Cushing, Oklahoma
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Cushing, Oklahoma is a major U.S. oil storage and pipeline hub that serves as the primary delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cushing, Oklahoma canonical | 5 |
| Cushing, Oklahoma oil hub | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521787 — 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: Cushing, Oklahoma Context triple: [WTI crude oil futures, deliveryLocation, Cushing, Oklahoma]
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A.
Oologah, Oklahoma
Oologah, Oklahoma is a small town in northeastern Oklahoma best known as the boyhood home of humorist Will Rogers and its proximity to Oologah Lake.
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B.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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C.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee, Oklahoma is a city in eastern Oklahoma known historically as a regional commercial and transportation hub and for its role in Native American and frontier history.
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D.
Madill, Oklahoma
Madill, Oklahoma is a small city in southern Oklahoma that serves as the county seat of Marshall County and a local hub within the Texoma region.
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E.
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Okmulgee, Oklahoma is a small city in eastern Oklahoma that serves as the governmental and cultural center of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
- 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: Cushing, Oklahoma Target entity description: Cushing, Oklahoma is a major U.S. oil storage and pipeline hub that serves as the primary delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil.
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A.
Oologah, Oklahoma
Oologah, Oklahoma is a small town in northeastern Oklahoma best known as the boyhood home of humorist Will Rogers and its proximity to Oologah Lake.
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B.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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C.
Muskogee, Oklahoma
Muskogee, Oklahoma is a city in eastern Oklahoma known historically as a regional commercial and transportation hub and for its role in Native American and frontier history.
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D.
Madill, Oklahoma
Madill, Oklahoma is a small city in southern Oklahoma that serves as the county seat of Marshall County and a local hub within the Texoma region.
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E.
Okmulgee, Oklahoma
Okmulgee, Oklahoma is a small city in eastern Oklahoma that serves as the governmental and cultural center of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
oil storage hub ⓘ pipeline hub ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommodity |
West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light sweet crude oil
ⓘ
surface form:
West Texas Intermediate crude oil
crude oil ⓘ |
| connectedBy | crude oil pipelines ⓘ |
| connectedToRegion |
Peace River oil sands
ⓘ
surface form:
Canadian oil sands region
Valero Port Arthur Refinery ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf Coast refining centers
Permian Basin ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| dataReportedAs | Cushing crude oil stocks ⓘ |
| economicSector |
energy industry
ⓘ
oil and gas industry ⓘ |
| governedBy | City government of Cushing ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
crude oil blending
ⓘ
crude oil distribution ⓘ crude oil storage ⓘ crude oil transportation ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
large crude oil storage tanks
ⓘ
oil terminals ⓘ pipeline interconnections ⓘ |
| hasMeasurementRole |
indicator for U.S. oil supply levels
ⓘ
reference point for U.S. crude oil inventories ⓘ |
| hasRole |
primary delivery point for West Texas Intermediate crude oil
ⓘ
primary pricing point for West Texas Intermediate crude oil ⓘ |
| hasStrategicImportance |
critical hub for crude oil futures delivery
ⓘ
key node in U.S. energy infrastructure ⓘ |
| influences |
U.S. inland crude oil prices
ⓘ
WTI-Brent crude oil price spread ⓘ |
| isKnownAs | Pipeline Crossroads of the World ⓘ |
| isMonitoredBy |
Office of Energy Information and Analysis
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. Energy Information Administration
|
| linkedTo |
CME WTI benchmark price
ⓘ
NYMEX WTI benchmark price ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Oklahoma
ⓘ
Payne County, Oklahoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Marshall Cushing ⓘ |
| nearbyMajorCity | Oklahoma City ⓘ |
| partOf |
Cushing oil hub
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. midcontinent oil market
|
| playsRoleIn |
North American crude oil distribution
ⓘ
U.S. oil market logistics ⓘ global crude oil pricing ⓘ |
| regulatoryJurisdiction |
U.S. state of Oklahoma
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Oklahoma
United States government ⓘ
surface form:
United States federal government
|
| servesAs |
delivery point for CME Group WTI crude oil futures contracts
ⓘ
delivery point for NYMEX WTI crude oil futures contracts ⓘ |
| transportMode |
pipeline transportation
ⓘ
rail transportation of crude oil ⓘ |
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: Cushing, Oklahoma Description of subject: Cushing, Oklahoma is a major U.S. oil storage and pipeline hub that serves as the primary delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cushing, Oklahoma oil hub
subject surface form:
Yale, Oklahoma