Humboldt County, Nevada
E106561
Humboldt County, Nevada is a sparsely populated county in northwestern Nevada known for its high-desert landscapes, mining history, and notable gemstone deposits including the Virgin Valley black fire opal.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Humboldt County, Nevada canonical | 43 |
| Humboldt Co., NV | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T768578 — 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: Humboldt County, Nevada Context triple: [Virgin Valley black fire opal, associatedWithLocality, Humboldt County, Nevada]
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A.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
Esmeralda County, Nevada is a sparsely populated rural county in western Nevada known for its historic mining towns and desert landscapes.
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B.
Douglas County, Nevada
Douglas County, Nevada is a county in western Nevada known for encompassing part of Lake Tahoe’s shoreline, scenic Zephyr Cove, and a mix of alpine and high-desert landscapes.
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C.
Lander County, Nevada
Lander County, Nevada is a sparsely populated rural county in central Nevada known for its vast high-desert landscapes, mining history, and location along U.S. Route 50.
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D.
Lincoln County, Nevada
Lincoln County, Nevada is a sparsely populated county in southeastern Nevada known for its vast desert landscapes, mountain ranges, and proximity to areas associated with military testing and UFO lore.
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E.
Eureka County, Nevada
Eureka County, Nevada is a sparsely populated rural county in central Nevada known for its historic mining towns and remote stretches of U.S. Route 50.
- 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: Humboldt County, Nevada Target entity description: Humboldt County, Nevada is a sparsely populated county in northwestern Nevada known for its high-desert landscapes, mining history, and notable gemstone deposits including the Virgin Valley black fire opal.
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A.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
Esmeralda County, Nevada is a sparsely populated rural county in western Nevada known for its historic mining towns and desert landscapes.
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B.
Douglas County, Nevada
Douglas County, Nevada is a county in western Nevada known for encompassing part of Lake Tahoe’s shoreline, scenic Zephyr Cove, and a mix of alpine and high-desert landscapes.
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C.
Lander County, Nevada
Lander County, Nevada is a sparsely populated rural county in central Nevada known for its vast high-desert landscapes, mining history, and location along U.S. Route 50.
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D.
Lincoln County, Nevada
Lincoln County, Nevada is a sparsely populated county in southeastern Nevada known for its vast desert landscapes, mountain ranges, and proximity to areas associated with military testing and UFO lore.
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E.
Eureka County, Nevada
Eureka County, Nevada is a sparsely populated rural county in central Nevada known for its historic mining towns and remote stretches of U.S. Route 50.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
ⓘ
county ⓘ |
| areaCode | 775 ⓘ |
| borders |
Elko County
ⓘ
surface form:
Elko County, Nevada
Idaho ⓘ Lander County, Nevada ⓘ Oregon ⓘ Pershing County ⓘ
surface form:
Pershing County, Nevada
Washoe County ⓘ
surface form:
Washoe County, Nevada
|
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Black Rock Desert
ⓘ
surface form:
Black Rock Desert (part)
Humboldt River ⓘ Jackson Mountains ⓘ Pueblo Mountains ⓘ Santa Rosa Range ⓘ Virgin Valley, Nevada ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | Nevada ⓘ |
| countySeat | Winnemucca ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
mining ⓘ ranching ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 32013 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 0850790 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasResource |
Virgin Valley black fire opal
ⓘ
gold deposits ⓘ opal deposits ⓘ silver deposits ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Virgin Valley black fire opal
ⓘ
gemstone deposits ⓘ high-desert landscapes ⓘ mining history ⓘ sparsely populated area ⓘ |
| largestCity | Winnemucca ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Nevada
ⓘ
United States West ⓘ northwestern Nevada ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Alexander von Humboldt
ⓘ
Humboldt River ⓘ |
| partOf |
Great Basin
ⓘ
Intermountain West ⓘ
surface form:
United States Interior West
|
| postalAbbreviation | NV ⓘ |
| region | northwestern Nevada high desert ⓘ |
| seat | Winnemucca ⓘ |
| state | Nevada ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
|
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: Humboldt County, Nevada Description of subject: Humboldt County, Nevada is a sparsely populated county in northwestern Nevada known for its high-desert landscapes, mining history, and notable gemstone deposits including the Virgin Valley black fire opal.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Humboldt County, Nevada
this entity surface form:
Humboldt Co., NV
subject surface form:
Blue Lakes (Pine Forest Range)
subject surface form:
Blue Lakes (Pine Forest Range)
subject surface form:
Paradise Valley, Nevada