San José, Costa Rica
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San José, Costa Rica is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San José, Costa Rica canonical | 24 |
| San José de Costa Rica | 1 |
| San José, capital of Costa Rica | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6570568 — 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, Costa Rica Context triple: [Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, headquartersLocation, San José, Costa Rica]
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A.
Heredia, Costa Rica
Heredia, Costa Rica is a historic city in the country’s Central Valley known for its colonial architecture, coffee plantations, and role as part of the Greater San José metropolitan area.
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B.
Ostional, Costa Rica
Ostional, Costa Rica is a coastal village on the Nicoya Peninsula famed for its massive arribadas, when hundreds of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles come ashore to nest.
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C.
San Salvador
San Salvador is the largest city of El Salvador and its political, cultural, and economic center.
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D.
Juigalpa
Juigalpa is a city in central Nicaragua that serves as the capital of the Chontales Department and a regional hub for agriculture and cattle ranching.
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E.
Place du Costa Rica
Place du Costa Rica is a small public square in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, located near the Passy metro station and named in honor of the Central American country.
- 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, Costa Rica Target entity description: San José, Costa Rica is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
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A.
Heredia, Costa Rica
Heredia, Costa Rica is a historic city in the country’s Central Valley known for its colonial architecture, coffee plantations, and role as part of the Greater San José metropolitan area.
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B.
Ostional, Costa Rica
Ostional, Costa Rica is a coastal village on the Nicoya Peninsula famed for its massive arribadas, when hundreds of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles come ashore to nest.
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C.
San Salvador
San Salvador is the largest city of El Salvador and its political, cultural, and economic center.
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D.
Juigalpa
Juigalpa is a city in central Nicaragua that serves as the capital of the Chontales Department and a regional hub for agriculture and cattle ranching.
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E.
Place du Costa Rica
Place du Costa Rica is a small public square in Paris’s 16th arrondissement, located near the Passy metro station and named in honor of the Central American country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
capital city
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city ⓘ |
| airport | Juan Santamaría International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| callingCode | +506 ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | tropical wet and dry climate ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| currency | Costa Rican colón NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| demonym |
Josefina
NERFINISHED
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Josefino NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| elevationApproximate | about 1100 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| foundedIn | 1738 ⓘ |
| gainedCapitalStatusIn | 1823 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipality of San José NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDistrict |
Carmen
NERFINISHED
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Catedral NERFINISHED ⓘ Hatillo NERFINISHED ⓘ Hospital ⓘ Mata Redonda NERFINISHED ⓘ Merced NERFINISHED ⓘ Pavas NERFINISHED ⓘ San Francisco de Dos Ríos NERFINISHED ⓘ San Sebastián NERFINISHED ⓘ Uruca NERFINISHED ⓘ Zapote NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Metropolitan Cathedral of San José
NERFINISHED
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National Museum of Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ National Theatre of Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ Pre-Columbian Gold Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity |
National University of Costa Rica (metropolitan presence)
NERFINISHED
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University of Costa Rica (main campus nearby in San Pedro) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hosts |
Costa Rican government
NERFINISHED
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Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ Presidential House of Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largestCityOf | Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central America
ⓘ
Central Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ San José Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mayorTitle | Mayor of San José ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| populationApproximate | over 300000 ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 10101–10139 ⓘ |
| river |
Torres River
NERFINISHED
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Virilla River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roadNetwork | served by Pan-American Highway ⓘ |
| role |
cultural center of Costa Rica
ⓘ
economic center of Costa Rica ⓘ political center of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
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| urbanArea | Gran Área Metropolitana (Greater Metropolitan Area) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| utcOffset | −06:00 ⓘ |
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, Costa Rica Description of subject: San José, Costa Rica is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, serving as the country’s political, economic, and cultural center.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
San José de Costa Rica
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Costa Rica
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headquartersLocation
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San José, Costa Rica
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subject surface form:
Liberia, Costa Rica
this entity surface form:
San José, capital of Costa Rica