Goldstone, California
E221114
Goldstone, California is a remote area in the Mojave Desert best known as the site of NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, a key facility for tracking and communicating with interplanetary spacecraft.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Goldstone, California canonical | 2 |
| Garlock, California | 1 |
| Goldstone, California, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1197528 — 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: Goldstone, California Context triple: [Deep Space Network, location, Goldstone, California]
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A.
Rutherford, California
Rutherford, California is a small community in Napa Valley renowned for its premium wineries and distinctive Cabernet Sauvignon wines.
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B.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
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C.
Sanger, California
Sanger, California is a small agricultural city in Fresno County in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its farming community and proximity to the Kings River.
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D.
Jolon, California
Jolon, California is a small unincorporated community in Monterey County best known as the rural setting of the historic Spanish Mission San Antonio de Padua.
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E.
Stateline, California
Stateline, California is a small unincorporated community on the California–Nevada border near Primm, known primarily as a roadside stop along Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert.
- 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: Goldstone, California Target entity description: Goldstone, California is a remote area in the Mojave Desert best known as the site of NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, a key facility for tracking and communicating with interplanetary spacecraft.
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A.
Rutherford, California
Rutherford, California is a small community in Napa Valley renowned for its premium wineries and distinctive Cabernet Sauvignon wines.
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B.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
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C.
Sanger, California
Sanger, California is a small agricultural city in Fresno County in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its farming community and proximity to the Kings River.
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D.
Jolon, California
Jolon, California is a small unincorporated community in Monterey County best known as the rural setting of the historic Spanish Mission San Antonio de Padua.
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E.
Stateline, California
Stateline, California is a small unincorporated community on the California–Nevada border near Primm, known primarily as a roadside stop along Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
populated place
ⓘ
unincorporated community ⓘ |
| accessedVia | restricted military roads within Fort Irwin ⓘ |
| administeredBy |
San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors
ⓘ
surface form:
San Bernardino County government
|
| climate | arid desert climate ⓘ |
| communicationRole |
supporting deep space telemetry and command links
ⓘ
supporting interplanetary spacecraft tracking ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countrySubdivision |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
State of California
|
| economicActivity |
federal government operations
ⓘ
space communications support services ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 1000 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| environment | sparsely vegetated desert ⓘ |
| environmentalCondition |
clear desert skies
ⓘ
low radio-frequency interference ⓘ |
| geographicFeature | remote desert area ⓘ |
| governingBody | San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode |
442
ⓘ
760 ⓘ |
| hasCoordinateSystem | uses standard GPS coordinates ⓘ |
| hasFunction | supporting deep space communications ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure | antenna complexes and support buildings ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | named after nearby Goldstone mining area ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFacility | Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex ⓘ |
| hasPostalCodeType | ZIP code (served from nearby communities) ⓘ |
| knownFor | Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex ⓘ |
| landUse |
aerospace and communications facilities
ⓘ
federal military reservation ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Mojave Desert ⓘ Mojave Desert ⓘ
surface form:
Mojave Desert region of Southern California
San Bernardino County ⓘ
surface form:
San Bernardino County, California
|
| locatedInPhysiographicRegion | Basin and Range Province ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedWithin | Fort Irwin National Training Center ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Barstow
ⓘ
surface form:
Barstow, California
|
| nearbyInstallation |
Fort Irwin National Training Center
ⓘ
surface form:
Fort Irwin
|
| nearestMajorHighway |
Interstate 15
ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 15 (via Barstow)
|
| nearestTown |
Barstow
ⓘ
surface form:
Barstow, California
|
| partOf | Inyo Mountains and Mojave Desert region infrastructure network ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | very sparsely populated ⓘ |
| primaryUse | space communications support area ⓘ |
| region |
Inland Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Inland Empire (broad regional classification)
|
| regionType | remote ⓘ |
| securityStatus | access restricted due to military and NASA operations ⓘ |
| terrain | high desert ⓘ |
| transportation | no public transportation service ⓘ |
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: Goldstone, California Description of subject: Goldstone, California is a remote area in the Mojave Desert best known as the site of NASA’s Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, a key facility for tracking and communicating with interplanetary spacecraft.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Deep Space Network
this entity surface form:
Goldstone, California, United States
this entity surface form:
Garlock, California