San Mateo
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San Mateo is a city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its suburban neighborhoods, parks, and role as a commercial and residential hub on the Peninsula.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San Mateo, California | 22 |
| San Mateo canonical | 21 |
| City of San Mateo | 3 |
| San Mateo, California, United States | 1 |
| San Mateo–Burlingame area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30771 — 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 Mateo Context triple: [El Camino Real, passesThrough, San Mateo]
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A.
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale is a major Silicon Valley city in Northern California known for its high-tech industry presence and suburban residential communities.
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B.
Daly City
Daly City is a suburban city just south of San Francisco in San Mateo County, California, known for its diverse population and role as a major residential and commercial hub in the Bay Area.
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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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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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E.
South San Francisco
South San Francisco is a city in northern San Mateo County, California, known for its industrial roots, biotech industry presence, and location just south of San Francisco.
- 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 Mateo Target entity description: San Mateo is a city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its suburban neighborhoods, parks, and role as a commercial and residential hub on the Peninsula.
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A.
Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale is a major Silicon Valley city in Northern California known for its high-tech industry presence and suburban residential communities.
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B.
Daly City
Daly City is a suburban city just south of San Francisco in San Mateo County, California, known for its diverse population and role as a major residential and commercial hub in the Bay Area.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
South San Francisco
South San Francisco is a city in northern San Mateo County, California, known for its industrial roots, biotech industry presence, and location just south of San Francisco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Mateo Description of subject: San Mateo is a city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its suburban neighborhoods, parks, and role as a commercial and residential hub on the Peninsula.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Central Park
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CuriOdyssey wildlife center
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Roblox (via a dialect, Luau)
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Pier 1 Imports (former)
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Interstate 280 (nearby)
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Burlingame, California, United States
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Hillsdale Caltrain station
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