San Rafael
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San Rafael is a city in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, known for its historic downtown and role as a cultural and economic hub of Marin County.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Rafael, California | 23 |
| San Rafael canonical | 8 |
| San Rafael, California, United States | 5 |
| City of San Rafael (across San Pablo Bay) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845046 — 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 Rafael Context triple: [Marin County, countySeat, San Rafael]
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A.
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is a notable wine-producing city in central Chile’s Colchagua Valley, recognized for its vineyards, tourism, and colonial charm.
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Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa is a mid-sized city in Sonoma County known as a cultural and economic hub of California’s wine country.
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Bolinas
Bolinas is a small, unincorporated coastal community in Northern California known for its secluded beaches, artistic residents, and long-standing resistance to tourism and development.
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D.
Point Arena
Point Arena is a small coastal city in Northern California known for its rugged Pacific shoreline, historic lighthouse, and scenic views along the Mendocino County coast.
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E.
Monterey
Monterey is a historic coastal city in Northern California known for its scenic bay, marine life, and former prominence as a sardine-canning and fishing center.
- 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 Rafael Target entity description: San Rafael is a city in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, known for its historic downtown and role as a cultural and economic hub of Marin County.
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A.
Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz is a notable wine-producing city in central Chile’s Colchagua Valley, recognized for its vineyards, tourism, and colonial charm.
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B.
Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa is a mid-sized city in Sonoma County known as a cultural and economic hub of California’s wine country.
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C.
Bolinas
Bolinas is a small, unincorporated coastal community in Northern California known for its secluded beaches, artistic residents, and long-standing resistance to tourism and development.
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D.
Point Arena
Point Arena is a small coastal city in Northern California known for its rugged Pacific shoreline, historic lighthouse, and scenic views along the Mendocino County coast.
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E.
Monterey
Monterey is a historic coastal city in Northern California known for its scenic bay, marine life, and former prominence as a sardine-canning and fishing center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Rafael Description of subject: San Rafael is a city in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in California, known for its historic downtown and role as a cultural and economic hub of Marin County.
Referenced by (37)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California, United States
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San Rafael, California, United States
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California, United States
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California, United States
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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Fairfax, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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Louise Arner Boyd
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San Rafael, California, United States
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
this entity surface form:
City of San Rafael (across San Pablo Bay)
subject surface form:
Novato, California
this entity surface form:
San Rafael, California
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San Rafael, California
this entity surface form:
San Rafael, California