Portola, California
E597476
Portola, California is a small city in Plumas County in the Sierra Nevada region, named in honor of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Portola, California canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6392691 — 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: Portola, California Context triple: [Gaspar de Portolá, hasPlaceNamedAfter, Portola, California]
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A.
Dos Palos, California
Dos Palos, California is a small rural city in Merced County in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its agricultural community and farming-based economy.
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B.
Pacheco, California
Pacheco, California is a small unincorporated community in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Contra Costa County, known primarily as a suburban residential area with nearby commercial development.
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C.
Bridgeport, California
Bridgeport, California is a small unincorporated community in the Eastern Sierra region known for its historic courthouse, scenic high-altitude valley, and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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D.
Rio Vista, California
Rio Vista, California is a small city in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta known for its riverside location, boating and fishing, and role as a regional hub along the Sacramento River.
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E.
Coloma, California
Coloma, California is a historic Gold Country town best known as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush.
- 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: Portola, California Target entity description: Portola, California is a small city in Plumas County in the Sierra Nevada region, named in honor of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá.
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A.
Dos Palos, California
Dos Palos, California is a small rural city in Merced County in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its agricultural community and farming-based economy.
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B.
Pacheco, California
Pacheco, California is a small unincorporated community in the San Francisco Bay Area’s Contra Costa County, known primarily as a suburban residential area with nearby commercial development.
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C.
Bridgeport, California
Bridgeport, California is a small unincorporated community in the Eastern Sierra region known for its historic courthouse, scenic high-altitude valley, and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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D.
Rio Vista, California
Rio Vista, California is a small city in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta known for its riverside location, boating and fishing, and role as a regional hub along the Sacramento River.
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E.
Coloma, California
Coloma, California is a historic Gold Country town best known as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| areaCode | 530 ⓘ |
| climateClassification | warm-summer Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Plumas County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countySeatOf | none ⓘ |
| demographicsCategory | small city ⓘ |
| elevation |
1491 meters
ⓘ
4890 feet ⓘ |
| featureType | incorporated place ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 06-58242 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1659240 ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager ⓘ |
| hasNamesake | Portola, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyRecreationArea |
Lake Davis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plumas National Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicService |
Beckwourth Fire District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Portola City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ Portola Police Department NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRailFacility | Western Pacific Railroad Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | May 16, 1946 ⓘ |
| isOnlyInCounty | only incorporated city in Plumas County ⓘ |
| landArea | about 5.4 square miles ⓘ |
| latitude | 39.8107° N ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Northern California
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInMetaregion | Sierra Nevada region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInPhysiographicProvince | Sierra Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Middle Fork Feather River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitude | 120.4691° W ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Gaspar de Portolá NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedForRoleOfNamesake | Spanish explorer ⓘ |
| nearestLargeCity | Reno, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | Spanish explorer ⓘ |
| officialLanguageDeFacto | English ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 2104 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 2104 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 96122 ⓘ |
| region | Sierra Nevada Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionCode | US-CA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| subdivisionOf |
California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Plumas County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
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| transportationRoute | California State Route 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| waterArea | about 0.1 square miles ⓘ |
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: Portola, California Description of subject: Portola, California is a small city in Plumas County in the Sierra Nevada region, named in honor of Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portolá.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.