Mad River, California
E672220
Mad River, California is a small unincorporated community in Trinity County known for its rural setting along the Mad River in Northern California.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mad River, California canonical | 2 |
| Mad River (California) | 1 |
| Mad River region, California | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7544382 — 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: Mad River, California Context triple: [California State Route 36, serves, Mad River, California]
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A.
Smith River, California
Smith River, California is a small unincorporated community in the far northwestern corner of the state, near the Oregon border and the Pacific coast.
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B.
Lee Vining Creek
Lee Vining Creek is a Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows east into Mono Lake, providing a key source of freshwater to the Mono Basin ecosystem.
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C.
New River (California)
New River is a tributary stream in Northern California that flows through the Klamath Mountains and contributes to the Trinity River system.
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D.
Tule River
The Tule River is a river in California’s southern Sierra Nevada that flows westward through agricultural lands before contributing water to the Tulare Basin.
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E.
Mariposa Creek
Mariposa Creek is a stream in central California notable for its early Spanish exploration history and association with the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Mariposa.
- 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: Mad River, California Target entity description: Mad River, California is a small unincorporated community in Trinity County known for its rural setting along the Mad River in Northern California.
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A.
Smith River, California
Smith River, California is a small unincorporated community in the far northwestern corner of the state, near the Oregon border and the Pacific coast.
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B.
Lee Vining Creek
Lee Vining Creek is a Sierra Nevada stream in California that flows east into Mono Lake, providing a key source of freshwater to the Mono Basin ecosystem.
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C.
New River (California)
New River is a tributary stream in Northern California that flows through the Klamath Mountains and contributes to the Trinity River system.
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D.
Tule River
The Tule River is a river in California’s southern Sierra Nevada that flows westward through agricultural lands before contributing water to the Tulare Basin.
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E.
Mariposa Creek
Mariposa Creek is a stream in central California notable for its early Spanish exploration history and association with the Sierra Nevada foothill town of Mariposa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode | 707 ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Trinity County, California ⓘ |
| elevation |
2870 ft
ⓘ
875 m ⓘ |
| governingBody | Trinity County government ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
forested surroundings
ⓘ
mountainous terrain ⓘ river valley setting ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
forestry
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ residential ⓘ |
| isCensusDesignatedPlace | false ⓘ |
| isRural | true ⓘ |
| locatedAlongHighway |
State Route 36 (California)
ⓘ
linked to:
California State Route 36
|
| locatedEastOf | Eureka, California ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Northern California ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver |
Mad River (California)
ⓘ
linked to:
Mad River, California
|
| locatedWestOf |
Redding, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Redding
|
| postalCode | 95552 ⓘ |
| region | Trinity County, California ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific 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: Mad River, California Description of subject: Mad River, California is a small unincorporated community in Trinity County known for its rural setting along the Mad River in Northern California.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mad River, California
linked to: Mad River, California