Howard County
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Howard County is a county in western Texas known for its seat, the city of Big Spring, and its role in the region’s oil and gas industry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Howard County canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2300558 — 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: Howard County Context triple: [Texas Panhandle, hasCounty, Howard County]
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A.
Howard County
Howard County is a suburban county in central Maryland known for its affluent communities, strong public school system, and the planned city of Columbia.
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B.
Baltimore County
Baltimore County is a populous county in northern Maryland that surrounds but does not include the independent city of Baltimore and serves as a major suburban and economic hub of the Baltimore metropolitan area.
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C.
Harford County, Maryland
Harford County, Maryland is a county in northeastern Maryland known for its mix of suburban communities, rural landscapes, and proximity to the Chesapeake Bay.
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D.
Kent County, Maryland
Kent County, Maryland is a rural county on Maryland’s Eastern Shore along the Chesapeake Bay, known for its historic waterfront towns and agricultural landscapes.
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E.
Montgomery County
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Alabama that includes the state capital, Montgomery, as its seat and largest city.
- 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: Howard County Target entity description: Howard County is a county in western Texas known for its seat, the city of Big Spring, and its role in the region’s oil and gas industry.
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A.
Howard County
Howard County is a suburban county in central Maryland known for its affluent communities, strong public school system, and the planned city of Columbia.
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B.
Baltimore County
Baltimore County is a populous county in northern Maryland that surrounds but does not include the independent city of Baltimore and serves as a major suburban and economic hub of the Baltimore metropolitan area.
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C.
Harford County, Maryland
Harford County, Maryland is a county in northeastern Maryland known for its mix of suburban communities, rural landscapes, and proximity to the Chesapeake Bay.
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D.
Kent County, Maryland
Kent County, Maryland is a rural county on Maryland’s Eastern Shore along the Chesapeake Bay, known for its historic waterfront towns and agricultural landscapes.
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E.
Montgomery County
Montgomery County is a populous and affluent suburban county just northwest of Washington, D.C., known for its highly rated public schools, biotechnology industry, and diverse communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county in Texas ⓘ |
| areaCode | 432 ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Borden County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glasscock County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Mitchell County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Scurry County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Sterling County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Big Spring McMahon–Wrinkle Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big Spring State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countySeat | Big Spring, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
natural gas extraction ⓘ petroleum production ⓘ ranching ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48-227 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1374243 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Howard County Commissioners Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCity | Big Spring, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCollege | Howard College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunity |
Coahoma, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Forsan, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHighway |
Interstate 20
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas State Highway 176 NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas State Highway 350 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 87 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict |
Big Spring Independent School District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coahoma Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ Forsan Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasZIPCode |
79720
ⓘ
79721 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
natural gas industry
ⓘ
oil industry ⓘ |
| largestCity | Big Spring, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
North America
ⓘ
United States Census Bureau Region South NERFINISHED ⓘ United States Census-designated Midland–Odessa–Big Spring combined statistical area NERFINISHED ⓘ West Texas region NERFINISHED ⓘ western Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Volney E. Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Permian Basin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| subdivisionType | county ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
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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: Howard County Description of subject: Howard County is a county in western Texas known for its seat, the city of Big Spring, and its role in the region’s oil and gas industry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.