Otay Mesa Port of Entry
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Otay Mesa Port of Entry is a major U.S.–Mexico border crossing in the San Diego–Tijuana region, known especially for its high volume of commercial truck traffic and cargo processing.
All labels observed (7)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T88606 — 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: Otay Mesa Port of Entry Context triple: [San Diego–Tijuana, hasBorderCrossing, Otay Mesa Port of Entry]
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A.
San Ysidro Port of Entry
The San Ysidro Port of Entry is one of the busiest land border crossings in the world, connecting the United States and Mexico between San Diego and Tijuana.
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B.
San Diego–Tijuana
San Diego–Tijuana is a major transborder metropolitan region spanning southern California and northwestern Mexico, known for its extensive economic, cultural, and social integration across the U.S.–Mexico border.
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C.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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D.
Sonora Pass
Sonora Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its steep, scenic Highway 108 route and seasonal closure due to heavy snowfall.
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E.
Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is one of the busiest and most important container seaports in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
- 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: Otay Mesa Port of Entry Target entity description: Otay Mesa Port of Entry is a major U.S.–Mexico border crossing in the San Diego–Tijuana region, known especially for its high volume of commercial truck traffic and cargo processing.
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A.
San Ysidro Port of Entry
The San Ysidro Port of Entry is one of the busiest land border crossings in the world, connecting the United States and Mexico between San Diego and Tijuana.
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B.
San Diego–Tijuana
San Diego–Tijuana is a major transborder metropolitan region spanning southern California and northwestern Mexico, known for its extensive economic, cultural, and social integration across the U.S.–Mexico border.
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C.
Paso de San Francisco
Paso de San Francisco is a high-altitude Andean mountain pass on the Argentina–Chile border, known as a key access route to the Ojos del Salado volcano and surrounding desert landscapes.
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D.
Sonora Pass
Sonora Pass is a high mountain pass in California’s Sierra Nevada, known for its steep, scenic Highway 108 route and seasonal closure due to heavy snowfall.
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E.
Port of Long Beach
The Port of Long Beach is one of the busiest and most important container seaports in the United States, serving as a major gateway for trans-Pacific trade.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
border crossing
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port of entry ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| borderRegion | U.S.–Mexico border ⓘ |
| borderWith | Mexico ⓘ |
| connectsTo |
State Route 11 (planned/partial)
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State Route 125 ⓘ State Route 905 ⓘ Tijuana ⓘ
surface form:
Tijuana, Baja California
|
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| handles |
commercial truck traffic
ⓘ
freight shipments ⓘ passenger vehicles ⓘ pedestrian traffic ⓘ |
| hasFacilityType |
cargo inspection facilities
ⓘ
commercial vehicle inspection lanes ⓘ passenger vehicle lanes ⓘ pedestrian processing facilities ⓘ |
| hasMexicanCounterpart | Mesa de Otay border facilities ⓘ |
| hasRole |
key node in North American supply chains
ⓘ
major gateway for U.S.–Mexico trade ⓘ |
| isOneOf | busiest commercial land ports on the U.S.–Mexico border ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
Otay Mesa, San Diego, California, United States ⓘ
surface form:
Otay Mesa, San Diego, California
San Diego County ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego County, California
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| near |
Otay Mesa Port of Entry
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Otay Mesa industrial parks
U.S.–Mexico border fence ⓘ |
| opened | 1985 ⓘ |
| operatedBy | U.S. Customs and Border Protection ⓘ |
| partOf |
San Diego–Tijuana
ⓘ
surface form:
San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan region
|
| primaryFunction |
cargo processing
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commercial truck crossing ⓘ |
| replaced | some commercial traffic from San Ysidro Port of Entry ⓘ |
| servesCity |
San Diego
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Tijuana ⓘ |
| servesRegion |
Baja California
ⓘ
Southern California ⓘ |
| subjectTo |
Mexican customs regulations
ⓘ
U.S. customs regulations ⓘ |
| supervisedBy |
United States Department of Homeland Security
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
|
| supportsIndustry |
logistics and warehousing
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maquiladora manufacturing sector ⓘ |
| usedFor |
export of goods to Mexico
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import of goods into the United States ⓘ |
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: Otay Mesa Port of Entry Description of subject: Otay Mesa Port of Entry is a major U.S.–Mexico border crossing in the San Diego–Tijuana region, known especially for its high volume of commercial truck traffic and cargo processing.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Otay Mesa industrial parks
this entity surface form:
Otay Mesa East Port of Entry
this entity surface form:
Otay Mesa East
this entity surface form:
improve traffic flow to Otay Mesa Port of Entry
this entity surface form:
Otay Mesa, San Diego terminal
this entity surface form:
U.S.–Mexico border at Otay Mesa
this entity surface form:
Otay Mesa East Port of Entry