San José
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San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, known for its political, economic, and cultural significance in Central America.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San José canonical | 60 |
| San José, Costa Rica | 9 |
| San José (Costa Rica) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T131965 — 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 José Context triple: [Central America, hasMajorCity, San José]
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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.
Vallejo
Vallejo is a waterfront city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its former Mare Island Naval Shipyard and diverse, working-class community.
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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.
San Francisco
San Francisco is a major coastal city in Northern California known for its hilly landscape, iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and role as a historic center of technology and counterculture.
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E.
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
- 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 José Target entity description: San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, known for its political, economic, and cultural significance in Central America.
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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.
Vallejo
Vallejo is a waterfront city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its former Mare Island Naval Shipyard and diverse, working-class community.
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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.
San Francisco
San Francisco is a major coastal city in Northern California known for its hilly landscape, iconic Golden Gate Bridge, and role as a historic center of technology and counterculture.
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E.
Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
- 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: San José Description of subject: San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, known for its political, economic, and cultural significance in Central America.
Referenced by (70)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José (Costa Rica)
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, Costa Rica