Redwood City Public Library
E118410
Redwood City Public Library is the main public library system serving the community of Redwood City, California with books, digital resources, and community programs.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Redwood City Public Library canonical | 1 |
| Redwood Shores Branch Library | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T987336 — 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: Redwood City Public Library Context triple: [Redwood City, California, hasPublicSpace, Redwood City Public Library]
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A.
Menlo Park Library
Menlo Park Library is the main public library serving the city of Menlo Park, California, providing community access to books, media, programs, and educational resources.
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B.
San Francisco Public Library
The San Francisco Public Library is the city’s main public library system, providing free access to books, digital resources, and community programs through a central library and neighborhood branches.
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C.
Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library is the landmark central library of Los Angeles, renowned for its distinctive architecture, extensive collections, and role as a major cultural and educational hub for the city.
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D.
Oceanside Library
Oceanside Library is the public library serving the community of Oceanside in Nassau County, New York, offering lending materials, programs, and services to local residents.
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E.
Stanford Auxiliary Library
The Stanford Auxiliary Library is an off-campus high-density storage facility that houses and preserves lesser-used materials from the Stanford University Libraries system.
- 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: Redwood City Public Library Target entity description: Redwood City Public Library is the main public library system serving the community of Redwood City, California with books, digital resources, and community programs.
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A.
Menlo Park Library
Menlo Park Library is the main public library serving the city of Menlo Park, California, providing community access to books, media, programs, and educational resources.
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B.
San Francisco Public Library
The San Francisco Public Library is the city’s main public library system, providing free access to books, digital resources, and community programs through a central library and neighborhood branches.
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C.
Los Angeles Public Library
The Los Angeles Public Library is the landmark central library of Los Angeles, renowned for its distinctive architecture, extensive collections, and role as a major cultural and educational hub for the city.
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D.
Oceanside Library
Oceanside Library is the public library serving the community of Oceanside in Nassau County, New York, offering lending materials, programs, and services to local residents.
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E.
Stanford Auxiliary Library
The Stanford Auxiliary Library is an off-campus high-density storage facility that houses and preserves lesser-used materials from the Stanford University Libraries system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
library
ⓘ
public library system ⓘ |
| buildingType | public building ⓘ |
| catalogType | online catalog ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fundedBy |
City of Redwood City
ⓘ
linked to:
Redwood City, California
|
| governedBy |
Redwood City government
ⓘ
linked to:
Redwood City, California
|
| hasBranch |
Downtown Library
ⓘ
Redwood Shores Branch Library ⓘ
linked to:
Redwood City Public Library
Schaberg Branch Library ⓘ |
| hasCollectionType |
books
ⓘ
digital resources ⓘ |
| hasProgramType |
cultural events
ⓘ
educational workshops ⓘ literacy programs ⓘ summer reading program ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
DVDs
ⓘ
audiobooks ⓘ e-books ⓘ magazines ⓘ research databases ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.redwoodcity.org/departments/library ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Redwood City, California ⓘ San Mateo County, California ⓘ |
| offers | community programs ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
City of Redwood City
ⓘ
linked to:
Redwood City, California
|
| providesService |
adult programs
ⓘ
children’s programs ⓘ computer access ⓘ events and workshops ⓘ homework help ⓘ meeting room space ⓘ public internet access ⓘ storytime programs ⓘ teen programs ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Peninsula region of the San Francisco Bay Area
ⓘ
linked to:
San Francisco Peninsula
|
| sector | public ⓘ |
| serves | community of Redwood City, California ⓘ |
| serviceArea | Redwood City, California ⓘ |
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: Redwood City Public Library Description of subject: Redwood City Public Library is the main public library system serving the community of Redwood City, California with books, digital resources, and community programs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Redwood City Public Library