California Men's Colony
E186898
California Men's Colony is a state prison facility in San Luis Obispo, California, known for housing a range of inmates including notable figures such as counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| California Men's Colony canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1640284 — 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: California Men's Colony Context triple: [Timothy Leary, imprisonedAt, California Men's Colony]
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A.
Hilgard Hall
Hilgard Hall is a historic academic building at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily associated with agricultural and plant sciences.
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B.
Revelle College
Revelle College is one of the undergraduate residential colleges at the University of California, San Diego, known for its rigorous, science-focused curriculum and strong general education requirements.
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C.
Throop University
Throop University was the early institutional predecessor of the California Institute of Technology, a leading science and engineering university in Pasadena, California.
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D.
South Hall (UC Berkeley)
South Hall (UC Berkeley) is the oldest surviving building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, notable for its historic Victorian architecture and role in the university’s early academic life.
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E.
Stanford-le-Hope
Stanford-le-Hope is a small town in the unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex, England, known as a commuter settlement with rail links into London.
- 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: California Men's Colony Target entity description: California Men's Colony is a state prison facility in San Luis Obispo, California, known for housing a range of inmates including notable figures such as counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
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A.
Hilgard Hall
Hilgard Hall is a historic academic building at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily associated with agricultural and plant sciences.
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B.
Revelle College
Revelle College is one of the undergraduate residential colleges at the University of California, San Diego, known for its rigorous, science-focused curriculum and strong general education requirements.
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C.
Throop University
Throop University was the early institutional predecessor of the California Institute of Technology, a leading science and engineering university in Pasadena, California.
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D.
South Hall (UC Berkeley)
South Hall (UC Berkeley) is the oldest surviving building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, notable for its historic Victorian architecture and role in the university’s early academic life.
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E.
Stanford-le-Hope
Stanford-le-Hope is a small town in the unitary authority of Thurrock in Essex, England, known as a commuter settlement with rail links into London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
correctional facility
ⓘ
state prison ⓘ |
| abbreviation | CMC ⓘ |
| category |
California state prison
ⓘ
men's prison in the United States ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genderOfPopulation | male ⓘ |
| hasFacilityType |
Level II prison
ⓘ
Level III prison ⓘ |
| hasNotableInmate | Timothy Leary ⓘ |
| hasProgram |
educational programs for inmates
ⓘ
mental health services for inmates ⓘ religious services for inmates ⓘ substance abuse treatment programs ⓘ vocational training programs ⓘ |
| inmateType | adult offenders ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
State of California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| knownFor | housing a range of inmates including notable public figures ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
San Luis Obispo County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo, California ⓘ
linked to:
San Luis Obispo
|
| locatedOn | Central Coast of California ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
ⓘ
linked to:
California state prison system
|
| ownedBy |
State of California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| partOf | California state prison system ⓘ |
| purpose |
incarceration of convicted offenders
ⓘ
rehabilitation of inmates ⓘ |
| securityClassification |
medium security
ⓘ
minimum security ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| supervisedBy | warden of California Men's Colony ⓘ |
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: California Men's Colony Description of subject: California Men's Colony is a state prison facility in San Luis Obispo, California, known for housing a range of inmates including notable figures such as counterculture icon Timothy Leary.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.