I am trying to obtain information about an entity with EntityValue[]. However, I keep getting an error message. I get the same error message when I run the examples for EntityValue[] in the documentation. Here are the particulars:

My code:

myCity = EntityValue[First[RandomSample[CityData[{Large, "Washington", "UnitedStates"}], 1]], "Name"]

Simpler test:

EntityValue[Entity["City", {"Everett", "Washington", "UnitedStates"}], "Name"]

Example from docs:

EntityValue[Entity["Bridge", "GoldenGateBridge::j6798"], "LongestSpan"]

All of these are returning this error message:

$CharacterEncoding::charcode: CloudObject`ToCharacterEncoding[TEXT/PLAIN,ISO8859-1] is not a valid character encoding. Possible settings are the names given by $CharacterEncodings or None. >>

Followed by this error message:

Import::charcode: CloudObject`ToCharacterEncoding[TEXT/PLAIN,ISO8859-1] is not a valid character encoding. Possible settings are the names given by $CharacterEncodings or None. >>

The function then fails to return the entity property. I am working on a Mac running OS X 10.10.5 using Wolfram Desktop. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. If someone could clue me in, I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance,

Mark Greenberg