Fort Garland, Colorado
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Fort Garland, Colorado is a small historic community in southern Colorado known for its 19th-century frontier fort and role in the early settlement of the San Luis Valley.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fort Garland, Colorado canonical | 4 |
| Fort Garland | 3 |
| Fort Garland (frontier fort) | 1 |
| present-day Fort Garland, Colorado | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5151557 — 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: Fort Garland, Colorado Context triple: [Costilla County, Colorado, containsSettlement, Fort Garland, Colorado]
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A.
Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory
Fort Lyon in the Colorado Territory was a 19th-century U.S. Army post on the Arkansas River that played a key role in the Indian Wars and frontier military operations in the American West.
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B.
Fort Carson
Fort Carson is a major U.S. Army installation near Colorado Springs, Colorado, known for hosting key space, infantry, and combat support units.
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C.
Fort Kearny
Fort Kearny was a 19th-century U.S. Army outpost in Nebraska that served as a key way station and protection point for pioneers traveling west along the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
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D.
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Fort Bridger, Wyoming is a historic 19th-century trading post and military outpost in southwestern Wyoming that served as a key resupply and transit point for westward-bound emigrants.
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E.
Alamosa, Colorado
Alamosa, Colorado is a small city in the San Luis Valley known as a regional hub for southern Colorado and a gateway to Great Sand Dunes National Park.
- 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: Fort Garland, Colorado Target entity description: Fort Garland, Colorado is a small historic community in southern Colorado known for its 19th-century frontier fort and role in the early settlement of the San Luis Valley.
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A.
Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory
Fort Lyon in the Colorado Territory was a 19th-century U.S. Army post on the Arkansas River that played a key role in the Indian Wars and frontier military operations in the American West.
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B.
Fort Carson
Fort Carson is a major U.S. Army installation near Colorado Springs, Colorado, known for hosting key space, infantry, and combat support units.
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C.
Fort Kearny
Fort Kearny was a 19th-century U.S. Army outpost in Nebraska that served as a key way station and protection point for pioneers traveling west along the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
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D.
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Fort Bridger, Wyoming is a historic 19th-century trading post and military outpost in southwestern Wyoming that served as a key resupply and transit point for westward-bound emigrants.
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E.
Alamosa, Colorado
Alamosa, Colorado is a small city in the San Luis Valley known as a regional hub for southern Colorado and a gateway to Great Sand Dunes National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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historic community ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode | 719 ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| elevation |
about 2500 meters above sea level
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about 8200 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| governedAs | unincorporated area of Costilla County ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Census-designated places in Colorado
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Historic communities in Colorado ⓘ Populated places in Costilla County, Colorado ⓘ Unincorporated communities in Colorado ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
19th-century frontier fort
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heritage tourism ⓘ historic buildings ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSite |
Fort Garland (frontier fort)
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Garland, Colorado
Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Garland Museum & Cultural Center
|
| hasNearbyMountainRange | Sangre de Cristo Mountains ⓘ |
| hasNearbyTown |
Alamosa, Colorado
ⓘ
Blanca, Colorado ⓘ San Luis, Colorado ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colorado
ⓘ
Costilla County, Colorado ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
San Luis Valley
ⓘ
southern Colorado ⓘ
linked to:
Southern Colorado
|
| locatedOnHighway |
Colorado State Highway 159
ⓘ
U.S. Route 160 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Fort Garland
ⓘ
linked to:
Fort Garland, Colorado
|
| near |
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve
ⓘ
Sangre de Cristo Pass ⓘ |
| partOfStatisticalArea |
San Luis Valley region
ⓘ
linked to:
San Luis Valley
|
| postalCode | 81133 ⓘ |
| roleIn | early settlement of the San Luis Valley ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Mountain Daylight Time ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Fort Garland, Colorado Description of subject: Fort Garland, Colorado is a small historic community in southern Colorado known for its 19th-century frontier fort and role in the early settlement of the San Luis Valley.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Fort Garland, Colorado
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linked to: Fort Garland, Colorado