San José metropolitan area
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The San José metropolitan area is Costa Rica’s largest urban agglomeration and economic, political, and cultural hub, centered around the national capital of San José.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| San José metropolitan area canonical | 19 |
| Greater San José | 2 |
| Greater San José area | 1 |
| Greater San José metropolitan area | 1 |
| Greater San José region (broad area) | 1 |
| San José Metropolitan Area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7254737 — 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 metropolitan area Context triple: [Pavas, locatedInCountryCapitalRegion, San José metropolitan area]
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A.
Palo Alto metropolitan area
The Palo Alto metropolitan area is an urban region in the San Francisco Bay Area centered on the city of Palo Alto, known for its proximity to Stanford University and its role in the heart of Silicon Valley’s technology and innovation ecosystem.
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B.
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area
The San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan area is a major Silicon Valley tech hub in California’s Bay Area, centered on San Jose and known for its high concentration of technology companies and innovation.
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C.
San Jose City
San Jose City is a landlocked component city in the province of Nueva Ecija in the Philippines, known as an agricultural and commercial hub in Central Luzon.
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D.
Vallejo–Fairfield metropolitan area
The Vallejo–Fairfield metropolitan area is a Northern California metro region centered on the cities of Vallejo and Fairfield in Solano County, forming part of the broader San Francisco Bay Area.
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E.
San José
San José is a small municipality and town located in the Caldas Department of Colombia, known for its coffee-growing rural landscape in the Andean region.
- 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 metropolitan area Target entity description: The San José metropolitan area is Costa Rica’s largest urban agglomeration and economic, political, and cultural hub, centered around the national capital of San José.
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A.
Palo Alto metropolitan area
The Palo Alto metropolitan area is an urban region in the San Francisco Bay Area centered on the city of Palo Alto, known for its proximity to Stanford University and its role in the heart of Silicon Valley’s technology and innovation ecosystem.
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B.
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area
The San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan area is a major Silicon Valley tech hub in California’s Bay Area, centered on San Jose and known for its high concentration of technology companies and innovation.
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C.
San Jose City
San Jose City is a landlocked component city in the province of Nueva Ecija in the Philippines, known as an agricultural and commercial hub in Central Luzon.
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D.
Vallejo–Fairfield metropolitan area
The Vallejo–Fairfield metropolitan area is a Northern California metro region centered on the cities of Vallejo and Fairfield in Solano County, forming part of the broader San Francisco Bay Area.
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E.
San José
San José is a small municipality and town located in the Caldas Department of Colombia, known for its coffee-growing rural landscape in the Andean region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 metropolitan area Description of subject: The San José metropolitan area is Costa Rica’s largest urban agglomeration and economic, political, and cultural hub, centered around the national capital of San José.
Referenced by (25)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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