Mountain View, California, United States

E136669

city municipality

Mountain View, California, United States is a Silicon Valley city known as a major technology hub and home to numerous high-profile tech companies.

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All labels observed (8)

Label	Occurrences
Mountain View, California	134
Mountain View, California, United States canonical	28
City of Mountain View, California	2
Mountain View California United States	1
Mountain View, California (headquarters)	1
Mountain View, California (primary)	1
Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California	1
separate from Googleplex in Mountain View	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T264688 — 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: Mountain View, California, United States
Context triple: [LinkedIn, previousHeadquartersLocation, Mountain View, California, United States]

A. Santa Clara, California, United States
Santa Clara is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley known for its concentration of high-tech companies, including serving as a key hub for the technology industry in the United States.
B. Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California is a city in Silicon Valley known as a hub for technology and venture capital, home to major research institutions and tech companies.
C. Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California
Mountain View is a small unincorporated community located in Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
D. Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
E. San Bruno, California, United States
San Bruno is a small city in San Mateo County, California, best known in recent years as the home of YouTube’s corporate headquarters.
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: Mountain View, California, United States
Target entity description: Mountain View, California, United States is a Silicon Valley city known as a major technology hub and home to numerous high-profile tech companies.

A. Santa Clara, California, United States
Santa Clara is a major city in California’s Silicon Valley known for its concentration of high-tech companies, including serving as a key hub for the technology industry in the United States.
B. Menlo Park, California
Menlo Park, California is a city in Silicon Valley known as a hub for technology and venture capital, home to major research institutions and tech companies.
C. Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California
Mountain View is a small unincorporated community located in Contra Costa County in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
D. Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California is a major Silicon Valley city known for its role as a global technology and innovation hub and as the home of Stanford University.
E. San Bruno, California, United States
San Bruno is a small city in San Mateo County, California, best known in recent years as the home of YouTube’s corporate headquarters.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	city ⓘ municipality ⓘ
areaCode	650 ⓘ
borderedBy	Los Altos, California, United States ⓘ Moffett Federal Airfield ⓘ linked to: Moffett Field, California Palo Alto, California, United States ⓘ linked to: Palo Alto, California Sunnyvale, California, United States ⓘ
climate	Mediterranean climate ⓘ
country	United States ⓘ linked to: United States of America
county	Santa Clara County ⓘ
elevation	approximately 105 feet ⓘ
GNISFeatureID	241109 ⓘ
governmentType	council–manager ⓘ
hasCampus	Googleplex ⓘ
hasCityCouncil	Mountain View City Council ⓘ
hasFreeway	California State Route 237 ⓘ California State Route 85 ⓘ U.S. Route 101 ⓘ
hasInstitution	NASA Ames Research Center (nearby at Moffett Field) ⓘ linked to: Ames Research Center
hasMuseum	Computer History Museum ⓘ
hasPark	Shoreline Park ⓘ
hasPerformingArtsCenter	Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts ⓘ
hasSchoolDistrict	Mountain View Whisman School District ⓘ Mountain View–Los Altos Union High School District ⓘ
hasVenue	Shoreline Amphitheatre ⓘ
headquartersOf	Alphabet Inc. ⓘ Google ⓘ Intuit ⓘ LinkedIn ⓘ Mozilla Foundation ⓘ Pure Storage ⓘ Symantec (historically) ⓘ linked to: Symantec Synopsys (historically associated) ⓘ linked to: Synopsys (major offices)
incorporated	1902 ⓘ
knownFor	being a major Silicon Valley hub ⓘ headquarters of major technology companies ⓘ technology industry ⓘ
locatedIn	Silicon Valley ⓘ
locatedInTimeZone	Pacific Time Zone ⓘ
mayorTitle	Mayor of Mountain View ⓘ
namedFor	views of the Santa Cruz Mountains ⓘ
near	San Francisco Bay ⓘ
partOf	San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara metropolitan area ⓘ linked to: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metropolitan area
populationEstimate	approximately 80,000 ⓘ
postalCodePrefix	940 ⓘ
region	San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ
servedBy	Caltrain ⓘ VTA light rail ⓘ
state	California ⓘ linked to: California, United States
timeZone	PDT ⓘ PST ⓘ