Howard County, Texas
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Howard County, Texas is a rural West Texas county centered around the city of Big Spring, known historically for ranching, oil production, and its location along major transportation routes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Howard County, Texas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2803515 — 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: Howard County, Texas Context triple: [Texas's 19th congressional district, contains, Howard County, Texas]
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A.
Harrison County, Texas
Harrison County, Texas is an East Texas county centered around the city of Marshall, known historically for its role in the Civil War and as a regional cultural and economic hub.
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B.
Henderson County, Texas
Henderson County, Texas is a largely rural county in East Texas known for its small towns, lakes, and inclusion in the broader Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan region.
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C.
Kent County, Texas
Kent County, Texas is a sparsely populated rural county in West Texas known for its ranching economy and wide-open plains.
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D.
Houston County, Texas
Houston County, Texas is a rural county in East Texas known for its pine forests, small towns, and location within the state's historic and geographic heartland.
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E.
Hood County, Texas
Hood County, Texas is a county in north-central Texas known for its seat Granbury and its inclusion in the greater Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan region.
- 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: Howard County, Texas Target entity description: Howard County, Texas is a rural West Texas county centered around the city of Big Spring, known historically for ranching, oil production, and its location along major transportation routes.
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A.
Harrison County, Texas
Harrison County, Texas is an East Texas county centered around the city of Marshall, known historically for its role in the Civil War and as a regional cultural and economic hub.
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B.
Henderson County, Texas
Henderson County, Texas is a largely rural county in East Texas known for its small towns, lakes, and inclusion in the broader Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan region.
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C.
Kent County, Texas
Kent County, Texas is a sparsely populated rural county in West Texas known for its ranching economy and wide-open plains.
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D.
Houston County, Texas
Houston County, Texas is a rural county in East Texas known for its pine forests, small towns, and location within the state's historic and geographic heartland.
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E.
Hood County, Texas
Hood County, Texas is a county in north-central Texas known for its seat Granbury and its inclusion in the greater Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county
ⓘ
county in Texas ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Borden County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glasscock County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Martin County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Mitchell County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Scurry County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Sterling County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Big Spring McMahon–Wrinkle Airport
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Big Spring State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Big Spring, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Coahoma, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Forsan, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countySeat | Big Spring, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fipsCode | 48227 ⓘ |
| gnisFeatureID | 1374273 ⓘ |
| governmentType | county government ⓘ |
| hasEducationalService |
Big Spring Independent School District
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Coahoma Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ Forsan Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
cattle ranching
ⓘ
natural gas production ⓘ petroleum extraction ⓘ |
| hasJurisdiction | Howard County Sheriff’s Office NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMajorEconomicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
oil production ⓘ ranching ⓘ transportation services ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
oil-producing county in the Permian Basin
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ranching center in West Texas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
location along major transportation routes
ⓘ
oil fields ⓘ rural character ⓘ |
| largestCity | Big Spring, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
United States Census Bureau’s West Texas region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States congressional district 19 (Texas) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Volney E. Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Permian Basin oil region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | West Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| traversedBy |
Interstate 20
NERFINISHED
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Texas State Highway 176 NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas State Highway 350 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 87 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Howard County, Texas Description of subject: Howard County, Texas is a rural West Texas county centered around the city of Big Spring, known historically for ranching, oil production, and its location along major transportation routes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dawson County, Texas