San Simeon, California
E188917
San Simeon, California is a small coastal community on California’s Central Coast best known as the home of Hearst Castle and its scenic shoreline along Highway 1.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San Simeon, California canonical | 8 |
| Piedras Blancas, California | 1 |
| San Simeon, California, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T918804 — 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: San Simeon, California Context triple: [Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument, locatedIn, San Simeon, California]
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A.
La Palma, California
La Palma, California is a small suburban city in northern Orange County known for its residential neighborhoods, parks, and high-ranking public schools.
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B.
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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C.
Sonora, California
Sonora, California is a historic Gold Rush-era city in the Sierra Nevada foothills that serves as a regional hub for outdoor recreation and access to nearby national forests and parks.
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D.
Suisun City, California
Suisun City, California is a small waterfront community in Solano County known for its historic downtown and proximity to the Suisun Marsh and San Francisco Bay Area.
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E.
Hawthorne, California
Hawthorne, California is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County known for hosting major aerospace and technology companies, including SpaceX’s headquarters.
- 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: San Simeon, California Target entity description: San Simeon, California is a small coastal community on California’s Central Coast best known as the home of Hearst Castle and its scenic shoreline along Highway 1.
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A.
La Palma, California
La Palma, California is a small suburban city in northern Orange County known for its residential neighborhoods, parks, and high-ranking public schools.
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B.
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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C.
Sonora, California
Sonora, California is a historic Gold Rush-era city in the Sierra Nevada foothills that serves as a regional hub for outdoor recreation and access to nearby national forests and parks.
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D.
Suisun City, California
Suisun City, California is a small waterfront community in Solano County known for its historic downtown and proximity to the Suisun Marsh and San Francisco Bay Area.
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E.
Hawthorne, California
Hawthorne, California is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County known for hosting major aerospace and technology companies, including SpaceX’s headquarters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: San Simeon, California Description of subject: San Simeon, California is a small coastal community on California’s Central Coast best known as the home of Hearst Castle and its scenic shoreline along Highway 1.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument
this entity surface form:
San Simeon, California, United States
this entity surface form:
Piedras Blancas, California