La Honda, California
E1020559
La Honda, California is a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County best known as the 1960s home base of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a focal point of early psychedelic counterculture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Honda, California canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13080248 — 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: La Honda, California Context triple: [Merry Pranksters, baseOfOperations, La Honda, California]
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A.
Hillsborough, California
Hillsborough, California is an affluent, primarily residential town on the San Francisco Peninsula known for its large estates, wooded hills, and high-ranking public schools.
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B.
Nice, California
Nice, California is a small lakeside community on the north shore of Clear Lake in Northern California known for its scenic views and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Duarte, California
Duarte, California is a small suburban city in Los Angeles County known for its location along historic Route 66 at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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D.
Hiouchi, California
Hiouchi, California is a small unincorporated community in far northwestern California, known as a gateway to the redwood forests and scenic Smith River area.
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E.
Los Olivos, California
Los Olivos, California is a small, upscale community in Santa Barbara County known for its wineries, scenic countryside, and association with Michael Jackson’s former Neverland Ranch.
- 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: La Honda, California Target entity description: La Honda, California is a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County best known as the 1960s home base of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a focal point of early psychedelic counterculture.
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A.
Hillsborough, California
Hillsborough, California is an affluent, primarily residential town on the San Francisco Peninsula known for its large estates, wooded hills, and high-ranking public schools.
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B.
Nice, California
Nice, California is a small lakeside community on the north shore of Clear Lake in Northern California known for its scenic views and outdoor recreation.
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C.
Duarte, California
Duarte, California is a small suburban city in Los Angeles County known for its location along historic Route 66 at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains.
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D.
Hiouchi, California
Hiouchi, California is a small unincorporated community in far northwestern California, known as a gateway to the redwood forests and scenic Smith River area.
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E.
Los Olivos, California
Los Olivos, California is a small, upscale community in Santa Barbara County known for its wineries, scenic countryside, and association with Michael Jackson’s former Neverland Ranch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode | 650 ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | San Mateo County, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
approximately 30 miles southwest of Palo Alto
ⓘ
approximately 40 miles south of San Francisco ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 1000 feet
ⓘ
approximately 300 meters ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1658810 ⓘ |
| governedBy | San Mateo County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | La Honda Elementary School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature | La Honda Creek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyMountainRange | Santa Cruz Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyProtectedArea |
La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pescadero Creek County Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam McDonald County Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableGroup | Merry Pranksters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableResident | Ken Kesey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSettlement | rural community ⓘ |
| historicalEraOfNotability | 1960s ⓘ |
| knownFor |
LSD-era Acid Tests gatherings
ⓘ
Merry Pranksters home base in the 1960s ⓘ association with Ken Kesey ⓘ early psychedelic counterculture activities ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
San Francisco Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ United States West Coast ⓘ western San Mateo County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Pescadero Creek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Santa Cruz Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | California State Route 84 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestIncorporatedCity | Half Moon Bay, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestInlandCity | Redwood City, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | unincorporated area of San Mateo County ⓘ |
| postalCode | 94020 ⓘ |
| regionCode | US-CA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| transportationRoute | California State Route 84 (La Honda Road) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetDaylightSavingTime | UTC−07:00 ⓘ |
| UTCOffsetStandardTime | UTC−08:00 ⓘ |
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: La Honda, California Description of subject: La Honda, California is a small unincorporated community in San Mateo County best known as the 1960s home base of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, a focal point of early psychedelic counterculture.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.