Heredia
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Heredia is a historic city in Costa Rica known for its colonial architecture, vibrant university life, and location in the country’s Central Valley.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heredia canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7254339 — 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: Heredia Context triple: [Central Valley of Costa Rica, notableCity, Heredia]
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A.
Bajío
Bajío is a fertile, economically important region in central-western Mexico known for its agriculture, industry, and colonial cities.
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B.
Navarrete
Navarrete is a Spanish surname most notably borne by Javier Navarrete, an acclaimed film composer known for his work on movies such as "Pan's Labyrinth."
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C.
Curridabat
Curridabat is a suburban city and canton in Costa Rica known for its residential neighborhoods, commercial development, and proximity to the capital, San José.
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D.
Epazoyucan
Epazoyucan is a municipality in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, known for its rural landscapes and proximity to the mining and cultural region of the Comarca Minera.
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E.
San Miguel
San Miguel is an active stratovolcano in eastern El Salvador, known for its frequent eruptions and prominent conical shape within the Central American volcanic chain.
- 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: Heredia Target entity description: Heredia is a historic city in Costa Rica known for its colonial architecture, vibrant university life, and location in the country’s Central Valley.
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A.
Bajío
Bajío is a fertile, economically important region in central-western Mexico known for its agriculture, industry, and colonial cities.
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B.
Navarrete
Navarrete is a Spanish surname most notably borne by Javier Navarrete, an acclaimed film composer known for his work on movies such as "Pan's Labyrinth."
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C.
Curridabat
Curridabat is a suburban city and canton in Costa Rica known for its residential neighborhoods, commercial development, and proximity to the capital, San José.
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D.
Epazoyucan
Epazoyucan is a municipality in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, known for its rural landscapes and proximity to the mining and cultural region of the Comarca Minera.
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E.
San Miguel
San Miguel is an active stratovolcano in eastern El Salvador, known for its frequent eruptions and prominent conical shape within the Central American volcanic chain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| administrativeDivisionOf | Heredia Canton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
City of Flowers
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ciudad de las Flores NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | +506 ⓘ |
| capitalOf | Heredia Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | tropical savanna climate ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country | Costa Rica ⓘ |
| demonym | herediano ⓘ |
| distanceToSanJoséApproximate | 10 kilometers ⓘ |
| elevation | 1150 meters ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1706 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Municipalidad de Heredia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grantedCityStatus | 1813 ⓘ |
| hasCulturalInstitution | Museo de Cultura Popular (nearby in Barva area) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
cobblestone streets in historic center
ⓘ
colonial-era buildings ⓘ urban parks ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Casa de la Cultura de Heredia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fortín de Heredia NERFINISHED ⓘ Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción NERFINISHED ⓘ Parque Central de Heredia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicSpace | Mercado Central de Heredia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasUniversity | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | Spanish colonial heritage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
coffee production in surrounding areas
ⓘ
colonial architecture ⓘ vibrant university life ⓘ |
| language | Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Central Valley of Costa Rica
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Heredia Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Alajuela
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
San José NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationApproximate | 40000 ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 40101 ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
commerce
ⓘ
education ⓘ services ⓘ |
| region | Central America ⓘ |
| religionMajority | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
|
| transportConnection |
connected by road to San José
ⓘ
served by local bus network ⓘ |
| urbanAreaType | metropolitan area of San José ⓘ |
| 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: Heredia Description of subject: Heredia is a historic city in Costa Rica known for its colonial architecture, vibrant university life, and location in the country’s Central Valley.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.