Sealy, Texas
E454949
Sealy, Texas is a small city in Austin County that serves as a western gateway to the Greater Houston metropolitan region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sealy, Texas canonical | 1 |
| Sealy, Texas, United States | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2928046 — 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: Sealy, Texas Context triple: [Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area, containsCity, Sealy, Texas]
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A.
Selden, Texas
Selden, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Erath County in north-central Texas.
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B.
Van Alstyne, Texas
Van Alstyne, Texas is a small North Texas city known for its historic downtown, rural charm, and growing role as a bedroom community between Sherman and the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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C.
Quinlan, Texas
Quinlan, Texas is a small rural city in North Texas known for its proximity to Lake Tawakoni and its role as a local hub for the surrounding agricultural community.
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D.
Leo, Texas
Leo, Texas is a small rural unincorporated community located in Cooke County in north-central Texas.
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E.
Talty, Texas
Talty, Texas is a small town in northeastern Texas that functions largely as a residential community within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- 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: Sealy, Texas Target entity description: Sealy, Texas is a small city in Austin County that serves as a western gateway to the Greater Houston metropolitan region.
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A.
Selden, Texas
Selden, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Erath County in north-central Texas.
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B.
Van Alstyne, Texas
Van Alstyne, Texas is a small North Texas city known for its historic downtown, rural charm, and growing role as a bedroom community between Sherman and the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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C.
Quinlan, Texas
Quinlan, Texas is a small rural city in North Texas known for its proximity to Lake Tawakoni and its role as a local hub for the surrounding agricultural community.
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D.
Leo, Texas
Leo, Texas is a small rural unincorporated community located in Cooke County in north-central Texas.
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E.
Talty, Texas
Talty, Texas is a small town in northeastern Texas that functions largely as a residential community within the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 979 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| county | Austin County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directionFromHouston | west ⓘ |
| distanceToHoustonDowntownInMiles | about 50 ⓘ |
| elevationInFeet | 207 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 63 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48-66472 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1367782 ⓘ |
| governmentType | general law city ⓘ |
| hasLocalNewspaper | The Sealy News NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorIndustryHistory |
agriculture
ⓘ
manufacturing ⓘ railroad ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Sealy Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportationRoute |
Interstate 10
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Highway 36 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| incorporatedAsCity | 1949 ⓘ |
| isCountySubdivisionOf | Austin County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isGatewayTo | Greater Houston metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOfCombinedStatisticalArea | Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| latitude | 29.780 ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Austin County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Greater Houston metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| longitude | -96.158 ⓘ |
| namedAfter | George Sealy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDaylightSavingTime | yes ⓘ |
| partOf |
Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| populationCensus2010 | 6200 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | approximately 6400 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 77474 ⓘ |
| region | Southeast Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | CST ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | CDT ⓘ |
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: Sealy, Texas Description of subject: Sealy, Texas is a small city in Austin County that serves as a western gateway to the Greater Houston metropolitan region.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sealy, Texas, United States