Owyhee County, Idaho
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Owyhee County, Idaho is a large, sparsely populated county in southwestern Idaho known for its rugged high-desert landscapes, ranching, and outdoor recreation areas such as the Owyhee Canyonlands.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Owyhee County, Idaho canonical | 13 |
| Owyhee County | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5571337 — 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: Owyhee County, Idaho Context triple: [Twin Falls County, Idaho, borders, Owyhee County, Idaho]
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A.
Canyon County, Idaho
Canyon County, Idaho is a rapidly growing county in southwestern Idaho that includes cities like Nampa and Caldwell and forms part of the Boise metropolitan area.
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B.
Shoshone County
Shoshone County is a largely rural county in northern Idaho known for its mountainous terrain, historic mining communities, and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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C.
Bonneville County, Idaho
Bonneville County, Idaho is an eastern Idaho county centered on the city of Idaho Falls and known for its role as a regional economic and population hub near the Snake River.
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D.
Butte County, Idaho
Butte County, Idaho is a sparsely populated county in eastern Idaho known for hosting the Idaho National Laboratory, a major U.S. nuclear research facility.
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E.
Custer County, Idaho
Custer County, Idaho is a sparsely populated, mountainous county in central Idaho known for containing much of the Salmon-Challis National Forest and some of the highest peaks in the state, including Borah Peak.
- 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: Owyhee County, Idaho Target entity description: Owyhee County, Idaho is a large, sparsely populated county in southwestern Idaho known for its rugged high-desert landscapes, ranching, and outdoor recreation areas such as the Owyhee Canyonlands.
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A.
Canyon County, Idaho
Canyon County, Idaho is a rapidly growing county in southwestern Idaho that includes cities like Nampa and Caldwell and forms part of the Boise metropolitan area.
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B.
Shoshone County
Shoshone County is a largely rural county in northern Idaho known for its mountainous terrain, historic mining communities, and outdoor recreation opportunities.
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C.
Bonneville County, Idaho
Bonneville County, Idaho is an eastern Idaho county centered on the city of Idaho Falls and known for its role as a regional economic and population hub near the Snake River.
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D.
Butte County, Idaho
Butte County, Idaho is a sparsely populated county in eastern Idaho known for hosting the Idaho National Laboratory, a major U.S. nuclear research facility.
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E.
Custer County, Idaho
Custer County, Idaho is a sparsely populated, mountainous county in central Idaho known for containing much of the Salmon-Challis National Forest and some of the highest peaks in the state, including Borah Peak.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
administrative division
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county ⓘ |
| areaCharacteristic | one of the largest counties in Idaho by land area ⓘ |
| borders |
Ada County, Idaho
NERFINISHED
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Canyon County, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Elko County, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ Elmore County, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Humboldt County, Nevada NERFINISHED ⓘ Malheur County, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Twin Falls County, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsProtectedArea |
Big Jacks Creek Wilderness
NERFINISHED
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Bruneau–Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness (Idaho portion) NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Jacks Creek Wilderness NERFINISHED ⓘ North Fork Owyhee Wilderness NERFINISHED ⓘ Owyhee Canyonlands NERFINISHED ⓘ Owyhee River Wilderness (Idaho portion) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| containsSettlement |
Bruneau, Idaho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Grand View, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Homedale, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Jordan Valley, Oregon (service area connection) NERFINISHED ⓘ Marsing, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ Murphy, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Murphy, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
livestock production ⓘ mining ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 16073 ⓘ |
| geography |
Owyhee Canyonlands
NERFINISHED
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Owyhee Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Owyhee River NERFINISHED ⓘ high-desert landscape ⓘ |
| GNISID | 00400588 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cattle grazing
ⓘ
outdoor recreation ⓘ ranching ⓘ |
| largestCity |
Homedale, Idaho
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marsing, Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Idaho
ⓘ
Southwestern Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Owyhee Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Owyhee River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| outdoorRecreation |
camping
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ hiking ⓘ hunting ⓘ rafting ⓘ |
| partOf | State of Idaho NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | sparsely populated ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Owyhee County, Idaho Description of subject: Owyhee County, Idaho is a large, sparsely populated county in southwestern Idaho known for its rugged high-desert landscapes, ranching, and outdoor recreation areas such as the Owyhee Canyonlands.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Owyhee County
subject surface form:
Malheur County, Oregon
this entity surface form:
Owyhee County