Santa Maria, Texas, United States
E455822
Santa Maria, Texas, United States is a small community in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, known as the birthplace of rock concert promoter Chet Helms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Santa Maria, Texas, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4650150 — 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: Santa Maria, Texas, United States Context triple: [Chet Helms, birthPlace, Santa Maria, Texas, United States]
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A.
Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in South Texas known for its Gulf of Mexico shoreline, naval air station, and role as a regional economic and cultural hub.
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B.
Texas City, Texas
Texas City, Texas is an industrial Gulf Coast city in Galveston County known for its major port facilities, petrochemical complexes, and the site of the 1947 Texas City disaster.
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C.
Port Arthur, Texas, United States
Port Arthur, Texas, United States, is an industrial Gulf Coast city known for its major oil refineries and as the hometown of several notable figures in sports and music.
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D.
Marshall, Texas, United States
Marshall, Texas, United States, is a historic East Texas city known as a center of civil rights activity and the birthplace of civil rights leader James Farmer.
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E.
Boca Chica, Texas
Boca Chica, Texas is a small coastal community at the southern tip of Texas that has become widely known as the site of SpaceX’s Starbase launch and development facility.
- 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: Santa Maria, Texas, United States Target entity description: Santa Maria, Texas, United States is a small community in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, known as the birthplace of rock concert promoter Chet Helms.
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A.
Corpus Christi, Texas, United States
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in South Texas known for its Gulf of Mexico shoreline, naval air station, and role as a regional economic and cultural hub.
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B.
Texas City, Texas
Texas City, Texas is an industrial Gulf Coast city in Galveston County known for its major port facilities, petrochemical complexes, and the site of the 1947 Texas City disaster.
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C.
Port Arthur, Texas, United States
Port Arthur, Texas, United States, is an industrial Gulf Coast city known for its major oil refineries and as the hometown of several notable figures in sports and music.
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D.
Marshall, Texas, United States
Marshall, Texas, United States, is a historic East Texas city known as a center of civil rights activity and the birthplace of civil rights leader James Farmer.
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E.
Boca Chica, Texas
Boca Chica, Texas is a small coastal community at the southern tip of Texas that has become widely known as the site of SpaceX’s Starbase launch and development facility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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unincorporated community ⓘ |
| borderProximity | near United States–Mexico border ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| elevationInFeet | 49 ⓘ |
| elevationInMeters | 15 ⓘ |
| FIPScode | 48-65688 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1347072 ⓘ |
| governingBody | Cameron County government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAreaCode | 956 ⓘ |
| hasNotablePerson | Chet Helms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode | 78592 ⓘ |
| hasSchoolDistrict | Santa Maria Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSettlementType | rural community ⓘ |
| knownFor | birthplace of rock concert promoter Chet Helms ⓘ |
| latitude | 26.0804° N ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cameron County, Texas
NERFINISHED
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Rio Grande Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ South Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Rio Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| longitude | 97.8322° W ⓘ |
| partOf | Brownsville–Harlingen metropolitan area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | 846 ⓘ |
| populationCensusYear | 2010 ⓘ |
| servedBy |
Texas State Highway 107 (region)
NERFINISHED
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U.S. Route 281 (nearby) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Central Time Zone
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surface form:
Central Daylight Time
Central Time Zone ⓘ
surface form:
Central Standard Time
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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: Santa Maria, Texas, United States Description of subject: Santa Maria, Texas, United States is a small community in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, known as the birthplace of rock concert promoter Chet Helms.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.