Madera
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Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madera canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T371331 — 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: Madera Context triple: [Madera County, hasCountySeat, Madera]
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A.
Salinas
Salinas is a prominent agricultural city in Northern California, often called the "Salad Bowl of the World" and known as the birthplace of author John Steinbeck.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
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D.
Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Merced
Merced is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known as a gateway to Yosemite National Park and home to the University of California, Merced.
- 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: Madera Target entity description: Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
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A.
Salinas
Salinas is a prominent agricultural city in Northern California, often called the "Salad Bowl of the World" and known as the birthplace of author John Steinbeck.
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B.
Pinales
Pinales is the botanical order of coniferous trees and shrubs that includes pines, firs, spruces, and related needle-leaved, cone-bearing plants.
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C.
Sonora
Sonora is a large northwestern Mexican state bordering the United States, known for its desert landscapes, cattle ranching, and significant industrial and agricultural production.
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D.
Sonora
Sonora is a small historic city in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills known for its Gold Rush heritage and role as a regional hub for tourism and outdoor recreation.
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E.
Merced
Merced is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known as a gateway to Yosemite National Park and home to the University of California, Merced.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
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: Madera Description of subject: Madera is a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley known primarily as the administrative and economic center of Madera County.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
California State Route 99