Madera, California
E825624
Madera, California is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley that serves as the seat of Madera County and a regional center for agriculture and transportation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madera, California canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9842053 — 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, California Context triple: [Madera Amtrak station, locatedIn, Madera, California]
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A.
Mariposa, California
Mariposa, California is a historic Gold Rush-era town in the Sierra Nevada foothills that serves as a gateway community to Yosemite National Park.
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B.
Manteca, California
Manteca, California is a growing Central Valley city known as a regional agricultural and transportation hub between the Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada.
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C.
Calexico, California
Calexico, California is a small border city in Imperial County that serves as a major gateway for trade and travel between the United States and Mexicali, Mexico.
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D.
Guadalupe, California
Guadalupe, California is a small coastal city in Santa Barbara County known for its agricultural community and proximity to the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.
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E.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
- 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, California Target entity description: Madera, California is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley that serves as the seat of Madera County and a regional center for agriculture and transportation.
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A.
Mariposa, California
Mariposa, California is a historic Gold Rush-era town in the Sierra Nevada foothills that serves as a gateway community to Yosemite National Park.
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B.
Manteca, California
Manteca, California is a growing Central Valley city known as a regional agricultural and transportation hub between the Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada.
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C.
Calexico, California
Calexico, California is a small border city in Imperial County that serves as a major gateway for trade and travel between the United States and Mexicali, Mexico.
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D.
Guadalupe, California
Guadalupe, California is a small coastal city in Santa Barbara County known for its agricultural community and proximity to the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.
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E.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| areaCode | 559 ⓘ |
| climate | hot-summer Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Madera County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demographicsCharacteristic | large Hispanic and Latino population ⓘ |
| distanceTo | about 25 miles northwest of Fresno ⓘ |
| elevation |
279 ft
ⓘ
85 m ⓘ |
| foundedAsRailroadTownOn | Southern Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Madera Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool |
Madera High School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madera South High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
nut processing
ⓘ
wine production ⓘ |
| hasRiver | Fresno River (runs through city) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | March 27, 1907 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Madera County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isInAgriculturalRegion | California Central Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Madera metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isSeatOf | Madera County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| localNewspaper | Madera Tribune NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | San Joaquin Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNorthOf | Fresno, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOn | State Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| majorEconomicSector |
agriculture
ⓘ
transportation ⓘ |
| namedFor | Spanish word "madera" meaning "wood" ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | Fresno, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode |
93637
ⓘ
93638 ⓘ |
| primaryCrops |
almonds
ⓘ
dairy products ⓘ grapes ⓘ pistachios ⓘ raisins ⓘ |
| region | Central California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
regional center for agricultural processing
ⓘ
regional center for transportation and logistics ⓘ |
| servedBy | Amtrak San Joaquins (nearby Madera station) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
|
| transportCorridor |
California State Route 145
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California State Route 41 (nearby) NERFINISHED ⓘ California State Route 99 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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, California Description of subject: Madera, California is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley that serves as the seat of Madera County and a regional center for agriculture and transportation.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.