El Palo Alto tree
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El Palo Alto tree is an ancient coastal redwood in Palo Alto, California, historically significant as a landmark for early Spanish explorers and the namesake of the city.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| El Palo Alto tree canonical | 2 |
| El Palo Alto redwood tree | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1020238 — 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: El Palo Alto tree Context triple: [Palo Alto, California, isHomeTo, El Palo Alto tree]
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A.
Stanford Tree
The Stanford Tree is the unofficial, whimsical and often irreverent costumed mascot of Stanford University’s marching band, known for its ever-changing, student-designed tree costume.
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B.
Franklin Tree
Franklin Tree is a notable giant sequoia located in the Giant Forest of California’s Sequoia National Park.
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C.
McKinley Tree
The McKinley Tree is a notable giant sequoia in California’s Giant Forest, recognized as one of the largest and most impressive trees in the world.
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D.
The President Tree
The President Tree is one of the largest and oldest known giant sequoia trees in California’s Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park.
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E.
Washington Tree
Washington Tree is a notable giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest, once among the largest trees in the world before suffering major fire damage.
- 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: El Palo Alto tree Target entity description: El Palo Alto tree is an ancient coastal redwood in Palo Alto, California, historically significant as a landmark for early Spanish explorers and the namesake of the city.
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A.
Stanford Tree
The Stanford Tree is the unofficial, whimsical and often irreverent costumed mascot of Stanford University’s marching band, known for its ever-changing, student-designed tree costume.
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B.
Franklin Tree
Franklin Tree is a notable giant sequoia located in the Giant Forest of California’s Sequoia National Park.
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C.
McKinley Tree
The McKinley Tree is a notable giant sequoia in California’s Giant Forest, recognized as one of the largest and most impressive trees in the world.
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D.
The President Tree
The President Tree is one of the largest and oldest known giant sequoia trees in California’s Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park.
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E.
Washington Tree
Washington Tree is a notable giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park’s Giant Forest, once among the largest trees in the world before suffering major fire damage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
coast redwood
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historic tree ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| age |
estimated between 1,000 and 2,000 years
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over 1,000 years ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
El Camino Real (California)
ⓘ
surface form:
El Camino Real historic route
Portolá expedition ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish Portolá expedition
early Spanish explorers in Alta California ⓘ |
| CaliforniaHistoricalLandmarkNumber | 2 ⓘ |
| city |
Palo Alto, California
ⓘ
surface form:
Palo Alto
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| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
iconic symbol of the San Francisco Peninsula
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tourist attraction in Palo Alto ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 30 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| hasCondition | declining health compared to historical state ⓘ |
| hasConservationStatus | protected local landmark ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | California Historical Landmark ⓘ |
| hasIrrigation | supplemental watering system ⓘ |
| hasLighting | nighttime illumination for visibility ⓘ |
| hasSupportStructure | cabling and bracing to support branches ⓘ |
| height |
approximately 110 feet
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significantly shorter than its historical maximum height ⓘ |
| historicalMaximumHeight | over 200 feet ⓘ |
| isNamesakeOf |
City of Palo Alto
ⓘ
Palo Alto High School ⓘ
surface form:
Palo Alto High School mascot "The Tree"
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| locatedIn |
Palo Alto, California
ⓘ
Santa Clara County ⓘ
surface form:
Santa Clara County, California
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| locatedNear |
Caltrain railroad tracks
ⓘ
El Camino Real ⓘ |
| locatedOn | bank of San Francisquito Creek ⓘ |
| managedBy |
City of Palo Alto
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Palo Alto Public Works Department ⓘ |
| partOf | El Palo Alto Park ⓘ |
| significance |
namesake of the city of Palo Alto
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served as a landmark for early Spanish explorers ⓘ symbol of Palo Alto used in city seal and logo ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
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| subjectOf |
arboricultural studies
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local conservation efforts ⓘ |
| taxon |
California redwood
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surface form:
Sequoia sempervirens
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| threatenedBy |
air pollution
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changes in water table ⓘ railroad construction impacts ⓘ |
| trunkDiameter | approximately 8 feet ⓘ |
| usedIn |
emblem of Palo Alto High School
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emblem of Stanford University student publications historically ⓘ logo of the City of Palo Alto ⓘ seal of the City of Palo Alto ⓘ |
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: El Palo Alto tree Description of subject: El Palo Alto tree is an ancient coastal redwood in Palo Alto, California, historically significant as a landmark for early Spanish explorers and the namesake of the city.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
El Palo Alto redwood tree