Los Altos, California, United States

E236765

city municipality

Los Altos, California, United States is an affluent Silicon Valley suburb in Santa Clara County known for its residential character, excellent schools, and proximity to major tech companies.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Los Altos, California	37
Los Altos, California, United States canonical	8
Los Altos, California area	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1577869 — 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: Los Altos, California, United States
Context triple: [Charles Geschke, residence, Los Altos, California, United States]

A. 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.
B. Santa Clara, California, United States
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.
C. 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.
D. Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States is a Silicon Valley city known as a major technology hub and home to numerous high-profile tech companies.
E. 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.
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: Los Altos, California, United States
Target entity description: Los Altos, California, United States is an affluent Silicon Valley suburb in Santa Clara County known for its residential character, excellent schools, and proximity to major tech companies.

A. 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.
B. Santa Clara, California, United States
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.
C. 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.
D. Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States is a Silicon Valley city known as a major technology hub and home to numerous high-profile tech companies.
E. 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.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ municipality ⓘ
areaCode	650 ⓘ
climate	Mediterranean climate ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
county	Santa Clara County ⓘ
elevationAboveSeaLevel	approximately 52 meters ⓘ
governmentType	council–manager government ⓘ
hasDowntownArea	Los Altos downtown ⓘ linked to: Los Altos
hasHistoricalMuseum	Los Altos History Museum ⓘ
hasPark	Lincoln Park ⓘ Redwood Grove Nature Preserve ⓘ Shoup Park ⓘ
hasPublicLibrary	Los Altos Library ⓘ
hasPublicLibrarySystem	Santa Clara County Library District ⓘ
hasSchoolDistrict	Los Altos School District ⓘ Mountain View–Los Altos Union High School District ⓘ
incorporatedAsCityOn	1952-12-01 ⓘ
knownFor	affluent residential character ⓘ excellent public schools ⓘ proximity to major technology companies ⓘ strict commercial zoning ⓘ
locatedIn	Silicon Valley ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Pacific Time Zone ⓘ
locatedInValley	Santa Clara Valley ⓘ
locatedOnContinent	North America ⓘ
medianHouseholdIncomeRank	among highest in the United States ⓘ
nearMajorTechHub	Cupertino (Apple headquarters) ⓘ linked to: Cupertino Menlo Park (Meta headquarters) ⓘ linked to: Menlo Park, California Mountain View (Google headquarters) ⓘ linked to: Mountain View
neighboringCity	Cupertino, California, United States ⓘ linked to: Cupertino Los Altos Hills, California, United States ⓘ Mountain View, California, United States ⓘ Palo Alto, California, United States ⓘ linked to: Palo Alto, California Sunnyvale, California, United States ⓘ
officialLanguage	English ⓘ
partOfCombinedStatisticalArea	San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland CSA ⓘ linked to: San Francisco Bay Area
partOfMetropolitanArea	San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan area ⓘ linked to: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area
postalCodePrefix	94022 ⓘ 94024 ⓘ
primaryLandUse	low-density residential ⓘ
region	San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
settlementType	suburb ⓘ
state	California ⓘ linked to: California, United States
timeZoneDST	Pacific Daylight Time ⓘ linked to: Pacific Time Zone
transportationCorridor	near Interstate 280 ⓘ near State Route 82 (El Camino Real) ⓘ