Calico, California

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Calico, California is a historic former silver mining town in the Mojave Desert that now operates as a preserved ghost town and tourist attraction.

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Label	Occurrences
Calico, California canonical	4

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18220034 — 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: Calico, California
Context triple: [Road Agent, narrativeSetting, Calico, California]

A. Calexico, California
Calexico, California is a small border city in Imperial County that serves as a major gateway for trade and travel between the United States and Mexicali, Mexico.
B. Los Gatos, California
Los Gatos, California is an affluent town in Santa Clara County at the edge of Silicon Valley, known for its historic downtown, high quality of life, and role as the longtime headquarters of Netflix.
C. Colfax, California
Colfax, California is a small historic Gold Rush–era town in Placer County known as a former railroad hub in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
D. Colma, California
Colma, California is a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area best known for its numerous cemeteries and the fact that the dead vastly outnumber the living residents.
E. Cressey, California
Cressey, California is a small unincorporated rural community in Merced County in California’s Central Valley.
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: Calico, California
Target entity description: Calico, California is a historic former silver mining town in the Mojave Desert that now operates as a preserved ghost town and tourist attraction.

A. Calexico, California
Calexico, California is a small border city in Imperial County that serves as a major gateway for trade and travel between the United States and Mexicali, Mexico.
B. Los Gatos, California
Los Gatos, California is an affluent town in Santa Clara County at the edge of Silicon Valley, known for its historic downtown, high quality of life, and role as the longtime headquarters of Netflix.
C. Colfax, California
Colfax, California is a small historic Gold Rush–era town in Placer County known as a former railroad hub in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
D. Colma, California
Colma, California is a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area best known for its numerous cemeteries and the fact that the dead vastly outnumber the living residents.
E. Cressey, California
Cressey, California is a small unincorporated rural community in Merced County in California’s Central Valley.
F. None of above. chosen