Taft, California

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Taft, California is a small city in Kern County known historically for its oil industry and its location near the Carrizo Plain in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

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Label Occurrences
Taft, California canonical 3
Taft, California, United States 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
municipality
areaCode 661
country United States of America
surface form: United States
county Kern County
distanceTo approximately 32 miles southwest of Bakersfield
elevation 289 m
948 ft
FIPSCode 06-77510
GNISFeatureID 1652774
hasClimate hot-summer Mediterranean climate
semi-arid characteristics
hasEducationalInstitution Taft College
hasFormerName Moron
Siding No. 2
hasGovernmentType council–manager government
hasLocalEvent Oildorado celebration
surface form: Oildorado Days celebration
hasNearbyProtectedArea Carrizo Plain
surface form: Carrizo Plain National Monument
hasPublicSchoolDistrict Taft City School District
Taft Union High School
surface form: Taft Union High School District
hasUTCOffset UTC−08:00
hasUTCOffsetDST UTC−07:00
incorporatedAsCityOn 1920-11-07
knownFor oil industry
petroleum production
proximity to major oil fields
locatedIn California, United States
surface form: California

Kern County
surface form: Kern County, California

San Joaquin Valley
San Joaquin Valley
surface form: southern San Joaquin Valley
locatedInRegion southern Central Valley
locatedInTimeZone Pacific Time Zone
locatedNear Carrizo Plain
San Andreas Fault
Temblor Range
namedAfter President William Howard Taft
surface form: William Howard Taft
near Buena Vista Oil Field
Cymric Oil Field
Midway-Sunset Oil Field
populationCensus2010 9327
populationEstimate2020 approximately 8300
postalCode 93268
primaryEconomicSector energy industry services
oil and gas extraction
regionCode US-CA
servedByHighway California State Route 119
California State Route 33
state California, United States
surface form: California

How these facts were elicited

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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: Taft, California
Description of subject: Taft, California is a small city in Kern County known historically for its oil industry and its location near the Carrizo Plain in the southern San Joaquin Valley.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Carrizo Plain nearbyCity Taft, California
Elk Hills oil field near Taft, California
Midway-Sunset Oil Field locatedNear Taft, California
Ronald L. Graham placeOfBirth Taft, California
this entity surface form: Taft, California, United States