Vernon, Texas, United States
E202857
Vernon, Texas, United States, is a small North Texas city best known as the birthplace of rock and roll legend Roy Orbison.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vernon, Texas, United States canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1821116 — 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: Vernon, Texas, United States Context triple: [Roy Orbison, birthPlace, Vernon, Texas, United States]
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A.
Taylor, Texas, United States
Taylor, Texas, United States, is a small Central Texas city in Williamson County known historically as a railroad and agricultural hub within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
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B.
Crosbyton, Texas, United States
Crosbyton, Texas, United States is a small rural city on the South Plains of West Texas that serves as the county seat of Crosby County.
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C.
Bonham, Texas, United States
Bonham is a small city in northeastern Texas that serves as the county seat of Fannin County and is historically associated with longtime U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
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D.
Crawford, Texas, United States
Crawford, Texas, United States is a small rural town in central Texas best known as the site of former U.S. President George W. Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch.
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E.
Denison, Texas, United States
Denison, Texas, United States, is a North Texas city best known as the birthplace of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- 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: Vernon, Texas, United States Target entity description: Vernon, Texas, United States, is a small North Texas city best known as the birthplace of rock and roll legend Roy Orbison.
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A.
Taylor, Texas, United States
Taylor, Texas, United States, is a small Central Texas city in Williamson County known historically as a railroad and agricultural hub within the Greater Austin metropolitan area.
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B.
Crosbyton, Texas, United States
Crosbyton, Texas, United States is a small rural city on the South Plains of West Texas that serves as the county seat of Crosby County.
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C.
Bonham, Texas, United States
Bonham is a small city in northeastern Texas that serves as the county seat of Fannin County and is historically associated with longtime U.S. House Speaker Sam Rayburn.
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D.
Crawford, Texas, United States
Crawford, Texas, United States is a small rural town in central Texas best known as the site of former U.S. President George W. Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch.
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E.
Denison, Texas, United States
Denison, Texas, United States, is a North Texas city best known as the birthplace of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Vernon, Texas, United States Description of subject: Vernon, Texas, United States, is a small North Texas city best known as the birthplace of rock and roll legend Roy Orbison.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ken Starr