Japanese American community in Colma
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The Japanese American community in Colma is a historically rooted group whose presence is closely tied to the town’s role as a burial place for San Francisco’s Japanese Americans, centered around the Japanese Cemetery and related cultural and memorial traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Japanese American community in Colma canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4713497 — 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: Japanese American community in Colma Context triple: [Japanese Cemetery (Colma, California), associatedWith, Japanese American community in Colma]
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A.
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center is a major hub in Los Angeles dedicated to preserving and promoting Japanese and Japanese American arts, culture, and community life.
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B.
Japantown, San Francisco
Japantown, San Francisco is a historic Japanese-American neighborhood known for its cultural festivals, shops, restaurants, and the Japan Center complex.
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C.
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles is a historic downtown neighborhood that serves as one of the largest and most significant Japanese American cultural and commercial centers in the United States.
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D.
San Pedro community of Los Angeles
The San Pedro community of Los Angeles is a historic harbor neighborhood at the southern end of the city, best known as a working-class coastal area centered around the busy Port of Los Angeles.
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E.
Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum is a Los Angeles-based institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and sharing the history and culture of Japanese Americans.
- 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: Japanese American community in Colma Target entity description: The Japanese American community in Colma is a historically rooted group whose presence is closely tied to the town’s role as a burial place for San Francisco’s Japanese Americans, centered around the Japanese Cemetery and related cultural and memorial traditions.
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A.
Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
The Japanese American Cultural & Community Center is a major hub in Los Angeles dedicated to preserving and promoting Japanese and Japanese American arts, culture, and community life.
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B.
Japantown, San Francisco
Japantown, San Francisco is a historic Japanese-American neighborhood known for its cultural festivals, shops, restaurants, and the Japan Center complex.
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C.
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles is a historic downtown neighborhood that serves as one of the largest and most significant Japanese American cultural and commercial centers in the United States.
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D.
San Pedro community of Los Angeles
The San Pedro community of Los Angeles is a historic harbor neighborhood at the southern end of the city, best known as a working-class coastal area centered around the busy Port of Los Angeles.
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E.
Japanese American National Museum
The Japanese American National Museum is a Los Angeles-based institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and sharing the history and culture of Japanese Americans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese American community
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ethnic community ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Japanese American organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| associatedWithActivity |
ancestor veneration
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memorial traditions ⓘ visitation of graves ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Japanese Cemetery section of Colma cemeteries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemorates |
Japanese American ancestors buried in Colma
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Japanese Americans who died in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalFocus |
commemoration of deceased Japanese Americans
ⓘ
maintenance of Japanese American burial sites ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance | symbolic center of Japanese American ancestral ties in the Bay Area ⓘ |
| demographicCharacteristic | primarily descendants of Japanese immigrants to the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| developedDueTo | Colma’s role as burial place for San Francisco’s Japanese Americans ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCentralInstitution | Japanese Cemetery in Colma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunityType |
diaspora community
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heritage community ⓘ |
| hasCulturalPractice |
annual cemetery visits
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cleaning and tending of family grave plots ⓘ placement of offerings at graves ⓘ |
| hasHeritageType | Japanese American heritage ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRoot | early 20th-century Japanese immigration to San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition |
Buddhist memorial practices
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Shinto-influenced memorial practices ⓘ |
| hasSpatialFocus | cemetery grounds rather than residential concentration in Colma ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | historically rooted community ⓘ |
| historicalFunction | regional burial center for Japanese Americans from San Francisco ⓘ |
| historicallyLinkedTo |
Japanese Cemetery in Colma
NERFINISHED
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San Francisco Japanese American community ⓘ burial practices of Japanese Americans in San Francisco ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Japanese ⓘ |
| linkedToCity | San Francisco, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedToEvent | Japanese American internment during World War II ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Colma, California
NERFINISHED
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San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ San Mateo County, California ⓘ |
| memoryCulture | collective remembrance of Japanese American history in San Francisco and Colma ⓘ |
| observes |
Japanese-style grave visitation days
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memorial days for war dead and ancestors ⓘ |
| partOf | Japanese American communities in the San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Japanese Cemetery in Colma
NERFINISHED
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other ethnic cemeteries in Colma ⓘ |
| socialRole |
guardian of Japanese American burial heritage in Colma
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maintainer of Japanese American memorial customs in Colma ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Japanese American community in Colma Description of subject: The Japanese American community in Colma is a historically rooted group whose presence is closely tied to the town’s role as a burial place for San Francisco’s Japanese Americans, centered around the Japanese Cemetery and related cultural and memorial traditions.
Referenced by (1)
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subject surface form:
Japanese Cemetery (Colma, California)