Kit Carson, Colorado
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Kit Carson, Colorado is a small rural town on the Eastern Plains of Colorado that serves as a local agricultural and transportation hub.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kit Carson, Colorado canonical | 2 |
| Kit Carson, Colorado Territory | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9451048 — 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: Kit Carson, Colorado Context triple: [U.S. Route 287, passesThrough, Kit Carson, Colorado]
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A.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
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B.
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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C.
L. M. Kit Carson
L. M. Kit Carson was an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker known for co-writing the film "Paris, Texas" and contributing to the independent cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Red Cashion
Red Cashion was a longtime NFL official best known for his exuberant "First down!" calls and for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls.
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E.
John W. Gunnison
John W. Gunnison was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for surveying routes in the American West before his death during an expedition in Utah.
- 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: Kit Carson, Colorado Target entity description: Kit Carson, Colorado is a small rural town on the Eastern Plains of Colorado that serves as a local agricultural and transportation hub.
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A.
Kit Carson
Kit Carson was a 19th-century American frontiersman, explorer, and military scout renowned for his role in westward expansion and the mapping of the American West.
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B.
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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C.
L. M. Kit Carson
L. M. Kit Carson was an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker known for co-writing the film "Paris, Texas" and contributing to the independent cinema movement of the 1970s and 1980s.
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D.
Red Cashion
Red Cashion was a longtime NFL official best known for his exuberant "First down!" calls and for serving as the referee in multiple Super Bowls.
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E.
John W. Gunnison
John W. Gunnison was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for surveying routes in the American West before his death during an expedition in Utah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | town ⓘ |
| areaCode | 719 ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Cheyenne County, Colorado ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 160 miles east of Denver, Colorado ⓘ |
| economicSector |
crop production
ⓘ
livestock production ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
about 1,300 meters
ⓘ
about 4,265 feet ⓘ |
| governmentType | statutory town ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
grain elevators
ⓘ
railroad facilities ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
farmland
ⓘ
rangeland ⓘ |
| incorporatedIn |
State of Colorado
ⓘ
linked to:
Colorado
|
| locatedIn |
Eastern Plains of Colorado
ⓘ
linked to:
eastern Colorado
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | junction of U.S. Route 40 and U.S. Route 287 ⓘ |
| locatedOn | U.S. Route 40 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Kit Carson ⓘ |
| partOf | rural Colorado communities ⓘ |
| population | about 250 (2020 census) ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear | 2020 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 80825 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ transportation services ⓘ |
| region |
High Plains
ⓘ
linked to:
High Plains region
|
| role |
local agricultural hub
ⓘ
local transportation hub ⓘ |
| state | Colorado ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Mountain Daylight Time
ⓘ
Mountain Standard Time ⓘ |
| transportationMode | highway transport ⓘ |
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: Kit Carson, Colorado Description of subject: Kit Carson, Colorado is a small rural town on the Eastern Plains of Colorado that serves as a local agricultural and transportation hub.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.