the San Luis Valley known as a regional hub for southern Colorado and a gateway to Great Sand Dunes National Park.
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C.
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.
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D.
Aguilar, Colorado
Aguilar, Colorado is a small historic town in southern Colorado that developed as a coal-mining and railroad community.
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E.
Valdez, Colorado
Valdez, Colorado is a small unincorporated community and former coal mining town located in southern Colorado.
- 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: Rosita, Colorado Target entity description: Rosita, Colorado is a historic former silver-mining town in Custer County that is now largely a ghost town and unincorporated community.
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A.
La Veta, Colorado
La Veta, Colorado is a small historic town in southern Colorado known as a gateway to the Spanish Peaks and the scenic Highway of Legends.
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B.
Alamosa, Colorado
Alamosa, Colorado is a small city in the San Luis Valley known as a regional hub for southern Colorado and a gateway to Great Sand Dunes National Park.
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C.
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.
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D.
Aguilar, Colorado
Aguilar, Colorado is a small historic town in southern Colorado that developed as a coal-mining and railroad community.
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E.
Valdez, Colorado
Valdez, Colorado is a small unincorporated community and former coal mining town located in southern Colorado.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ghost town
ⓘ
unincorporated community ⓘ |
| accessibleBy | Custer County Road 328 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Custer County, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countySeatFrom | 1878 ⓘ |
| countySeatUntil | 1886 ⓘ |
| currentUse |
residential area
ⓘ
rural community ⓘ |
| declineCause |
competition from other mining camps
ⓘ
exhaustion of ore bodies ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 2,680 meters
ⓘ
about 8,800 feet ⓘ |
| foundedAs | mining camp ⓘ |
| hasEconomicBasisInHistory | hard-rock mining ⓘ |
| hasHeritageType | Colorado mining history site ⓘ |
| hasHistoricFunction | county seat ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSiteType | historic townsite ⓘ |
| hasPostOfficeStatus | post office discontinued ⓘ |
| hasRemnants |
cemetery
ⓘ
foundations ⓘ scattered buildings ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Wet Mountain Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedSoutheastOf | Westcliffe, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | little rose ⓘ |
| nearbySettlement |
Silver Cliff, Colorado
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Westcliffe, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peakActivityPeriod |
1870s
ⓘ
1880s ⓘ |
| postOfficeClosedIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| primaryResourceMined |
copper
ⓘ
gold ⓘ lead ⓘ silver ⓘ |
| region | south-central Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| status |
ghost town
ⓘ
largely abandoned ⓘ |
| succeededAsCountySeatBy | Silver Cliff, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDaylightSavingTime | −6 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandardTime | −7 ⓘ |
| wasCountySeatOf | Custer County, Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rosita, Colorado Description of subject: Rosita, Colorado is a historic former silver-mining town in Custer County that is now largely a ghost town and unincorporated community.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.