CA
E232784
CA is the two-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of California.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| CA canonical | 11 |
| US-CA | 3 |
| Cal | 1 |
| California | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2073743 — 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: CA Context triple: [SJC, hasTwoLetterStateCode, CA]
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A.
CA
CA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Canada in international standards and systems.
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B.
CAL
CAL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify China Airlines in international aviation operations.
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C.
LA
LA is the standard abbreviation for the Lord Advocate, the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland.
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D.
LA
LA is the IATA airline designator used by LATAM Airlines Group, a major South American airline conglomerate.
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E.
LA
LA is the postcode area covering Lancaster and surrounding parts of north-west England, including parts of Cumbria and Lancashire.
- 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: CA Target entity description: CA is the two-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of California.
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A.
CA
CA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Canada in international standards and systems.
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B.
CAL
CAL is the ICAO airline designator used to identify China Airlines in international aviation operations.
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C.
LA
LA is the IATA airline designator used by LATAM Airlines Group, a major South American airline conglomerate.
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D.
LA
LA is the standard abbreviation for the Lord Advocate, the chief legal officer of the Scottish Government and the Crown in Scotland.
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E.
LA
LA is the postcode area covering Lancaster and surrounding parts of north-west England, including parts of Cumbria and Lancashire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
U.S. postal abbreviation
ⓘ
state abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
state-level jurisdiction
ⓘ
subnational entity ⓘ |
| associatedCapital | Sacramento ⓘ |
| associatedCountrySubdivisionCode |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
US-CA
|
| associatedLargestCity | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| associatedRegion |
West Coast of the United States
ⓘ
surface form:
West Coast
|
| associatedTimeZone |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Time
|
| codeStandard | USPS state abbreviations ⓘ |
| codeType | two-letter code ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| denotes |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
the U.S. state of California
|
| firstLetter | C ⓘ |
| format | all caps Latin letters ⓘ |
| introducedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| letterCount | 2 ⓘ |
| notToBeConfusedWith |
California ISO code US-CA
ⓘ
Canada country code CA ⓘ |
| refersTo |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| secondLetter | A ⓘ |
| usedFor |
address standardization
ⓘ
forms and databases ⓘ postal sorting ⓘ state identification in codes ⓘ |
| usedIn |
U.S. mail addressing
ⓘ
United States Postal Service ⓘ ZIP code addressing ⓘ |
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: CA Description of subject: CA is the two-letter U.S. postal abbreviation for the state of California.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
US-CA
this entity surface form:
US-CA
this entity surface form:
Cal
subject surface form:
Anaheim
this entity surface form:
US-CA