Stanford, California
E94405
Stanford, California is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara County best known as the home of Stanford University and its surrounding campus.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stanford, California canonical | 285 |
| Stanford, California, United States | 22 |
| Stanford, California, United States of America | 5 |
| Stanford University area | 1 |
| Stanford, California (region) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140597 — 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: Stanford, California Context triple: [Stanford University, locatedIn, Stanford, California]
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A.
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.
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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.
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C.
Berkeley
Berkeley is a culturally vibrant and politically progressive city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its historic association with higher education and social activism.
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D.
Redwood City, California
Redwood City, California is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Silicon Valley, known for its historic downtown and role as the county seat of San Mateo County.
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E.
San Mateo
San Mateo is a city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its suburban neighborhoods, parks, and role as a commercial and residential hub on the Peninsula.
- 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: Stanford, California Target entity description: Stanford, California is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara County best known as the home of Stanford University and its surrounding campus.
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A.
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.
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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.
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C.
Berkeley
Berkeley is a culturally vibrant and politically progressive city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its historic association with higher education and social activism.
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D.
Redwood City, California
Redwood City, California is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Silicon Valley, known for its historic downtown and role as the county seat of San Mateo County.
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E.
San Mateo
San Mateo is a city in California’s San Francisco Bay Area, known for its suburban neighborhoods, parks, and role as a commercial and residential hub on the Peninsula.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Stanford, California Description of subject: Stanford, California is an unincorporated community in Santa Clara County best known as the home of Stanford University and its surrounding campus.
Referenced by (314)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Stanford, California
subject linked to:
School of Engineering
subject linked to:
School of Medicine
linked to: Stanford, California
linked to: Stanford, California
linked to: Stanford, California
linked to: Stanford, California
subject linked to:
Los Altos Hills, California, United States
linked to: Stanford, California
linked to: Stanford, California