Kaltag, Alaska
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Kaltag, Alaska is a small, predominantly Alaska Native village on the Yukon River known for subsistence lifestyles and its role as a checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kaltag, Alaska canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10901882 — 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: Kaltag, Alaska Context triple: [Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, contains, Kaltag, Alaska]
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A.
Talkeetna, Alaska
Talkeetna, Alaska is a small Alaskan town that serves as a major gateway and staging point for mountaineers and flightseeing tours into the Alaska Range, including Denali.
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B.
Kasigluk, Alaska
Kasigluk, Alaska is a small, predominantly Yup'ik Alaska Native village in western Alaska known for its subsistence lifestyle and location along the Johnson River.
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C.
McGrath, Alaska
McGrath, Alaska is a small, remote village in central Alaska that serves as a regional hub and checkpoint along the Iditarod Trail in the Kuskokwim River valley.
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D.
Kipnuk, Alaska
Kipnuk, Alaska is a small, predominantly Yup'ik Alaska Native village in western Alaska known for its subsistence lifestyle and location along the Bering Sea coast.
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E.
Shishmaref, Alaska
Shishmaref, Alaska is a small Inupiat village on a barrier island in the Chukchi Sea, known for severe coastal erosion and being emblematic of climate change–driven relocation challenges in Arctic communities.
- 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: Kaltag, Alaska Target entity description: Kaltag, Alaska is a small, predominantly Alaska Native village on the Yukon River known for subsistence lifestyles and its role as a checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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A.
Talkeetna, Alaska
Talkeetna, Alaska is a small Alaskan town that serves as a major gateway and staging point for mountaineers and flightseeing tours into the Alaska Range, including Denali.
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B.
Kasigluk, Alaska
Kasigluk, Alaska is a small, predominantly Yup'ik Alaska Native village in western Alaska known for its subsistence lifestyle and location along the Johnson River.
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C.
McGrath, Alaska
McGrath, Alaska is a small, remote village in central Alaska that serves as a regional hub and checkpoint along the Iditarod Trail in the Kuskokwim River valley.
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D.
Kipnuk, Alaska
Kipnuk, Alaska is a small, predominantly Yup'ik Alaska Native village in western Alaska known for its subsistence lifestyle and location along the Bering Sea coast.
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E.
Shishmaref, Alaska
Shishmaref, Alaska is a small Inupiat village on a barrier island in the Chukchi Sea, known for severe coastal erosion and being emblematic of climate change–driven relocation challenges in Arctic communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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human settlement ⓘ village ⓘ |
| areaCode | 907 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| elevationInFeet | 98 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 30 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 02-37260 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1404030 ⓘ |
| hasClimate | subarctic climate ⓘ |
| hasDST | Alaska Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
subsistence fishing
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subsistence gathering ⓘ subsistence hunting ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalStatus | city (Alaska) ⓘ |
| hasTransportationMode |
river boat
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small aircraft ⓘ snowmachine ⓘ |
| isCheckpointOn | Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
location on Yukon River
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predominantly Alaska Native population ⓘ subsistence lifestyle ⓘ |
| isLocatedEastOf | Nome, Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isLocatedWestOf | Fairbanks, Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Unorganized Borough, Alaska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| latitude | 64.3275° N ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Alaska
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Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Alaska Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Yukon River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitude | 158.7211° W ⓘ |
| populationAsOf | 2020 ⓘ |
| populationTotal | 158 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 99748 ⓘ |
| predominantIndigenousGroup | Koyukon Athabascan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionalRegionOf | Koyukon people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Kaltag, Alaska Description of subject: Kaltag, Alaska is a small, predominantly Alaska Native village on the Yukon River known for subsistence lifestyles and its role as a checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.