Short Creek community (Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah) prior to arrest
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The Short Creek community, encompassing Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, is a remote, historically insular settlement dominated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), known for its practice of polygamy and strict religious control.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Short Creek community (Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah) prior to arrest canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9626003 — 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: Short Creek community (Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah) prior to arrest Context triple: [Warren Jeffs, residence, Short Creek community (Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah) prior to arrest]
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A.
City Creek (Salt Lake County, Utah)
City Creek is a small mountain stream in Salt Lake County, Utah, that flows from the Wasatch Range through City Creek Canyon into downtown Salt Lake City, providing water, recreation, and scenic value to the area.
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B.
Salt Creek, Colorado
Salt Creek, Colorado is a small unincorporated community located in Pueblo County in southern Colorado.
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C.
Unincorporated community of Naturita, Colorado
Naturita is a small unincorporated community in western Colorado known historically for its role in the region’s uranium and mining industries.
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D.
Woody Creek, Colorado, United States
Woody Creek, Colorado, United States is a small unincorporated community near Aspen best known as the longtime home of journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson.
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E.
Village of Oak Creek, Arizona
Village of Oak Creek, Arizona is an unincorporated community and popular residential and resort area near Sedona, known for its red rock scenery and golf courses in northern Arizona.
- 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: Short Creek community (Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah) prior to arrest Target entity description: The Short Creek community, encompassing Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, is a remote, historically insular settlement dominated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), known for its practice of polygamy and strict religious control.
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A.
City Creek (Salt Lake County, Utah)
City Creek is a small mountain stream in Salt Lake County, Utah, that flows from the Wasatch Range through City Creek Canyon into downtown Salt Lake City, providing water, recreation, and scenic value to the area.
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B.
Salt Creek, Colorado
Salt Creek, Colorado is a small unincorporated community located in Pueblo County in southern Colorado.
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C.
Unincorporated community of Naturita, Colorado
Naturita is a small unincorporated community in western Colorado known historically for its role in the region’s uranium and mining industries.
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D.
Woody Creek, Colorado, United States
Woody Creek, Colorado, United States is a small unincorporated community near Aspen best known as the longtime home of journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson.
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E.
Village of Oak Creek, Arizona
Village of Oak Creek, Arizona is an unincorporated community and popular residential and resort area near Sedona, known for its red rock scenery and golf courses in northern Arizona.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
polygamist settlement
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religious community ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Rulon Jeffs
NERFINISHED
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Warren Jeffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| culturalNorm |
communal religious gatherings
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discouragement of outside media ⓘ separation from mainstream society ⓘ |
| demographics |
high birth rate
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large proportion of children ⓘ predominantly FLDS members ⓘ |
| dominantReligion | FLDS Church NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dressCode |
long hair in braids for women
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long prairie-style dresses for women ⓘ modest clothing ⓘ |
| economy |
FLDS-run businesses
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agriculture ⓘ construction industry ⓘ |
| educationSystem |
FLDS-controlled schools
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religious curriculum ⓘ |
| governedBy |
FLDS Church leadership
NERFINISHED
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FLDS prophet ⓘ |
| historicalName | Short Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| housingPattern |
clustered family compounds
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large multi-family homes ⓘ |
| knownFor |
child marriage allegations
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communal lifestyle ⓘ insularity ⓘ large families ⓘ obedience to FLDS prophet ⓘ polygamy ⓘ religious fundamentalism ⓘ strict religious control ⓘ |
| languageUse | English ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementRelationship |
historically limited outside oversight
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tension with state authorities ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arizona Strip
NERFINISHED
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Colorado City, Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ Hildale, Utah NERFINISHED ⓘ border of Arizona and Utah ⓘ |
| marriagePractice |
arranged marriages
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early-age marriages (alleged) ⓘ plural marriage ⓘ |
| mediaReputation |
polygamist enclave
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secretive community ⓘ |
| partOf | FLDS settlements network NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStructure |
male-dominated hierarchy
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theocratic patriarchy ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | prior to major FLDS leadership arrests ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Short Creek community (Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah) prior to arrest Description of subject: The Short Creek community, encompassing Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah, is a remote, historically insular settlement dominated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), known for its practice of polygamy and strict religious control.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Warren Jeffs
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residence
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Short Creek community (Colorado City, Arizona and Hildale, Utah) prior to arrest
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