Ames, Texas
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Ames, Texas is a small city in southeastern Texas known for its rural character and location within the Houston metropolitan area.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ames, Texas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10667551 — 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: Ames, Texas Context triple: [Liberty County, Texas, containsSettlement, Ames, Texas]
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A.
Athens, Texas
Athens, Texas is a small East Texas city known for its historic downtown, outdoor recreation on nearby lakes, and role as a regional hub between Dallas and Tyler.
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B.
Alexander, Texas
Alexander, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Erath County in north-central Texas.
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C.
Willis, Texas
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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D.
New London, Texas
New London, Texas is a small East Texas town best known as the site of the 1937 New London School explosion, one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history.
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E.
Hamilton, Texas
Hamilton, Texas is a small rural city in central Texas that serves as the county seat of Hamilton County and a local hub for agriculture and ranching.
- 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: Ames, Texas Target entity description: Ames, Texas is a small city in southeastern Texas known for its rural character and location within the Houston metropolitan area.
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A.
Athens, Texas
Athens, Texas is a small East Texas city known for its historic downtown, outdoor recreation on nearby lakes, and role as a regional hub between Dallas and Tyler.
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B.
Alexander, Texas
Alexander, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Erath County in north-central Texas.
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C.
Willis, Texas
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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D.
New London, Texas
New London, Texas is a small East Texas town best known as the site of the 1937 New London School explosion, one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history.
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E.
Hamilton, Texas
Hamilton, Texas is a small rural city in central Texas that serves as the county seat of Hamilton County and a local hub for agriculture and ranching.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| adjacentTo | Liberty, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaCode | 936 ⓘ |
| areaLandSquareMiles | 1.9 ⓘ |
| areaTotalSquareMiles | 1.9 ⓘ |
| areaWaterSquareMiles | 0.0 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Liberty County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicCharacter | commuter community for Houston metropolitan area ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 39 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 12 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48-03012 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1351064 ⓘ |
| governmentType | general-law city ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
low-lying terrain
ⓘ
residential rural community ⓘ |
| latitude | 30.047 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southeastern Texas ⓘ |
| longitude | -94.769 ⓘ |
| majorHighwayAccess |
Farm to Market Road 160
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedFor | local landowner or family named Ames (uncertain origin) ⓘ |
| partOf | Houston metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | 1003 ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| populationEstimate | 1100 ⓘ |
| populationEstimateYear | 2019 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 77575 ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ruralCharacter | predominantly rural ⓘ |
| servedBySchoolDistrict | Liberty Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Ames, Texas Description of subject: Ames, Texas is a small city in southeastern Texas known for its rural character and location within the Houston metropolitan area.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.