San Jose
E1776
San Jose is a major technology and innovation hub in Silicon Valley and one of the largest cities in Northern California.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Jose, California | 134 |
| San Jose canonical | 91 |
| San José, California | 20 |
| City of San Jose | 10 |
| City of San José | 7 |
| San José | 7 |
| San Jose, California, United States | 5 |
| City of San Jose government | 1 |
| Downtown San Jose | 1 |
| municipality of San Jose, California | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1321 — 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 Jose Context triple: [California, hasMajorCity, San Jose]
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A.
San Francisco
San Francisco is a major coastal city in Northern California known for its hilly landscape, iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and role as a historic center of technology and counterculture.
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Sacramento
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California, known for its role as the state’s political center and its historic roots in the Gold Rush era.
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Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a globally renowned technology and innovation hub in Northern California, home to many of the world’s leading tech companies and startups.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a major U.S. metropolis known for its entertainment industry, cultural diversity, and sprawling urban landscape.
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E.
Atherton, California, United States
Atherton, California, United States is an affluent, primarily residential town in Silicon Valley known for its large estates and status as one of the wealthiest communities in the country.
- 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 Jose Target entity description: San Jose is a major technology and innovation hub in Silicon Valley and one of the largest cities in Northern California.
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A.
San Francisco
San Francisco is a major coastal city in Northern California known for its hilly landscape, iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and role as a historic center of technology and counterculture.
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B.
Sacramento
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California, known for its role as the state’s political center and its historic roots in the Gold Rush era.
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C.
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a globally renowned technology and innovation hub in Northern California, home to many of the world’s leading tech companies and startups.
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D.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a major U.S. metropolis known for its entertainment industry, cultural diversity, and sprawling urban landscape.
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E.
Atherton, California, United States
Atherton, California, United States is an affluent, primarily residential town in Silicon Valley known for its large estates and status as one of the wealthiest communities in the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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 Jose Description of subject: San Jose is a major technology and innovation hub in Silicon Valley and one of the largest cities in Northern California.
Referenced by (277)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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City of San Jose
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City of San José
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