San Marcos
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San Marcos is a suburban city in northern San Diego County, California, known for its growing residential communities and educational institutions such as California State University San Marcos.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Marcos canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1224604 — 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: San Marcos Context triple: [San Diego County, contains, San Marcos]
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San Marcos
San Marcos is a city in western Guatemala that serves as the capital of the San Marcos Department near the country’s highest peak, Volcán Tajumulco.
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San Marcos
San Marcos is a city that maintains an official twinning partnership with Biel/Bienne in Switzerland, reflecting cultural and municipal cooperation between the two communities.
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San Antonio
San Antonio was one of the ships in Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition fleet that participated in the first circumnavigation attempt of the globe.
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San Antonio
San Antonio is a large, historic city in south-central Texas known for the Alamo, the River Walk, and its rich blend of Mexican and Texan culture.
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E.
Edinburg
Edinburg is a small rural town in Saratoga County, New York, known for its scenic setting near the Great Sacandaga Lake and the southern Adirondacks.
- 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: San Marcos Target entity description: San Marcos is a suburban city in northern San Diego County, California, known for its growing residential communities and educational institutions such as California State University San Marcos.
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A.
San Marcos
San Marcos is a city in western Guatemala that serves as the capital of the San Marcos Department near the country’s highest peak, Volcán Tajumulco.
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B.
San Marcos
San Marcos is a city that maintains an official twinning partnership with Biel/Bienne in Switzerland, reflecting cultural and municipal cooperation between the two communities.
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C.
San Antonio
San Antonio is a large, historic city in south-central Texas known for the Alamo, the River Walk, and its rich blend of Mexican and Texan culture.
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D.
San Antonio
San Antonio was one of the ships in Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition fleet that participated in the first circumnavigation attempt of the globe.
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E.
Edinburg
Edinburg is a small rural town in Saratoga County, New York, known for its scenic setting near the Great Sacandaga Lake and the southern Adirondacks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: San Marcos Description of subject: San Marcos is a suburban city in northern San Diego County, California, known for its growing residential communities and educational institutions such as California State University San Marcos.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Central Texas
subject surface form:
California State University San Marcos
subject surface form:
State Route 78 (California)