Sutter's Mill
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Sutter's Mill was a sawmill in Coloma, California, historically significant as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, triggering the California Gold Rush.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sutter’s Mill | 6 |
| Sutter’s Mill site | 4 |
| Sutter's Mill canonical | 2 |
| reconstructed Sutter’s Mill | 2 |
| Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T71047 — 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: Sutter's Mill Context triple: [California Gold Rush, discoverySite, Sutter's Mill]
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A.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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B.
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a mid-19th-century mass migration and mining boom that rapidly transformed California’s population, economy, and statehood after gold was discovered in 1848.
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C.
Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento is a preserved 19th-century riverfront district in California’s capital city, known for its Gold Rush–era buildings, wooden boardwalks, and heritage attractions.
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D.
California Gold
California Gold is a distinctive shade of gold used as one of the official school colors representing the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
El Camino Real
El Camino Real is a historic and major thoroughfare in California that traces the route connecting the state’s early Spanish missions and now serves as a key commercial and commuter corridor through many Peninsula and South Bay 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: Sutter's Mill Target entity description: Sutter's Mill was a sawmill in Coloma, California, historically significant as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, triggering the California Gold Rush.
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A.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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B.
California Gold Rush
The California Gold Rush was a mid-19th-century mass migration and mining boom that rapidly transformed California’s population, economy, and statehood after gold was discovered in 1848.
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C.
Old Sacramento
Old Sacramento is a preserved 19th-century riverfront district in California’s capital city, known for its Gold Rush–era buildings, wooden boardwalks, and heritage attractions.
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D.
California Gold
California Gold is a distinctive shade of gold used as one of the official school colors representing the University of California, Berkeley.
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E.
El Camino Real
El Camino Real is a historic and major thoroughfare in California that traces the route connecting the state’s early Spanish missions and now serves as a key commercial and commuter corridor through many Peninsula and South Bay communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Sutter's Mill Description of subject: Sutter's Mill was a sawmill in Coloma, California, historically significant as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, triggering the California Gold Rush.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Mill
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Mill
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Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
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Sutter’s Mill
this entity surface form:
reconstructed Sutter’s Mill
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Mill site
James W. Marshall Monument at Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
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this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Mill site
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Sutter’s Mill
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Herb Sutter
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Sutter’s Mill
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Mill site
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Mill site
this entity surface form:
reconstructed Sutter’s Mill
this entity surface form:
Sutter’s Mill