Cupertino
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Cupertino is a city in California best known as the longtime headquarters of Apple Inc. and a key hub of the global technology industry.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cupertino, California | 40 |
| Cupertino canonical | 20 |
| Cupertino, California, United States | 14 |
| City of Cupertino, California | 2 |
| Cupertino (Apple headquarters) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22232 — 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: Cupertino Context triple: [Silicon Valley, contains, Cupertino]
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A.
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale is a major Silicon Valley city in Northern California known for its high-tech industry presence and suburban residential communities.
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B.
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
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C.
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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D.
Mountain View
Mountain View is a Silicon Valley city in Northern California best known as a major technology hub and the home of companies like Google.
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E.
San Jose
San Jose is a major technology and innovation hub in Silicon Valley and one of the largest cities in Northern California.
- 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: Cupertino Target entity description: Cupertino is a city in California best known as the longtime headquarters of Apple Inc. and a key hub of the global technology industry.
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A.
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale is a major Silicon Valley city in Northern California known for its high-tech industry presence and suburban residential communities.
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B.
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
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C.
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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D.
Mountain View
Mountain View is a Silicon Valley city in Northern California best known as a major technology hub and the home of companies like Google.
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E.
San Jose
San Jose is a major technology and innovation hub in Silicon Valley and one of the largest cities in Northern California.
- 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: Cupertino Description of subject: Cupertino is a city in California best known as the longtime headquarters of Apple Inc. and a key hub of the global technology industry.
Referenced by (77)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cupertino, California, United States
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Cupertino, California
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Cupertino, California
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Cupertino, California, United States
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Cupertino (Apple headquarters)
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Cupertino, California
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Apple Inc.
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Cupertino, California, United States
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City of Cupertino, California
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Cupertino, California
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Cupertino, California
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Cupertino, California