California
E795520
"California" is a popular song title most famously associated with the American rock band Phantom Planet, known for its use as the theme song of the television series "The O.C."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9377004 — 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: California Context triple: [Reprise MS 2038, sideBContainsTrack, California]
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A.
California
California is a popular Volkswagen camper van model known for its integrated living amenities and suitability for road trips and outdoor travel.
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B.
Kalifornia
Kalifornia is a 1993 neo-noir road thriller film that follows a journalist couple researching serial killers while unknowingly traveling with one.
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C.
California, United States
California, United States is a large and populous U.S. state on the West Coast known for its diverse geography, major technology and entertainment industries, and cultural and economic influence.
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D.
CA
CA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Canada in international standards and systems.
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E.
CA
CA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Italian city of Cagliari.
- 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: California Target entity description: "California" is a popular song title most famously associated with the American rock band Phantom Planet, known for its use as the theme song of the television series "The O.C."
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A.
California
California is a popular Volkswagen camper van model known for its integrated living amenities and suitability for road trips and outdoor travel.
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B.
Kalifornia
Kalifornia is a 1993 neo-noir road thriller film that follows a journalist couple researching serial killers while unknowingly traveling with one.
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C.
California, United States
California, United States is a large and populous U.S. state on the West Coast known for its diverse geography, major technology and entertainment industries, and cultural and economic influence.
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D.
CA
CA is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code that uniquely identifies Canada in international standards and systems.
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E.
CA
CA is the vehicle registration code used on license plates for the Italian city of Cagliari.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
single
ⓘ
song ⓘ |
| artist | Phantom Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedAct | Phantom Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTelevisionSeries | The O.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
alternative rock
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| hasChorusLine | California, here we come NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComposer | Phantom Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCulturalImpact |
became strongly identified with the series The O.C.
ⓘ
closely associated with early 2000s teen drama television ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
CD single
ⓘ
digital download ⓘ streaming ⓘ |
| hasInstrumentation |
bass guitar
ⓘ
drums ⓘ guitars ⓘ vocals ⓘ |
| hasLivePerformance | performed on television and at concerts by Phantom Planet ⓘ |
| hasLyricist | Alex Greenwald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMusicVideo | California (Phantom Planet song music video) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableCoverVersionBy |
Mates of State
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rogue Wave NERFINISHED ⓘ The OC Mix artists ⓘ |
| hasProducer | Tchad Blake NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
moving to California
ⓘ
starting a new life ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
homecoming
ⓘ
longing for California ⓘ travel ⓘ |
| hasWriter |
Alex Greenwald
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Darren Robinson NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Brautbar NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Schwartzman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Farrar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedInAlbum | The Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | state of California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaFranchise | The O.C. franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the theme song of the television series The O.C. ⓘ |
| originallyReleasedBy | Phantom Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | The O.C. (soundtrack) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performer | Phantom Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performerNationality | American ⓘ |
| recordingArtist | Phantom Planet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Epic Records
ⓘ
Sony Music Entertainment ⓘ
surface form:
Sony Music
|
| title | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAs | theme song of The O.C. ⓘ |
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: California Description of subject: "California" is a popular song title most famously associated with the American rock band Phantom Planet, known for its use as the theme song of the television series "The O.C."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Blue (album)
subject surface form:
"Awaken, My Love!"
subject surface form:
Blue
subject surface form:
Blue
subject surface form:
Laurel Canyon Blvd