San José canton
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San José canton is the central administrative division that includes Costa Rica’s capital city, San José, and several surrounding districts.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| San José canton canonical | 18 |
| San José Canton | 12 |
| San José canton (administrative seat) | 1 |
| canton of San José Province | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7011270 — 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 canton Context triple: [Zapote, partOf, San José canton]
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A.
Loreto Canton
Loreto Canton is an administrative subdivision in Ecuador’s Amazonian Orellana Province, known for its rainforest landscapes and indigenous communities.
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B.
Durán Canton
Durán Canton is an administrative division in Ecuador’s Guayas Province, located near the city of Guayaquil and known as an important transport and industrial hub.
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C.
Pedernales Canton
Pedernales Canton is an administrative division in coastal Ecuador known for its beaches, fishing activities, and location within Manabí Province.
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D.
San José Province
San José Province is a central administrative region of Costa Rica that includes the national capital and serves as a political, economic, and cultural hub of the country.
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E.
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno Canton
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno Canton is an administrative subdivision in coastal Ecuador named after a former president, located within the country’s economically important Guayas Province.
- 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 canton Target entity description: San José canton is the central administrative division that includes Costa Rica’s capital city, San José, and several surrounding districts.
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A.
Loreto Canton
Loreto Canton is an administrative subdivision in Ecuador’s Amazonian Orellana Province, known for its rainforest landscapes and indigenous communities.
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B.
Durán Canton
Durán Canton is an administrative division in Ecuador’s Guayas Province, located near the city of Guayaquil and known as an important transport and industrial hub.
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C.
Pedernales Canton
Pedernales Canton is an administrative division in coastal Ecuador known for its beaches, fishing activities, and location within Manabí Province.
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D.
San José Province
San José Province is a central administrative region of Costa Rica that includes the national capital and serves as a political, economic, and cultural hub of the country.
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E.
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno Canton
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno Canton is an administrative subdivision in coastal Ecuador named after a former president, located within the country’s economically important Guayas Province.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | canton of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| capital | San José ⓘ |
| contains |
Carmen district
ⓘ
Catedral district ⓘ Hatillo district ⓘ
linked to:
Hatillo
Hospital district ⓘ Mata Redonda district ⓘ Merced district ⓘ Pavas district ⓘ San Francisco de Dos Ríos district ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco de Dos Ríos
San José ⓘ San Sebastián district ⓘ
linked to:
San Sebastián District
Uruca district ⓘ Zapote district ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| countryCapitalIncludes | San José ⓘ |
| governedBy | Municipality of San José ⓘ |
| hasCapitalFunction |
hosts main executive offices of Costa Rica
ⓘ
hosts main judicial institutions of Costa Rica ⓘ hosts national legislative buildings of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| hasClimateType | tropical wet and dry climate ⓘ |
| hasGovernmentType | municipal government ⓘ |
| hasMajorRiverNearby |
Torres River
ⓘ
Virilla River ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfDistricts | 11 ⓘ |
| hasPrimaryEconomicSectors |
commerce
ⓘ
government services ⓘ services ⓘ |
| hasRole |
cultural center of Costa Rica
ⓘ
economic center of Costa Rica ⓘ seat of national government of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| hasSignificance |
includes Costa Rica’s capital city
ⓘ
most populous canton of San José Province ⓘ |
| hasSubdivisionType | district ⓘ |
| hasUrbanAreaType | metropolitan area ⓘ |
| isCentralAdministrativeDivisionFor | San José urban area ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | San José Province ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Central America ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | North America ⓘ |
| namedAfter | San José ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greater Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Valley of Costa Rica
|
| roadNetworkRole | national transportation hub of Costa Rica ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
UTC−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 canton Description of subject: San José canton is the central administrative division that includes Costa Rica’s capital city, San José, and several surrounding districts.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Legislative Assembly
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