Smithville, Texas
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Smithville, Texas is a small historic town in Central Texas known for its charming downtown and its role as a filming location for several movies, including "Hope Floats."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Smithville, Texas canonical | 2 |
| City of Smithville, Texas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6975957 — 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: Smithville, Texas Context triple: [Hope Floats, filmingLocation, Smithville, Texas]
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A.
Marysville, Texas
Marysville, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Cooke County in north-central Texas.
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B.
Madisonville, Texas
Madisonville, Texas is a small city in Madison County that serves as the county seat and a regional hub in East-Central Texas.
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C.
Clarksville, Texas
Clarksville, Texas is a small historic city in northeastern Texas known for its role as an early commercial and cultural center in the Red River region.
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D.
Springtown, Texas
Springtown, Texas is a small rural city in North Texas known for its close-knit community and location within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
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E.
Mineola, Texas
Mineola, Texas is a small East Texas city known as a regional hub for railroads, agriculture, and antique shopping.
- 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: Smithville, Texas Target entity description: Smithville, Texas is a small historic town in Central Texas known for its charming downtown and its role as a filming location for several movies, including "Hope Floats."
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A.
Marysville, Texas
Marysville, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Cooke County in north-central Texas.
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B.
Madisonville, Texas
Madisonville, Texas is a small city in Madison County that serves as the county seat and a regional hub in East-Central Texas.
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C.
Clarksville, Texas
Clarksville, Texas is a small historic city in northeastern Texas known for its role as an early commercial and cultural center in the Red River region.
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D.
Springtown, Texas
Springtown, Texas is a small rural city in North Texas known for its close-knit community and location within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
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E.
Mineola, Texas
Mineola, Texas is a small East Texas city known as a regional hub for railroads, agriculture, and antique shopping.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode |
512
ⓘ
737 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| county | Bastrop County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo | approximately 42 miles southeast of Austin, Texas ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
film-related tourism
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 338 feet ⓘ |
| filmingLocationFor |
Bernie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hope Floats NERFINISHED ⓘ Tree of Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48-68272 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1368672 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Smithville City Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Smithville Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
historic town
ⓘ
small town ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Smithville Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEvent |
Jamboree festival
ⓘ
annual Festival of Lights ⓘ |
| hasFeature | historic downtown ⓘ |
| hasHighSchool | Smithville High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricDistrict | Smithville Commercial Historic District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPark | Buescher State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 78957 ⓘ |
| hasPublicLibrary | Smithville Public Library NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicRole | railroad town ⓘ |
| incorporationStatus | incorporated city ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charming downtown
ⓘ
film location ⓘ movie production ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Central Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn | Colorado River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Thomas J. Smith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyCity |
Bastrop, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
La Grange, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfMetropolitanArea | Greater Austin region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Texas Hill Country fringe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | CST ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CDT ⓘ |
| transportInfrastructure |
Texas State Highway 71
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas State Highway 95 NERFINISHED ⓘ Union Pacific Railroad line NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Smithville, Texas Description of subject: Smithville, Texas is a small historic town in Central Texas known for its charming downtown and its role as a filming location for several movies, including "Hope Floats."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
City of Smithville, Texas