Hobbs, New Mexico
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Hobbs, New Mexico is a city in southeastern New Mexico known for its oil and gas industry and role as a regional economic and educational hub near the Texas border.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hobbs, New Mexico canonical | 12 |
| Hobbs | 2 |
| Hobbs, NM micropolitan area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4080502 — 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: Hobbs, New Mexico Context triple: [New Mexico's 2nd congressional district, containsCity, Hobbs, New Mexico]
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A.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces, New Mexico is a city in southern New Mexico known as a regional hub for education, agriculture, and technology, and as the home of New Mexico State University.
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B.
Hope, New Mexico
Hope, New Mexico is a small unincorporated rural community located in Eddy County in southeastern New Mexico.
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C.
Gallup, New Mexico
Gallup, New Mexico is a historic city in western New Mexico known for its strong Native American cultural presence and its role as a prominent stop along the former U.S. Route 66.
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D.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
Bloomfield, New Mexico is a small city in San Juan County known as a gateway community to the ancient Ancestral Puebloan ruins of northwestern New Mexico.
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E.
Williamsburg, New Mexico
Williamsburg, New Mexico is a small village in Sierra County in southern New Mexico, located near the Rio Grande and adjacent to the city of Truth or Consequences.
- 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: Hobbs, New Mexico Target entity description: Hobbs, New Mexico is a city in southeastern New Mexico known for its oil and gas industry and role as a regional economic and educational hub near the Texas border.
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A.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Las Cruces, New Mexico is a city in southern New Mexico known as a regional hub for education, agriculture, and technology, and as the home of New Mexico State University.
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B.
Hope, New Mexico
Hope, New Mexico is a small unincorporated rural community located in Eddy County in southeastern New Mexico.
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C.
Gallup, New Mexico
Gallup, New Mexico is a historic city in western New Mexico known for its strong Native American cultural presence and its role as a prominent stop along the former U.S. Route 66.
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D.
Bloomfield, New Mexico
Bloomfield, New Mexico is a small city in San Juan County known as a gateway community to the ancient Ancestral Puebloan ruins of northwestern New Mexico.
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E.
Williamsburg, New Mexico
Williamsburg, New Mexico is a small village in Sierra County in southern New Mexico, located near the Rio Grande and adjacent to the city of Truth or Consequences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Hobbs, New Mexico Description of subject: Hobbs, New Mexico is a city in southeastern New Mexico known for its oil and gas industry and role as a regional economic and educational hub near the Texas border.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hobbs, NM micropolitan area
this entity surface form:
Hobbs
this entity surface form:
Hobbs
subject surface form:
Lovington, New Mexico