Montes de Oca
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Montes de Oca is a largely urban, university-centered canton in Costa Rica known for hosting major campuses and vibrant student life near the capital, San José.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Montes de Oca canonical | 3 |
| San Pedro de Montes de Oca | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6939486 — 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: Montes de Oca Context triple: [San José Province, contains, Montes de Oca]
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A.
San Juan de la Costa
San Juan de la Costa is a coastal commune and municipality in southern Chile known for its Mapuche Huilliche communities, rugged Pacific shoreline, and rural landscapes.
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B.
Piedecuesta
Piedecuesta is a Colombian city and municipality located in the Santander Department, known for its growing urban development and proximity to the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga.
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C.
Capiceño
Capiceño is an alternative name for the Capiznon language, an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the province of Capiz in the Philippines.
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D.
Cerro El Ávila
Cerro El Ávila is a prominent mountain and national park that forms the green backdrop of Caracas, Venezuela, separating the city from the Caribbean coast.
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E.
Valle Gómez
Valle Gómez is a Mexico City Metro station on Line 5 serving the Valle Gómez neighborhood in the city.
- 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: Montes de Oca Target entity description: Montes de Oca is a largely urban, university-centered canton in Costa Rica known for hosting major campuses and vibrant student life near the capital, San José.
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A.
San Juan de la Costa
San Juan de la Costa is a coastal commune and municipality in southern Chile known for its Mapuche Huilliche communities, rugged Pacific shoreline, and rural landscapes.
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B.
Piedecuesta
Piedecuesta is a Colombian city and municipality located in the Santander Department, known for its growing urban development and proximity to the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga.
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C.
Capiceño
Capiceño is an alternative name for the Capiznon language, an Austronesian language spoken primarily in the province of Capiz in the Philippines.
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D.
Cerro El Ávila
Cerro El Ávila is a prominent mountain and national park that forms the green backdrop of Caracas, Venezuela, separating the city from the Caribbean coast.
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E.
Valle Gómez
Valle Gómez is a Mexico City Metro station on Line 5 serving the Valle Gómez neighborhood in the city.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canton ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
Curridabat Canton
ⓘ
linked to:
Curridabat (canton)
Goicoechea Canton ⓘ
linked to:
Goicoechea canton
La Unión Canton ⓘ San José Canton ⓘ
linked to:
San José canton
Vázquez de Coronado Canton ⓘ |
| capital | San Pedro ⓘ |
| characteristic |
high population density
ⓘ
largely urban ⓘ university-centered ⓘ |
| climate | tropical wet and dry climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Fidelitas University campuses
ⓘ
Latin University of Costa Rica campuses ⓘ UCR San Pedro campus ⓘ
linked to:
Occidental Campus
University of Costa Rica main campus ⓘ
linked to:
University of Costa Rica
commercial areas ⓘ residential neighborhoods ⓘ student housing areas ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| demographics |
highly educated residents
ⓘ
large student population ⓘ |
| economy |
commerce
ⓘ
education sector ⓘ services sector ⓘ |
| governedBy | Municipality of Montes de Oca ⓘ |
| hasFacility |
cafes and restaurants
ⓘ
libraries ⓘ student-oriented services ⓘ |
| hasMunicipalSeat | San Pedro ⓘ |
| hasSettlement |
Mercedes
ⓘ
Sabanilla ⓘ San Pedro ⓘ San Rafael ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Gran Área Metropolitana
ⓘ
Greater San José ⓘ
linked to:
San José metropolitan area
|
| knownFor |
cultural activities
ⓘ
major university campuses ⓘ vibrant student life ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | San José Province ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Central America ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
San José city center
ⓘ
linked to:
San José
|
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOfUrbanArea | San José metropolitan area ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC−06:00 ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
connected by main roads to San José
ⓘ
served by urban bus routes ⓘ |
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: Montes de Oca Description of subject: Montes de Oca is a largely urban, university-centered canton in Costa Rica known for hosting major campuses and vibrant student life near the capital, San José.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Central Valley
subject linked to:
Central Valley
linked to: Montes de Oca
linked to: Montes de Oca