Colma
E19127
Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, best known for its numerous cemeteries and nickname as the "City of Souls."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Colma canonical | 8 |
| Town of Colma | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30766 — 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: Colma Context triple: [El Camino Real, passesThrough, Colma]
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A.
Belmont
Belmont is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
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B.
Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley known for its waterfront along the Hudson River and its significant role in early American history.
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C.
Peabody
Peabody is a suburban city in northeastern Massachusetts known for its location on the North Shore and its historical ties to the leather industry.
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D.
Tarry Town
Tarry Town is a fictional Hudson Valley village in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” closely associated with the eerie, supernatural atmosphere surrounding Sleepy Hollow.
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E.
Bern
Bern is the capital city of Switzerland, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and role as a political and cultural center.
- 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: Colma Target entity description: Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, best known for its numerous cemeteries and nickname as the "City of Souls."
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A.
Belmont
Belmont is a suburban town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, known for its residential character and proximity to Boston.
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B.
Newburgh, New York
Newburgh, New York is a historic city in the Hudson Valley known for its waterfront along the Hudson River and its significant role in early American history.
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C.
Peabody
Peabody is a suburban city in northeastern Massachusetts known for its location on the North Shore and its historical ties to the leather industry.
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D.
Tarry Town
Tarry Town is a fictional Hudson Valley village in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” closely associated with the eerie, supernatural atmosphere surrounding Sleepy Hollow.
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E.
Bern
Bern is the capital city of Switzerland, known for its well-preserved medieval old town and role as a political and cultural center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Colma Description of subject: Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, best known for its numerous cemeteries and nickname as the "City of Souls."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Colma