Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
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The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency serving unincorporated areas and contract cities within Santa Clara County, California.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office canonical | 2 |
| Santa Clara County Sheriff | 1 |
| Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office | 1 |
| Santa Clara County law enforcement agencies | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4989957 — 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: Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Context triple: [Monte Sereno, lawEnforcementProvidedBy, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office]
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A.
Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas, operating county jails, and providing public safety services throughout Alameda County, California.
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B.
San Francisco Sheriff’s Office
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office is the county law enforcement agency responsible for operating jails, providing court security, and performing civil and custody-related duties within the City and County of San Francisco.
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C.
Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office
The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, patrol, investigations, and jail operations within Calaveras County, California.
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D.
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas and providing countywide public safety services in Sacramento County, California.
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E.
Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office
The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas and providing countywide public safety services in Contra Costa County, California.
- 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: Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Target entity description: The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency serving unincorporated areas and contract cities within Santa Clara County, California.
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A.
Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas, operating county jails, and providing public safety services throughout Alameda County, California.
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B.
San Francisco Sheriff’s Office
The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office is the county law enforcement agency responsible for operating jails, providing court security, and performing civil and custody-related duties within the City and County of San Francisco.
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C.
Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office
The Calaveras County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for public safety, patrol, investigations, and jail operations within Calaveras County, California.
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D.
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas and providing countywide public safety services in Sacramento County, California.
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E.
Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office
The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency responsible for policing unincorporated areas and providing countywide public safety services in Contra Costa County, California.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county sheriff's office
ⓘ
law enforcement agency ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Santa Clara County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| cooperatesWith |
California Highway Patrol
ⓘ
San Jose Police Department ⓘ federal law enforcement agencies ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| employer |
Santa Clara County Sheriff
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
|
| employs |
civilian staff
ⓘ
correctional officers ⓘ sworn deputies ⓘ |
| governingBody | Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors ⓘ |
| hasDivision |
administrative services division
ⓘ
court services division ⓘ custody division ⓘ investigations division ⓘ patrol division ⓘ |
| hasMotto | law enforcement and public safety in Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
San Jose, California
ⓘ
linked to:
San Jose
|
| jurisdiction |
contract cities in Santa Clara County
ⓘ
unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementType | local law enforcement ⓘ |
| leaderTitle | Sheriff ⓘ |
| legalForm | public agency ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| operates | Santa Clara County jails ⓘ |
| operatesInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity |
Santa Clara County, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| parentOrganization |
County of Santa Clara
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County
|
| partOf |
Santa Clara County government
ⓘ
linked to:
Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
|
| responsibility |
corrections services
ⓘ
court security ⓘ criminal investigations ⓘ law enforcement ⓘ patrol services ⓘ |
| sector |
criminal justice
ⓘ
public safety ⓘ |
| serviceArea |
rural areas of Santa Clara County
ⓘ
suburban areas of Santa Clara County ⓘ |
| state |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
|
| uses |
marked patrol vehicles
ⓘ
police radio communications ⓘ unmarked patrol vehicles ⓘ |
| website | official website of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office ⓘ |
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: Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Description of subject: The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office is the primary law enforcement agency serving unincorporated areas and contract cities within Santa Clara County, California.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
linked to: Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office
linked to: Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office