Corcoran
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Corcoran is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known primarily for its agricultural economy and nearby state prisons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Corcoran canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10635054 — 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: Corcoran Context triple: [Kings County, contains, Corcoran]
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A.
Corcoran
Corcoran is a small city in Minnesota, United States, located within the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
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B.
Sarsfield
Sarsfield is an Irish surname most famously associated with Patrick Sarsfield, a Jacobite military leader during the Williamite War in Ireland.
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C.
Halloran
Halloran is the surname of the eccentric, dysfunctional family at the center of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "The Sundial."
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D.
Gormley
Gormley is a small rural community in Ontario, Canada, known for its historic character and location near the Greater Toronto Area.
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E.
Bandeen Hall
Bandeen Hall is a performance and event venue located on the campus of Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
- 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: Corcoran Target entity description: Corcoran is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known primarily for its agricultural economy and nearby state prisons.
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A.
Corcoran
Corcoran is a small city in Minnesota, United States, located within the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.
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B.
Sarsfield
Sarsfield is an Irish surname most famously associated with Patrick Sarsfield, a Jacobite military leader during the Williamite War in Ireland.
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C.
Halloran
Halloran is the surname of the eccentric, dysfunctional family at the center of Shirley Jackson’s gothic novel "The Sundial."
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D.
Gormley
Gormley is a small rural community in Ontario, Canada, known for its historic character and location near the Greater Toronto Area.
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E.
Bandeen Hall
Bandeen Hall is a performance and event venue located on the campus of Bishop's University in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| climateRegion | California Central Valley climate zone ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| economyType | agricultural economy ⓘ |
| governingBody | Corcoran city government ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic | small city ⓘ |
| hasEconomicBase |
agricultural production
ⓘ
prison-related employment ⓘ |
| hasFeature | rural surroundings ⓘ |
| hasPrisonNearby |
California State Prison, Corcoran
ⓘ
California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Central Valley of California
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Valley
|
| knownFor |
agriculture
ⓘ
nearby state prisons ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Kings County, California ⓘ San Joaquin Valley ⓘ United States West Coast ⓘ
linked to:
West Coast of the United States
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| near |
California State Prison, Corcoran
ⓘ
California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran ⓘ |
| observes |
Pacific Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Time Zone
Pacific Standard Time ⓘ
linked to:
Pacific Time Zone
|
| partOf |
San Joaquin Valley region
ⓘ
linked to:
San Joaquin Valley
|
| primarySector |
farming
ⓘ
food processing ⓘ |
| region | San Joaquin Valley ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| transportationRegion | San Joaquin Valley transportation network ⓘ |
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: Corcoran Description of subject: Corcoran is a small city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known primarily for its agricultural economy and nearby state prisons.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.