former San Mateo County Courthouse
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The former San Mateo County Courthouse is a historic Beaux-Arts style civic building in Redwood City, California, now preserved as a landmark and cultural center.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| former San Mateo County Courthouse canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5169714 — 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: former San Mateo County Courthouse Context triple: [San Mateo County History Museum, occupies, former San Mateo County Courthouse]
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A.
Contra Costa County Courthouse
Contra Costa County Courthouse is the main judicial complex and historic county government building serving Contra Costa County in Martinez, California.
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B.
Riverside County Historic Courthouse
Riverside County Historic Courthouse is a Beaux-Arts style landmark courthouse in downtown Riverside, California, renowned for its grand architecture and role as a centerpiece of the city's civic and historic district.
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C.
Santa Barbara County Courthouse
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse is a historic California landmark renowned for its ornate Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, lush sunken gardens, and panoramic clock tower views.
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D.
Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse
The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse is a major federal office and judicial complex in San Francisco that houses multiple U.S. government agencies and courtrooms.
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E.
Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse
The Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse is a federal courthouse in Sacramento, California, named in honor of longtime Congressman Robert T. Matsui.
- 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: former San Mateo County Courthouse Target entity description: The former San Mateo County Courthouse is a historic Beaux-Arts style civic building in Redwood City, California, now preserved as a landmark and cultural center.
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A.
Contra Costa County Courthouse
Contra Costa County Courthouse is the main judicial complex and historic county government building serving Contra Costa County in Martinez, California.
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B.
Riverside County Historic Courthouse
Riverside County Historic Courthouse is a Beaux-Arts style landmark courthouse in downtown Riverside, California, renowned for its grand architecture and role as a centerpiece of the city's civic and historic district.
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C.
Santa Barbara County Courthouse
The Santa Barbara County Courthouse is a historic California landmark renowned for its ornate Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, lush sunken gardens, and panoramic clock tower views.
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D.
Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse
The Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Courthouse is a major federal office and judicial complex in San Francisco that houses multiple U.S. government agencies and courtrooms.
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E.
Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse
The Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse is a federal courthouse in Sacramento, California, named in honor of longtime Congressman Robert T. Matsui.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Beaux-Arts building
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civic building ⓘ cultural center ⓘ historic courthouse ⓘ landmark ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Beaux-Arts ⓘ |
| city |
Redwood City
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linked to:
Redwood City, California
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| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| county |
San Mateo County
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linked to:
San Mateo County, California
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| formerUse | county courthouse ⓘ |
| function |
hosts cultural events
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serves as community gathering place ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | historic landmark ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
Redwood City, California ⓘ San Mateo County, California ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| ownedBy |
San Mateo County
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linked to:
San Mateo County, California
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| preservationStatus |
landmark
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preserved ⓘ |
| publicAccess | yes ⓘ |
| significance |
example of Beaux-Arts civic design in California
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historic civic architecture in Redwood City ⓘ |
| state |
California
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linked to:
California, United States
|
| use |
cultural center
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public building ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: former San Mateo County Courthouse Description of subject: The former San Mateo County Courthouse is a historic Beaux-Arts style civic building in Redwood City, California, now preserved as a landmark and cultural center.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.