City of Visalia
E671849
The City of Visalia is a central California city in the San Joaquin Valley known as a primary access point to nearby Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| City of Visalia canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7550472 — 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: City of Visalia Context triple: [Gateway to the Sequoias, usedBy, City of Visalia]
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A.
City of Gridley
The City of Gridley is a small agricultural community in Northern California known for its farming economy and rural character.
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B.
City of Yuba City
The City of Yuba City is a small agricultural and commercial hub in Northern California that serves as the county seat of Sutter County.
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C.
City of Ellis
City of Ellis is a small municipal government in Kansas that oversees local services, facilities, and community amenities for the town of Ellis and its residents.
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D.
City of West Sacramento
The City of West Sacramento is a municipality in Northern California located just across the Sacramento River from the state capital, forming part of the Sacramento metropolitan area.
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E.
Spring City
Spring City is the popular nickname of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in China, renowned for its mild, spring-like climate year-round.
- 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: City of Visalia Target entity description: The City of Visalia is a central California city in the San Joaquin Valley known as a primary access point to nearby Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
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A.
City of Gridley
The City of Gridley is a small agricultural community in Northern California known for its farming economy and rural character.
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B.
City of Yuba City
The City of Yuba City is a small agricultural and commercial hub in Northern California that serves as the county seat of Sutter County.
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C.
City of Ellis
City of Ellis is a small municipal government in Kansas that oversees local services, facilities, and community amenities for the town of Ellis and its residents.
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D.
City of West Sacramento
The City of West Sacramento is a municipality in Northern California located just across the Sacramento River from the state capital, forming part of the Sacramento metropolitan area.
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E.
Spring City
Spring City is the popular nickname of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in China, renowned for its mild, spring-like climate year-round.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 559 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision |
western United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Western United States
|
| county | Tulare County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 100 meters
ⓘ
approximately 325 feet ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager ⓘ |
| hasClimate | hot-summer Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | College of the Sequoias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature | proximity to Sierra Nevada foothills ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Downtown Visalia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
food processing ⓘ logistics ⓘ retail ⓘ |
| hasMinorLeagueBaseballTeam | Visalia Rawhide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyNationalPark |
Kings Canyon National Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sequoia National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Gateway to the Sequoias ⓘ |
| hasPublicTransit | Visalia Transit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRiver | near the Kaweah River ⓘ |
| hasSportsTeam | Visalia Rawhide NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Tulare County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isEconomicCenterOf | Tulare County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfMetropolitanArea | Visalia-Porterville metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPrimaryAccessPointTo |
Kings Canyon National Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sequoia National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSeatOf | Tulare County government ⓘ |
| isServedByAirport | Visalia Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central California
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San Joaquin Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
California State Route 198
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California State Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Visalia, Kentucky (disputed origin) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.visalia.city/ ⓘ |
| postalCode |
93277
ⓘ
93291 ⓘ |
| region |
Greater Visalia area
ⓘ
San Joaquin Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| timeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
|
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: City of Visalia Description of subject: The City of Visalia is a central California city in the San Joaquin Valley known as a primary access point to nearby Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.