Hercules, California
E187183
Hercules, California is a small suburban city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its residential communities and location along the Interstate 80 corridor in western Contra Costa County.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hercules, California canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T797796 — 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: Hercules, California Context triple: [Contra Costa County, hasMajorCity, Hercules, California]
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A.
Hawthorne, California
Hawthorne, California is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County known for hosting major aerospace and technology companies, including SpaceX’s headquarters.
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B.
Eureka, California
Eureka, California is a historic coastal city in Northern California known for its Victorian architecture, working seaport, and proximity to the region’s famous redwood forests.
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C.
Rutherford, California
Rutherford, California is a small community in Napa Valley renowned for its premium wineries and distinctive Cabernet Sauvignon wines.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Hercules, California Target entity description: Hercules, California is a small suburban city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its residential communities and location along the Interstate 80 corridor in western Contra Costa County.
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A.
Hawthorne, California
Hawthorne, California is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County known for hosting major aerospace and technology companies, including SpaceX’s headquarters.
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B.
Eureka, California
Eureka, California is a historic coastal city in Northern California known for its Victorian architecture, working seaport, and proximity to the region’s famous redwood forests.
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C.
Rutherford, California
Rutherford, California is a small community in Napa Valley renowned for its premium wineries and distinctive Cabernet Sauvignon wines.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Pinole, California
ⓘ
Rodeo, California ⓘ San Pablo Bay ⓘ |
| areaCode | 510 ⓘ |
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Contra Costa County ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
residential community
ⓘ
suburban ⓘ |
| hasEconomicCharacteristic | bedroom community for Bay Area employment centers ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
business parks
ⓘ
parks and open space ⓘ residential neighborhoods ⓘ waterfront along San Pablo Bay ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
commercial areas near Interstate 80
ⓘ
primarily residential ⓘ |
| hasPlannedInfrastructure | intermodal transit center (planned) ⓘ |
| hasTransportation | bus service ⓘ |
| isCoastal | true ⓘ |
| isInCombinedStatisticalArea |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland CSA
|
| isInMetropolitanArea |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley metropolitan area
|
| isSuburbOf |
Oakland
ⓘ
surface form:
Oakland, California
Richmond, California ⓘ San Francisco, California, United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| locatedIn |
San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
Contra Costa County ⓘ
surface form:
West Contra Costa County
|
| locatedInRegion | Northern California ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNortheastOf |
San Francisco, California, United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
San Francisco, California
|
| locatedNorthOf |
Berkeley
ⓘ
surface form:
Berkeley, California
|
| locatedOn |
Interstate 80
ⓘ
surface form:
Interstate 80 corridor
San Pablo Bay ⓘ |
| locatedOnShoreOf | San Pablo Bay ⓘ |
| locatedWestOf | Martinez, California ⓘ |
| partOf | United States Census Bureau places in Contra Costa County ⓘ |
| postalCode | 94547 ⓘ |
| region |
East Bay
ⓘ
Contra Costa County ⓘ
surface form:
West Contra Costa County
|
| state |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
|
| timeZoneDST |
Pacific Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Pacific Daylight Time
|
| transportCorridor |
Interstate 80
ⓘ
California State Route 4 ⓘ
surface form:
State Route 4 (California)
|
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: Hercules, California Description of subject: Hercules, California is a small suburban city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its residential communities and location along the Interstate 80 corridor in western Contra Costa County.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Richmond, California
subject surface form:
State Route 4 (California)