Midland, Texas, United States
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Midland, Texas, United States, is an oil-rich city in West Texas known as a major center of the Permian Basin energy industry and for its ties to prominent political families.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Midland, Texas | 18 |
| Midland, Texas, United States canonical | 9 |
| Midland Reporter-Telegram | 1 |
| Midland, Texas region | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1640071 — 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: Midland, Texas, United States Context triple: [Jeb Bush, placeOfBirth, Midland, Texas, United States]
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Abilene, Texas, United States
Abilene, Texas, United States is a city in west-central Texas known historically as a key railroad and cattle-shipping center and today as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and the military.
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Marshall, Texas, United States
Marshall, Texas, United States, is a historic East Texas city known as a center of civil rights activity and the birthplace of civil rights leader James Farmer.
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Crosbyton, Texas, United States
Crosbyton, Texas, United States is a small rural city on the South Plains of West Texas that serves as the county seat of Crosby County.
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Mission, Texas
Mission, Texas is a city in the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, known for its agricultural industry and proximity to the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Taylor, Texas, United States
Taylor, Texas, United States, is a small Central Texas city in Williamson County known historically as a railroad and agricultural hub within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
- 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: Midland, Texas, United States Target entity description: Midland, Texas, United States, is an oil-rich city in West Texas known as a major center of the Permian Basin energy industry and for its ties to prominent political families.
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Abilene, Texas, United States
Abilene, Texas, United States is a city in west-central Texas known historically as a key railroad and cattle-shipping center and today as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and the military.
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B.
Marshall, Texas, United States
Marshall, Texas, United States, is a historic East Texas city known as a center of civil rights activity and the birthplace of civil rights leader James Farmer.
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C.
Crosbyton, Texas, United States
Crosbyton, Texas, United States is a small rural city on the South Plains of West Texas that serves as the county seat of Crosby County.
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Mission, Texas
Mission, Texas is a city in the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, known for its agricultural industry and proximity to the U.S.–Mexico border.
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E.
Taylor, Texas, United States
Taylor, Texas, United States, is a small Central Texas city in Williamson County known historically as a railroad and agricultural hub within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
- 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: Midland, Texas, United States Description of subject: Midland, Texas, United States, is an oil-rich city in West Texas known as a major center of the Permian Basin energy industry and for its ties to prominent political families.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
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Midland, Texas, United States
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Midland, Texas
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Midland Reporter-Telegram
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas region
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Odessa, Texas
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Midland, Texas
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Woody Harrelson