Webb County, Texas
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Webb County, Texas is a large county in South Texas along the U.S.–Mexico border, best known for encompassing the border city of Laredo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Webb County, Texas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5418751 — 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: Webb County, Texas Context triple: [Laredo, Texas, locatedIn, Webb County, Texas]
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A.
Parker County, Texas
Parker County, Texas is a suburban and semi-rural county just west of Fort Worth that forms part of the greater Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
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B.
Cooke County, Texas
Cooke County, Texas is a largely rural county in north-central Texas known for its county seat of Gainesville and its location along the Oklahoma border within the greater Dallas–Fort Worth region.
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C.
Ellis County, Texas
Ellis County, Texas is a county in north-central Texas that forms part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area and includes the city of Waxahachie as its county seat.
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D.
Washington County, Texas
Washington County, Texas is a historic county in southeastern Texas known as the "Birthplace of Texas" for its role in the Texas Revolution and home to the city of Brenham.
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E.
Blanco County, Texas
Blanco County, Texas is a rural county in the Texas Hill Country known for its scenic landscapes, small-town communities, and outdoor recreation opportunities.
- 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: Webb County, Texas Target entity description: Webb County, Texas is a large county in South Texas along the U.S.–Mexico border, best known for encompassing the border city of Laredo.
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A.
Parker County, Texas
Parker County, Texas is a suburban and semi-rural county just west of Fort Worth that forms part of the greater Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
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B.
Cooke County, Texas
Cooke County, Texas is a largely rural county in north-central Texas known for its county seat of Gainesville and its location along the Oklahoma border within the greater Dallas–Fort Worth region.
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C.
Ellis County, Texas
Ellis County, Texas is a county in north-central Texas that forms part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area and includes the city of Waxahachie as its county seat.
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D.
Washington County, Texas
Washington County, Texas is a historic county in southeastern Texas known as the "Birthplace of Texas" for its role in the Texas Revolution and home to the city of Brenham.
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E.
Blanco County, Texas
Blanco County, Texas is a rural county in the Texas Hill Country known for its scenic landscapes, small-town communities, and outdoor recreation opportunities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county in Texas ⓘ |
| borderCounty |
Dimmit County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Duval County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Jim Hogg County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ La Salle County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Maverick County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Zapata County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderMunicipality | Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderRiver | Rio Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bordersCountry | Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| congressionalDistrict | Texas’s 28th congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeat | Laredo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48479 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1376135 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Webb County Commissioners Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Laredo International Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossing | Laredo–Nuevo Laredo border crossings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCensusDesignatedPlace |
Bruni, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
El Cenizo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Veteranos I, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Veteranos II, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Mirando City, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Oilton, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ranchitos Las Lomas, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Rio Bravo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCity | Laredo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommunityCollege | Laredo College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorHighway |
Interstate 35
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas State Highway 359 NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas State Highway 44 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 59 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 83 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicUniversityCampus | Texas A&M International University (in Laredo) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf | United States–Mexico border NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| judicialDistrict | 49th Judicial District of Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largestCity | Laredo, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementAgency | Webb County Sheriff’s Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
South Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S.–Mexico border region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James Webb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Laredo metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicSector |
international trade
ⓘ
logistics and transportation ⓘ |
| primaryLanguageCommunity | Spanish-speaking population ⓘ |
| region |
Brush Country
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rio Grande Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Webb County, Texas Description of subject: Webb County, Texas is a large county in South Texas along the U.S.–Mexico border, best known for encompassing the border city of Laredo.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.