Madras, Oregon
E627798
Madras, Oregon is a small city in central Oregon known as an agricultural hub and gateway to outdoor recreation in the surrounding high desert region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madras, Oregon canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6912693 — 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: Madras, Oregon Context triple: [Eastern Oregon, hasMajorCity, Madras, Oregon]
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A.
Aumsville, Oregon
Aumsville, Oregon is a small city in the Willamette Valley region of western Oregon, located southeast of Salem.
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B.
McMinnville, Oregon
McMinnville, Oregon is a small city in the Willamette Valley known for its wine country, historic downtown, and annual UFO Festival.
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C.
Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon is the capital city of the U.S. state of Oregon, known as a regional center for government, education, and agriculture in the Willamette Valley.
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D.
White City, Oregon
White City, Oregon is an unincorporated community in southern Oregon known for its proximity to Medford and its mix of residential, industrial, and rural areas.
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E.
Brownsville, Oregon
Brownsville, Oregon is a small historic city in the Willamette Valley known for its 19th-century architecture and as a filming location for the movie "Stand by Me."
- 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: Madras, Oregon Target entity description: Madras, Oregon is a small city in central Oregon known as an agricultural hub and gateway to outdoor recreation in the surrounding high desert region.
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A.
Aumsville, Oregon
Aumsville, Oregon is a small city in the Willamette Valley region of western Oregon, located southeast of Salem.
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B.
McMinnville, Oregon
McMinnville, Oregon is a small city in the Willamette Valley known for its wine country, historic downtown, and annual UFO Festival.
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C.
Salem, Oregon
Salem, Oregon is the capital city of the U.S. state of Oregon, known as a regional center for government, education, and agriculture in the Willamette Valley.
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D.
White City, Oregon
White City, Oregon is an unincorporated community in southern Oregon known for its proximity to Medford and its mix of residential, industrial, and rural areas.
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E.
Brownsville, Oregon
Brownsville, Oregon is a small historic city in the Willamette Valley known for its 19th-century architecture and as a filming location for the movie "Stand by Me."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
human settlement ⓘ |
| areaCode |
458
ⓘ
541 ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| coordinateLatitude | 44.6333 ⓘ |
| coordinateLongitude | -121.1292 ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision |
Pacific Northwest region of the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Northwest
|
| county | Jefferson County, Oregon ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
about 120 miles southeast of Portland, Oregon
ⓘ
about 45 miles north of Bend, Oregon ⓘ |
| economicBase |
agriculture
ⓘ
retail and services for surrounding rural area ⓘ transportation services ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 2244 feet
ⓘ
approximately 684 meters ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Madras City Council
ⓘ
linked to:
Madras city government
|
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Madras Municipal Airport ⓘ |
| hasFacility | Jefferson County Fairgrounds ⓘ |
| hasFeature | views of Cascade Range volcanoes ⓘ |
| hasNearbyLandform |
Cascade Range
ⓘ
High Desert plateau ⓘ
linked to:
Modoc Plateau
|
| hosted | 2017 total solar eclipse viewing events ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1911 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Jefferson County, Oregon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
irrigated farming ⓘ outdoor recreation access ⓘ seed production ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Oregon
ⓘ
High Desert region of Oregon ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Madras, India ⓘ |
| near |
Cove Palisades State Park
ⓘ
linked to:
The Cove Palisades State Park
Deschutes River ⓘ Lake Billy Chinook ⓘ |
| officialLanguageDeFacto | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
United States Pacific Northwest
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Northwest
|
| populationCensus2010 | 6229 ⓘ |
| populationEstimate | around 7000 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 97741 ⓘ |
| region | Jefferson County agricultural region ⓘ |
| servedBy |
U.S. Route 26
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 97 ⓘ |
| state | Oregon ⓘ |
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| transportHubFor | Central Oregon ⓘ |
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: Madras, Oregon Description of subject: Madras, Oregon is a small city in central Oregon known as an agricultural hub and gateway to outdoor recreation in the surrounding high desert region.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.