Modoc
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The Modoc are a Native American people traditionally from the area around the California–Oregon border, known for their resistance during the 19th-century Modoc War.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Modoc canonical | 6 |
| Modoc Nation | 2 |
| Modoc Nation lands | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2268498 — 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: Modoc Context triple: [Modoc War, ethnicGroupInvolved, Modoc]
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A.
Zunheboto
Zunheboto is a town in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, known as the headquarters of the Sumi Naga community and for its hilly terrain and rich tribal culture.
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B.
Winnemucca
Winnemucca is a small city in north-central Nevada known as a regional hub for ranching, mining, and transportation along Interstate 80.
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C.
Elko
Elko is a small city in northeastern Nevada known as a regional hub for ranching, mining, and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Modoc Plateau
The Modoc Plateau is a high, volcanic tableland in northeastern California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, characterized by lava flows, sagebrush steppe, and scattered forests.
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E.
Moab
Moab is an ancient kingdom located east of the Dead Sea, frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a neighboring land to Israel.
- 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: Modoc Target entity description: The Modoc are a Native American people traditionally from the area around the California–Oregon border, known for their resistance during the 19th-century Modoc War.
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A.
Zunheboto
Zunheboto is a town in the northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, known as the headquarters of the Sumi Naga community and for its hilly terrain and rich tribal culture.
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B.
Winnemucca
Winnemucca is a small city in north-central Nevada known as a regional hub for ranching, mining, and transportation along Interstate 80.
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C.
Elko
Elko is a small city in northeastern Nevada known as a regional hub for ranching, mining, and outdoor recreation.
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D.
Modoc Plateau
The Modoc Plateau is a high, volcanic tableland in northeastern California and adjacent parts of Oregon and Nevada, characterized by lava flows, sagebrush steppe, and scattered forests.
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E.
Moab
Moab is an ancient kingdom located east of the Dead Sea, frequently mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a neighboring land to Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Modoc Description of subject: The Modoc are a Native American people traditionally from the area around the California–Oregon border, known for their resistance during the 19th-century Modoc War.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Modoc Nation
this entity surface form:
Modoc Nation
this entity surface form:
Modoc Nation lands