Minden, Nevada
E201774
Minden, Nevada is a small unincorporated town in western Nevada known as a historic community in the Carson Valley near the Sierra Nevada.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minden, Nevada canonical | 12 |
| Minden | 1 |
| Minden, Nevada, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1219135 — 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: Minden, Nevada Context triple: [Douglas County, Nevada, countySeat, Minden, Nevada]
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A.
Hawthorne, Nevada
Hawthorne, Nevada is a small town in western Nevada known as the gateway to the scenic Walker Lake and for its long-standing military ordnance depot.
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B.
Fallon, Nevada
Fallon, Nevada is a small city in western Nevada known for its agricultural community, nearby Naval Air Station Fallon, and location along the historic “Loneliest Road in America.”
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C.
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson, Nevada is a major suburban city in the Las Vegas metropolitan area known for its rapid growth, master-planned communities, and proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.
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D.
Stateline, Nevada
Stateline, Nevada is a small resort town on the south shore of Lake Tahoe known for its casinos, hotels, and outdoor recreation at the California–Nevada border.
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E.
Pahrump, Nevada
Pahrump, Nevada is a small desert town in Nye County known as a gateway community to Death Valley National Park and the surrounding Mojave Desert 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: Minden, Nevada Target entity description: Minden, Nevada is a small unincorporated town in western Nevada known as a historic community in the Carson Valley near the Sierra Nevada.
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A.
Hawthorne, Nevada
Hawthorne, Nevada is a small town in western Nevada known as the gateway to the scenic Walker Lake and for its long-standing military ordnance depot.
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B.
Fallon, Nevada
Fallon, Nevada is a small city in western Nevada known for its agricultural community, nearby Naval Air Station Fallon, and location along the historic “Loneliest Road in America.”
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C.
Henderson, Nevada
Henderson, Nevada is a major suburban city in the Las Vegas metropolitan area known for its rapid growth, master-planned communities, and proximity to the Las Vegas Strip.
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D.
Stateline, Nevada
Stateline, Nevada is a small resort town on the south shore of Lake Tahoe known for its casinos, hotels, and outdoor recreation at the California–Nevada border.
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E.
Pahrump, Nevada
Pahrump, Nevada is a small desert town in Nye County known as a gateway community to Death Valley National Park and the surrounding Mojave Desert region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
ⓘ
unincorporated town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 775 ⓘ |
| climateClassification | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Douglas County, Nevada ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture in surrounding Carson Valley
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
approximately 1,430 meters
ⓘ
approximately 4,700 feet ⓘ |
| foundedBy | H. F. Dangberg Jr. ⓘ |
| governmentType | unincorporated town government under Douglas County ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | German-American settlement influence ⓘ |
| knownFor |
historic downtown core
ⓘ
historic planned town layout ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Carson Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Gardnerville, Nevada
ⓘ
Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedOn | eastern side of the Sierra Nevada ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf |
Carson City
ⓘ
surface form:
Carson City, Nevada
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| namedAfter | Minden, Germany ⓘ |
| nearbyWaterBody |
Carson River
ⓘ
surface form:
Carson River (region)
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| partOf | Carson City–Minden–Gardnerville, Nevada micropolitan area ⓘ |
| postalCode | 89423 ⓘ |
| region | western Nevada ⓘ |
| role | county seat of Douglas County, Nevada ⓘ |
| state | Nevada ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
near Minden–Tahoe Airport
ⓘ
served by U.S. Route 395 ⓘ |
| usesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
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: Minden, Nevada Description of subject: Minden, Nevada is a small unincorporated town in western Nevada known as a historic community in the Carson Valley near the Sierra Nevada.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Douglas County, Nevada
subject surface form:
Douglas County, Nevada
subject surface form:
Western Nevada
this entity surface form:
Minden
subject surface form:
Donald D. Engen
this entity surface form:
Minden, Nevada, United States