Colma, California
E145647
Colma, California is a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area best known for its numerous cemeteries and the fact that the dead vastly outnumber the living residents.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colma, California canonical | 25 |
| Colma, California, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T507165 — 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: Colma, California Context triple: [San Mateo County, California, hasTown, Colma, California]
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A.
Coloma, California
Coloma, California is a historic Gold Country town best known as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush.
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B.
Colfax, California
Colfax, California is a small historic Gold Rush–era town in Placer County known as a former railroad hub in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
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C.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
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D.
Clovis, California
Clovis, California is a suburban city in Fresno County known for its historic Old Town district, proximity to Fresno and the Sierra Nevada, and its role as a gateway to outdoor recreation in Central California.
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E.
Woodside, California
Woodside, California is an affluent, semi-rural town on the San Francisco Peninsula known for its large estates, equestrian culture, and proximity to Silicon Valley.
- 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: Colma, California Target entity description: Colma, California is a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area best known for its numerous cemeteries and the fact that the dead vastly outnumber the living residents.
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A.
Coloma, California
Coloma, California is a historic Gold Country town best known as the site where gold was first discovered in 1848, sparking the California Gold Rush.
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B.
Colfax, California
Colfax, California is a small historic Gold Rush–era town in Placer County known as a former railroad hub in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
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C.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
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D.
Clovis, California
Clovis, California is a suburban city in Fresno County known for its historic Old Town district, proximity to Fresno and the Sierra Nevada, and its role as a gateway to outdoor recreation in Central California.
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E.
Woodside, California
Woodside, California is an affluent, semi-rural town on the San Francisco Peninsula known for its large estates, equestrian culture, and proximity to Silicon Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
incorporated town
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ town ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Daly City
ⓘ
surface form:
Daly City, California
South San Francisco ⓘ
surface form:
South San Francisco, California
|
| areaCode | 650 ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county |
San Mateo County, California
ⓘ
surface form:
San Mateo County
|
| demographicFact | deceased population in cemeteries numbers in the millions ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 160 feet above sea level ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager ⓘ |
| hasCemetery |
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
ⓘ
Greek Orthodox Memorial Park ⓘ Hills of Eternity Memorial Park ⓘ Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery ⓘ Italian Cemetery ⓘ Japanese Cemetery ⓘ Pet’s Rest Cemetery ⓘ Serbian Cemetery ⓘ Woodlawn Memorial Park ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
funeral services
ⓘ
retail auto dealerships ⓘ stone and monument businesses ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
cemeteries
ⓘ
residential areas ⓘ retail centers ⓘ |
| incorporated | 1924 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
large number of cemeteries
ⓘ
population of deceased greatly exceeding living residents ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
San Francisco Peninsula ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Daly City
ⓘ
surface form:
Daly City, California
San Francisco, California, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| locatedOn |
El Camino Real (California)
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco Peninsula corridor along El Camino Real
|
| motto | It’s great to be alive in Colma ⓘ |
| nickname | City of Souls ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.colma.ca.gov/ ⓘ |
| partOf |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley metropolitan area
San Mateo County’s northern suburbs ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | living population is relatively small ⓘ |
| postalCode | 94014 ⓘ |
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| timezone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| timezoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
|
| transportation |
served by BART at Colma station
ⓘ
served by El Camino Real (California State Route 82) ⓘ |
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: Colma, California Description of subject: Colma, California is a small town in the San Francisco Bay Area best known for its numerous cemeteries and the fact that the dead vastly outnumber the living residents.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Japanese Cemetery (Colma, California)
subject surface form:
South San Francisco
subject surface form:
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
this entity surface form:
Colma, California, United States