Selma, California
E504694
Selma, California is a small city in Fresno County in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known historically for its raisin and grape production.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selma, California canonical | 4 |
| promotional slogan for Selma, California | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5243930 — 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: Selma, California Context triple: [Parlier, locatedNear, Selma, California]
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A.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
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B.
Fillmore, California
Fillmore, California is a small agricultural city in Ventura County known for its historic downtown, citrus and avocado groves, and scenic setting in the Santa Clara River Valley.
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C.
Clovis, California
Clovis, California is a suburban city in Fresno County known for its historic Old Town district, proximity to Fresno and the Sierra Nevada, and its role as a gateway to outdoor recreation in Central California.
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D.
Stateline, California
Stateline, California is a small unincorporated community on the California–Nevada border near Primm, known primarily as a roadside stop along Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert.
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E.
Delano, California
Delano, California is a city in California’s Central Valley known historically as a major agricultural hub and a focal point of the farmworker and civil rights movements.
- 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: Selma, California Target entity description: Selma, California is a small city in Fresno County in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known historically for its raisin and grape production.
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A.
Soledad, California
Soledad, California is a small agricultural city in Monterey County best known as the primary gateway to Pinnacles National Park.
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B.
Fillmore, California
Fillmore, California is a small agricultural city in Ventura County known for its historic downtown, citrus and avocado groves, and scenic setting in the Santa Clara River Valley.
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C.
Clovis, California
Clovis, California is a suburban city in Fresno County known for its historic Old Town district, proximity to Fresno and the Sierra Nevada, and its role as a gateway to outdoor recreation in Central California.
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D.
Stateline, California
Stateline, California is a small unincorporated community on the California–Nevada border near Primm, known primarily as a roadside stop along Interstate 15 in the Mojave Desert.
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E.
Delano, California
Delano, California is a city in California’s Central Valley known historically as a major agricultural hub and a focal point of the farmworker and civil rights movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| agriculturalProduct |
raisins
ⓘ
stone fruit ⓘ table grapes ⓘ wine grapes ⓘ |
| areaCode | 559 ⓘ |
| climate | hot-summer Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county |
Fresno County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Fresno County
|
| demographicsCharacteristic | significant Hispanic and Latino population ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 16 miles southeast of Fresno, California ⓘ |
| economicSector |
agricultural services
ⓘ
food processing ⓘ |
| elevation |
approximately 300 feet
ⓘ
approximately 91 meters ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasCommonLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| hasFireService | Selma Fire Department ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernmentBody | Selma City Council ⓘ |
| hasNickname | Raisin Capital of the World ⓘ |
| hasOfficialLanguageDeFacto | English ⓘ |
| hasPoliceDepartment | Selma Police Department ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Selma Unified School District ⓘ |
| hasRailService | freight rail along Union Pacific Railroad line ⓘ |
| hasTypeOfSettlement | small city ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffset | UTC−08:00 ⓘ |
| hasUTCOffsetDST | UTC−07:00 ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1893 ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States Census Bureau designated places ⓘ |
| knownFor |
grape production
ⓘ
raisin production ⓘ |
| landUse |
light industrial areas
ⓘ
orchards ⓘ residential neighborhoods ⓘ vineyards ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central California
ⓘ
San Joaquin Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | southern Fresno County ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Selma Gruenberg Lewis (disputed etymology) ⓘ |
| nearRiver | Kings River (regional vicinity) ⓘ |
| partOf |
Fresno metropolitan area
ⓘ
linked to:
Fresno–Clovis metropolitan area
|
| postalCode | 93662 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity | agriculture ⓘ |
| region |
California’s Central Valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Valley
|
| regionType | agricultural hub ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| transportation | served by State Route 99 ⓘ |
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: Selma, California Description of subject: Selma, California is a small city in Fresno County in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known historically for its raisin and grape production.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Selma, California