Sunnyvale, California, United States

E501650

city municipality

Sunnyvale is a major Silicon Valley city in Santa Clara County known for its high-tech industry presence, suburban neighborhoods, and proximity to companies like Google, Apple, and LinkedIn.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Sunnyvale, California	69
Sunnyvale, California, United States canonical	15

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5195852 — 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: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Context triple: [Santa Clara, California, United States, borders, Sunnyvale, California, United States]

A. 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.
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. San Mateo, California, United States
San Mateo is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of California known for its suburban neighborhoods, strong economy, and proximity to major tech and business hubs.
D. San Jose, California, United States
San Jose is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley, known as a global center for technology and innovation.
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: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Target entity description: Sunnyvale is a major Silicon Valley city in Santa Clara County known for its high-tech industry presence, suburban neighborhoods, and proximity to companies like Google, Apple, and LinkedIn.

A. 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.
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. San Mateo, California, United States
San Mateo is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of California known for its suburban neighborhoods, strong economy, and proximity to major tech and business hubs.
D. San Jose, California, United States
San Jose is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley, known as a global center for technology and innovation.
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 (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ municipality ⓘ
adjacentToCity	Cupertino, California ⓘ linked to: Cupertino Los Altos, California ⓘ linked to: Los Altos, California, United States Mountain View, California ⓘ linked to: Mountain View, California, United States San Jose, California ⓘ Santa Clara, California ⓘ linked to: Santa Clara
areaCode	408 ⓘ 669 ⓘ
areaLandKm2	56.0 ⓘ
areaTotalKm2	58.8 ⓘ
areaWaterKm2	2.8 ⓘ
areaWaterPercent	4.7 ⓘ
climateClassification	Mediterranean climate ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
county	Santa Clara County ⓘ
elevationInFeet	121 ⓘ
elevationInMeters	37 ⓘ
FIPSCode	06-77000 ⓘ
GNISFeatureID	1652807 ⓘ
governmentType	council–manager government ⓘ
hasCityCouncil	Sunnyvale City Council ⓘ
hasCommunityCollegeNearby	De Anza College ⓘ Foothill College ⓘ
hasMajorEmployer	Juniper Networks ⓘ LinkedIn ⓘ NetApp ⓘ Yahoo ⓘ
hasPark	Baylands Park ⓘ Las Palmas Park ⓘ Ortega Park ⓘ
hasPoliceDepartment	Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety ⓘ
hasUnifiedPublicSafety	combined police and fire services ⓘ
incorporatedAsCityOn	1912-12-24 ⓘ
knownFor	high-tech industry ⓘ suburban residential neighborhoods ⓘ
locatedIn	Silicon Valley ⓘ
locatedInMetropolitanArea	San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan area ⓘ linked to: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area
locatedInTimeZone	Pacific Time Zone ⓘ
mayorCouncilForm	yes ⓘ
medianHouseholdIncomeRank	among highest in United States cities ⓘ
nearHeadquartersOf	Apple Inc. ⓘ Google ⓘ
officialWebsite	https://sunnyvale.ca.gov ⓘ
partOfCombinedStatisticalArea	San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland CSA ⓘ linked to: San Francisco Bay Area
populationAsOf	2020 ⓘ
populationDensityPerKm2	2780 ⓘ
populationTotal	155805 ⓘ
postalCode	94085 ⓘ 94086 ⓘ 94087 ⓘ 94088 ⓘ 94089 ⓘ
servedByHighSchoolDistrict	Fremont Union High School District ⓘ
servedByHighway	California State Route 237 ⓘ California State Route 82 ⓘ Interstate 280 ⓘ U.S. Route 101 ⓘ
servedByRail	Caltrain ⓘ
servedBySchoolDistrict	Cupertino Union School District ⓘ Sunnyvale School District ⓘ
servedByTransitAgency	Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority ⓘ
state	California ⓘ linked to: California, United States
timeZoneDST	Pacific Daylight Time ⓘ linked to: Pacific Time Zone