Santa Clara, California, United States

E117268

city

Santa Clara is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley known for its concentration of high-tech companies, including serving as a key hub for the technology industry in the United States.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Santa Clara, California	80
Santa Clara, California, United States canonical	12
City of Santa Clara, California	2
city of Santa Clara	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T165414 — 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: Santa Clara, California, United States
Context triple: [Oracle Corporation, foundedInCity, Santa Clara, California, United States]

A. San Bruno, California, United States
San Bruno is a small city in San Mateo County, California, best known in recent years as the home of YouTube’s corporate headquarters.
B. Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California is a city in Silicon Valley known as a hub for technology and venture capital, home to major research institutions and tech companies.
C. Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
D. Redwood City, California
Redwood City, California is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Silicon Valley, known for its historic downtown and role as the county seat of San Mateo County.
E. Los Altos Hills, California, United States
Los Altos Hills, California, United States is an affluent, primarily residential town in Silicon Valley known for its large estates, open space, and association with prominent technology and business figures.
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: Santa Clara, California, United States
Target entity description: Santa Clara is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley known for its concentration of high-tech companies, including serving as a key hub for the technology industry in the United States.

A. San Bruno, California, United States
San Bruno is a small city in San Mateo County, California, best known in recent years as the home of YouTube’s corporate headquarters.
B. Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California is a city in Silicon Valley known as a hub for technology and venture capital, home to major research institutions and tech companies.
C. Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
D. Redwood City, California
Redwood City, California is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Silicon Valley, known for its historic downtown and role as the county seat of San Mateo County.
E. Los Altos Hills, California, United States
Los Altos Hills, California, United States is an affluent, primarily residential town in Silicon Valley known for its large estates, open space, and association with prominent technology and business figures.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ
areaCode	408 ⓘ 669 ⓘ
areaLandKm2	approximately 46 ⓘ
areaTotalKm2	approximately 47 ⓘ
areaWaterKm2	approximately 1 ⓘ
borders	Cupertino ⓘ surface form: Cupertino, California, United States Milpitas, California, United States ⓘ San Jose, California, United States ⓘ Saratoga, California ⓘ surface form: Saratoga, California, United States Sunnyvale, California, United States ⓘ
climateClassification	Mediterranean climate ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
county	Santa Clara County ⓘ
elevationMeters	23 ⓘ
FIPSCode	06-69084 ⓘ
GNISFeatureID	1659567 ⓘ
governmentType	council–manager government ⓘ
hasConventionCenter	Santa Clara Convention Center ⓘ
hasHistoricMission	Mission Santa Clara de Asís ⓘ
hasMayorCouncil	yes ⓘ
hasStadium	Levi’s Stadium ⓘ surface form: Levi's Stadium
hasThemePark	California’s Great America ⓘ surface form: California's Great America
hasUniversity	Santa Clara University ⓘ
hostsCompanyHeadquarters	Advanced Micro Devices ⓘ surface form: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (major operations) Agilent Technologies ⓘ Applied Materials ⓘ Arista Networks ⓘ Hitachi Vantara ⓘ Intel Corporation ⓘ surface form: Intel Marvell Technology ⓘ NVIDIA Corporation ⓘ surface form: Nvidia Palo Alto Networks ⓘ ServiceNow ⓘ
incorporatedAsCity	July 5, 1852 ⓘ
isCountySeatOf	Santa Clara County ⓘ surface form: Santa Clara County (historical, former)
locatedIn	Silicon Valley ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Pacific Time Zone ⓘ
locatedNearRiver	San Tomas Aquino Creek ⓘ
locatedOnRiver	Guadalupe River ⓘ
majorIndustry	computer hardware ⓘ information technology ⓘ semiconductors ⓘ software ⓘ
namedAfter	Saint Clare of Assisi ⓘ
partOfCombinedStatisticalArea	San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ surface form: San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland CSA
partOfMetropolitanArea	San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area ⓘ surface form: San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan area
population	approximately 130000 ⓘ
populationCensusYear	2020 ⓘ
postalCodeRange	95050 ⓘ 95051 ⓘ 95052 ⓘ 95053 ⓘ
sportsTeamPlaysInCity	San Francisco 49ers ⓘ
state	California, United States ⓘ surface form: California
timeZoneDST	Pacific Time Zone ⓘ surface form: Pacific Daylight Time

How these facts were elicited