Los Altos, California, United States
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Los Altos, California, United States is an affluent Silicon Valley suburb in Santa Clara County known for its residential character, excellent schools, and proximity to major tech companies.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Los Altos, California | 9 |
| Los Altos, California, United States canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577869 — 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: Los Altos, California, United States Context triple: [Charles Geschke, residence, Los Altos, California, United States]
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Los Altos Hills, California, United States
Los Altos Hills, California, United States is an affluent, primarily residential town in Silicon Valley known for its large estates, open space, and association with prominent technology and business figures.
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Santa Clara, California, United States
Santa Clara is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley known for its concentration of high-tech companies, including serving as a key hub for the technology industry in the United States.
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Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California is a city in Silicon Valley known as a hub for technology and venture capital, home to major research institutions and tech companies.
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Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States is a Silicon Valley city known as a major technology hub and home to numerous high-profile tech companies.
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San Bruno, California, United States
San Bruno is a small city in San Mateo County, California, best known in recent years as the home of YouTube’s corporate headquarters.
- 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: Los Altos, California, United States Target entity description: Los Altos, California, United States is an affluent Silicon Valley suburb in Santa Clara County known for its residential character, excellent schools, and proximity to major tech companies.
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Los Altos Hills, California, United States
Los Altos Hills, California, United States is an affluent, primarily residential town in Silicon Valley known for its large estates, open space, and association with prominent technology and business figures.
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Santa Clara, California, United States
Santa Clara is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley known for its concentration of high-tech companies, including serving as a key hub for the technology industry in the United States.
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Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California is a city in Silicon Valley known as a hub for technology and venture capital, home to major research institutions and tech companies.
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Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States is a Silicon Valley city known as a major technology hub and home to numerous high-profile tech companies.
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San Bruno, California, United States
San Bruno is a small city in San Mateo County, California, best known in recent years as the home of YouTube’s corporate headquarters.
- 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: Los Altos, California, United States Description of subject: Los Altos, California, United States is an affluent Silicon Valley suburb in Santa Clara County known for its residential character, excellent schools, and proximity to major tech companies.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Los Altos, California
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Los Altos, California
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Los Altos Hills, California
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Los Altos, California
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Los Altos, California
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Los Altos, California
Mountain View–Los Altos Union High School District
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Los Altos, California
Foothill–De Anza Community College District (service area)
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Los Altos, California, United States
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this entity surface form:
Los Altos, California
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Los Altos, California
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Los Altos, California