Downieville, California
E848249
Downieville, California is a historic former Gold Rush town in the Sierra Nevada known for its preserved 19th-century character and popular outdoor recreation opportunities like mountain biking and fishing.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Downieville, California canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10151781 — 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: Downieville, California Context triple: [California State Route 49, passesThrough, Downieville, California]
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A.
Markleeville, California
Markleeville, California is a small unincorporated mountain community in Alpine County known as a gateway to the Sierra Nevada and nearby outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
McKinleyville, California
McKinleyville, California is an unincorporated coastal community in Humboldt County known for its proximity to redwood forests, beaches, and serving as a regional residential and commercial hub in Northern California.
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C.
Lee Vining
Lee Vining is a small Eastern Sierra town in California known as a gateway to Yosemite National Park and the nearby Mono Lake.
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D.
Forestville, California
Forestville, California is a small unincorporated community in Sonoma County known for its proximity to the Russian River, local wineries, and redwood forests.
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E.
Weaverville, California
Weaverville, California is a historic Gold Rush-era town in Trinity County known for its preserved 19th-century architecture and proximity to outdoor recreation in the Trinity Alps region.
- 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: Downieville, California Target entity description: Downieville, California is a historic former Gold Rush town in the Sierra Nevada known for its preserved 19th-century character and popular outdoor recreation opportunities like mountain biking and fishing.
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A.
Markleeville, California
Markleeville, California is a small unincorporated mountain community in Alpine County known as a gateway to the Sierra Nevada and nearby outdoor recreation areas.
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B.
McKinleyville, California
McKinleyville, California is an unincorporated coastal community in Humboldt County known for its proximity to redwood forests, beaches, and serving as a regional residential and commercial hub in Northern California.
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C.
Lee Vining
Lee Vining is a small Eastern Sierra town in California known as a gateway to Yosemite National Park and the nearby Mono Lake.
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D.
Forestville, California
Forestville, California is a small unincorporated community in Sonoma County known for its proximity to the Russian River, local wineries, and redwood forests.
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E.
Weaverville, California
Weaverville, California is a historic Gold Rush-era town in Trinity County known for its preserved 19th-century architecture and proximity to outdoor recreation in the Trinity Alps region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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county seat ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode | 530 ⓘ |
| areaLand | 3.1 square miles ⓘ |
| areaTotal |
3.2 square miles
ⓘ
8.3 square kilometers ⓘ |
| areaWater | 0.1 square miles ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Sierra County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation |
2949 feet
ⓘ
899 meters ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 06-20146 ⓘ |
| foundedAsMiningCamp | 1849 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 262872 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Sierra County Board of Supervisors NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Downieville Classic mountain bike race NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite |
Downieville Museum
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sierra County Courthouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRecreationArea | Downieville Downhill mountain bike trail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalEra | California Gold Rush NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Sierra County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Gold Rush-era buildings
ⓘ
fly fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ historic downtown ⓘ mountain biking ⓘ preserved 19th-century character ⓘ whitewater kayaking ⓘ |
| locatedAtConfluenceOf |
Downie River
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Yuba River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Sierra Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Northern California
ⓘ
Sierra County Gold Country NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | William Downie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestLargeCity |
Nevada City, California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Truckee, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 282 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | 290 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 95936 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivities |
outdoor recreation
ⓘ
service industry ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| servedAs | major Gold Rush mining town ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
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| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
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surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
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| transportationRoute | California State Route 49 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: Downieville, California Description of subject: Downieville, California is a historic former Gold Rush town in the Sierra Nevada known for its preserved 19th-century character and popular outdoor recreation opportunities like mountain biking and fishing.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.