Austin, Texas, United States
E108500
Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, known for its vibrant live music scene, tech industry, and cultural diversity.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Austin, Texas, United States canonical | 78 |
| Austin, Texas (Oracle corporate headquarters location as of 2024) | 1 |
| Austin, Texas (reported) | 1 |
| AustinTexasHeadquarters | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T513477 — 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: Austin, Texas, United States Context triple: [Dennis Johnson, placeOfDeath, Austin, Texas, United States]
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A.
Frisco, Texas
Frisco, Texas is a rapidly growing suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its sports venues, retail centers, and family-friendly communities.
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B.
Abilene, Texas, United States
Abilene, Texas, United States is a city in west-central Texas known historically as a key railroad and cattle-shipping center and today as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and the military.
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C.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas is a major metropolitan city in northern Texas known for its role as a commercial and cultural hub, particularly in finance, technology, and telecommunications.
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D.
Arlington, Texas
Arlington, Texas is a major city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex known for hosting the Dallas Cowboys’ home stadium and serving as a regional hub for sports and entertainment.
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E.
Huntsville, Texas, United States
Huntsville is a small East Texas city known for its historic association with Sam Houston and as the site of several major Texas state prisons.
- 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: Austin, Texas, United States Target entity description: Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, known for its vibrant live music scene, tech industry, and cultural diversity.
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A.
Frisco, Texas
Frisco, Texas is a rapidly growing suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its sports venues, retail centers, and family-friendly communities.
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B.
Abilene, Texas, United States
Abilene, Texas, United States is a city in west-central Texas known historically as a key railroad and cattle-shipping center and today as a regional hub for education, healthcare, and the military.
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C.
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas is a major metropolitan city in northern Texas known for its role as a commercial and cultural hub, particularly in finance, technology, and telecommunications.
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D.
Arlington, Texas
Arlington, Texas is a major city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex known for hosting the Dallas Cowboys’ home stadium and serving as a regional hub for sports and entertainment.
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E.
Huntsville, Texas, United States
Huntsville is a small East Texas city known for its historic association with Sam Houston and as the site of several major Texas state prisons.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
state capital ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| coordinateLocation | 30.2672° N, 97.7431° W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countySeatOf |
Travis County, Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Travis County
|
| demonym | Austinite ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
149 m
ⓘ
489 ft ⓘ |
| foundedAs | Waterloo ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasAirport |
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
ⓘ
surface form:
Austin–Bergstrom International Airport
|
| hasLake |
Lady Bird Lake
ⓘ
Lake Austin ⓘ Lake Travis ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Travis (nearby, on Colorado River)
|
| hasPublicTransitSystem | Capital Metro ⓘ |
| hasUniversity |
University of Texas at Austin
ⓘ
surface form:
The University of Texas at Austin
|
| hosts |
Austin City Limits Music Festival
ⓘ
Austin City Limits television show tapings ⓘ SXSW festival ⓘ
surface form:
South by Southwest (SXSW)
|
| isCapitalOf | Texas ⓘ |
| isStateCapitalBuildingLocation | Texas State Capitol ⓘ |
| knownFor |
cultural diversity
ⓘ
live music scene ⓘ technology industry ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Hays County
ⓘ
Travis County, Texas ⓘ
surface form:
Travis County
Williamson County ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| majorIndustry |
education
ⓘ
government ⓘ music and entertainment ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| motto | Keep Austin Weird ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Stephen F. Austin ⓘ |
| nickname | Live Music Capital of the World ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | English ⓘ |
| partOf |
Greater Austin metropolitan area
ⓘ
surface form:
Austin–Round Rock metropolitan area
Hill Country of Texas ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Hill Country (edge)
|
| population | approximately 975000 (city proper, early 2020s) ⓘ |
| populationUrbanArea | over 2 million (metro area, early 2020s) ⓘ |
| region |
central Texas
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Texas
|
| river | Colorado River (Texas) ⓘ |
| roadNetworkNodeOn |
Interstate 35
ⓘ
Texas State Highway 71 ⓘ MoPac Expressway ⓘ
surface form:
Texas State Highway Loop 1 (MoPac Expressway)
U.S. Route 183 ⓘ |
| sportsTeam |
Austin FC
ⓘ
Texas Longhorns ⓘ
surface form:
Texas Longhorns (University of Texas at Austin)
|
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| 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: Austin, Texas, United States Description of subject: Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, known for its vibrant live music scene, tech industry, and cultural diversity.
Referenced by (81)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lady Bird Johnson
this entity surface form:
AustinTexasHeadquarters