Ithaca, California
E429244
Ithaca, California is the fictional small-town setting of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," modeled on his hometown of Fresno during World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ithaca, California canonical | 4 |
| Ithaca, California (fictional town) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4307959 — 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: Ithaca, California Context triple: [The Human Comedy, setInFictionalTown, Ithaca, California]
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A.
Albany, California
Albany, California is a small coastal city in Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area, known for its residential character, waterfront parks, and proximity to Berkeley.
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B.
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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C.
Colfax, California
Colfax, California is a small historic Gold Rush–era town in Placer County known as a former railroad hub in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
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D.
Pittsburg, California
Pittsburg, California is an industrial and residential city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its waterfront location on the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and its long history tied to manufacturing and shipping.
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E.
Pomona, California
Pomona, California is a city in eastern Los Angeles County known for its diverse community, historic downtown, and role as a regional center for education and culture in the Pomona Valley.
- 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: Ithaca, California Target entity description: Ithaca, California is the fictional small-town setting of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," modeled on his hometown of Fresno during World War II.
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A.
Albany, California
Albany, California is a small coastal city in Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay Area, known for its residential character, waterfront parks, and proximity to Berkeley.
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B.
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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C.
Colfax, California
Colfax, California is a small historic Gold Rush–era town in Placer County known as a former railroad hub in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
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D.
Pittsburg, California
Pittsburg, California is an industrial and residential city in the San Francisco Bay Area known for its waterfront location on the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and its long history tied to manufacturing and shipping.
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E.
Pomona, California
Pomona, California is a city in eastern Los Angeles County known for its diverse community, historic downtown, and role as a regional center for education and culture in the Pomona Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional town
ⓘ
literary setting ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Human Comedy ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthorHometown |
Fresno, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Fresno
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depictsEnvironment | small town America ⓘ |
| depictsSocialClass | working-class community ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | not a real municipality ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkContext |
coming-of-age fiction
ⓘ
war-time drama ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
community
ⓘ
family ⓘ home front during war ⓘ loss ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th-century American literature ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| modeledOn |
Fresno, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Fresno
|
| narrativeEra | World War II ⓘ |
| notableCharacterAssociated |
Homer Macauley
ⓘ
Mr. Grogan ⓘ Ulysses Macauley ⓘ |
| settingOf | Homer Macauley’s story arc in The Human Comedy ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| timeSetting | early 1940s ⓘ |
| usedInAdaptation | film adaptations of The Human Comedy ⓘ |
| workAuthor | William Saroyan ⓘ |
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: Ithaca, California Description of subject: Ithaca, California is the fictional small-town setting of William Saroyan’s novel "The Human Comedy," modeled on his hometown of Fresno during World War II.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ithaca, California
linked to: Ithaca, California