Willis, Texas
E458131
Willis, Texas is a small city in Montgomery County that serves as a northern suburban community within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Willis, Texas canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2928048 — 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: Willis, Texas Context triple: [Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area, containsCity, Willis, Texas]
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A.
Wylie, Texas
Wylie, Texas is a rapidly growing suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its family-friendly neighborhoods and proximity to major urban centers.
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B.
Weatherford, Texas
Weatherford, Texas is a historic North Texas city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its Western heritage, peach industry, and small-town charm.
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C.
Wilmer, Texas
Wilmer, Texas is a small city in Dallas County that forms part of the southern Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
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D.
Ennis, Texas
Ennis, Texas is a small city in North Texas known for its annual National Polka Festival and its designation as the “Official Bluebonnet City of Texas.”
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E.
Leo, Texas
Leo, Texas is a small rural unincorporated community located in Cooke County in north-central Texas.
- 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: Willis, Texas Target entity description: Willis, Texas is a small city in Montgomery County that serves as a northern suburban community within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
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A.
Wylie, Texas
Wylie, Texas is a rapidly growing suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its family-friendly neighborhoods and proximity to major urban centers.
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B.
Weatherford, Texas
Weatherford, Texas is a historic North Texas city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its Western heritage, peach industry, and small-town charm.
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C.
Wilmer, Texas
Wilmer, Texas is a small city in Dallas County that forms part of the southern Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
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D.
Ennis, Texas
Ennis, Texas is a small city in North Texas known for its annual National Polka Festival and its designation as the “Official Bluebonnet City of Texas.”
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E.
Leo, Texas
Leo, Texas is a small rural unincorporated community located in Cooke County in north-central Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 936 ⓘ |
| category |
Cities in Montgomery County, Texas
ⓘ
Cities in Texas ⓘ Houston metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | State of Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | Montgomery County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 50 miles north of Houston, Texas ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
residential suburban community
ⓘ
service-based economy ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 308 feet ⓘ |
| feature | proximity to Lake Conroe ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48-79440 ⓘ |
| foundedAs | railroad town ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1371452 ⓘ |
| governmentType | general law city ⓘ |
| hasLocalGovernment | City of Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalIndustry |
agriculture
ⓘ
cotton ⓘ timber ⓘ |
| isSuburbOf | Houston, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| latitude | 30.424 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
East Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greater Houston metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ Montgomery County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitude | -95.479 ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
Interstate 45
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas State Highway 75 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metropolitanArea | Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Peter J. Willis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Conroe, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Huntsville, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode |
77318
ⓘ
77378 ⓘ |
| publicEducationProvider | Willis Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| schoolDistrict | Willis Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settlementType | city ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| transportation | served by Union Pacific Railroad line ⓘ |
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: Willis, Texas Description of subject: Willis, Texas is a small city in Montgomery County that serves as a northern suburban community within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Montgomery County, Texas