Redwood City, California
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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.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Redwood City, California canonical | 52 |
| Redwood City | 11 |
| City of Redwood City | 9 |
| Redwood City, California, United States | 9 |
| Downtown Redwood City | 1 |
| Redwood City (parts) | 1 |
| Redwood City government | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14498 — 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: Redwood City, California Context triple: [Atherton, California, United States, neighboringSettlement, Redwood City, California]
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A.
San Jose
San Jose is a major technology and innovation hub in Silicon Valley and one of the largest cities in Northern California.
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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.
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C.
Santa Clara
Santa Clara is a Silicon Valley city in California known for its high-tech industry presence, Levi’s Stadium, and Santa Clara University.
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D.
Fair Oaks, California
Fair Oaks, California is a suburban community in Sacramento County known for its semi-rural feel, oak tree–lined neighborhoods, and proximity to the American River.
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E.
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is a major metropolitan region in Northern California known for its technology industry, cultural diversity, and iconic landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge.
- 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: Redwood City, California Target entity description: 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.
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A.
San Jose
San Jose is a major technology and innovation hub in Silicon Valley and one of the largest cities in Northern California.
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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.
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C.
Santa Clara
Santa Clara is a Silicon Valley city in California known for its high-tech industry presence, Levi’s Stadium, and Santa Clara University.
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D.
Fair Oaks, California
Fair Oaks, California is a suburban community in Sacramento County known for its semi-rural feel, oak tree–lined neighborhoods, and proximity to the American River.
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E.
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area is a major metropolitan region in Northern California known for its technology industry, cultural diversity, and iconic landmarks such as the Golden Gate Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Redwood City, California Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (84)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Redwood City
this entity surface form:
Redwood City
this entity surface form:
Redwood City, California, United States
this entity surface form:
Redwood City, California, United States
this entity surface form:
Redwood City
this entity surface form:
Redwood City
this entity surface form:
Redwood City
Redwood City, California
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hasHistoricDistrict
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Redwood City, California
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Downtown Redwood City
this entity surface form:
Redwood City
subject surface form:
Julian Edelman
this entity surface form:
Redwood City, California, United States
this entity surface form:
Redwood City, California, United States
subject surface form:
NeXT Inc.
this entity surface form:
Redwood City, California, United States
San Mateo County Board of Supervisors
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locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
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Redwood City, California
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subject surface form:
Belmont, California
this entity surface form:
Redwood City (parts)
this entity surface form:
Redwood City, California, United States
this entity surface form:
City of Redwood City
this entity surface form:
City of Redwood City
this entity surface form:
Redwood City government
this entity surface form:
City of Redwood City
subject surface form:
Filoli
subject surface form:
Courthouse Square (Redwood City)
subject surface form:
Courthouse Square (Redwood City)
this entity surface form:
City of Redwood City
subject surface form:
Courthouse Square (Redwood City)
this entity surface form:
City of Redwood City
subject surface form:
Courthouse Square (Redwood City)
this entity surface form:
Redwood City