Matagorda County, Texas
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Matagorda County, Texas is a coastal county in southeastern Texas known for its Gulf of Mexico shoreline, wetlands, and role in agriculture, energy production, and outdoor recreation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matagorda County, Texas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5521899 — 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: Matagorda County, Texas Context triple: [Colorado River (Texas), flowsThrough, Matagorda County, Texas]
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A.
Nacogdoches County, Texas
Nacogdoches County, Texas is a county in eastern Texas known for its historic city of Nacogdoches, often cited as the oldest town in the state.
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B.
Liberty County, Texas
Liberty County, Texas is a largely rural county in Southeast Texas, east of Houston, known for its pine forests, wetlands, and historic communities along the Trinity River.
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C.
Grayson County, Texas
Grayson County, Texas is a county in north Texas along the Oklahoma border, known for its county seat Sherman, the city of Denison, and its location near Lake Texoma.
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D.
Martin County, Texas
Martin County, Texas is a sparsely populated, oil-producing county in West Texas, with Stanton as its county seat.
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E.
Burnet County, Texas
Burnet County, Texas is a central Texas county on the edge of the Hill Country known for its lakes, outdoor recreation, and proximity to the Austin 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: Matagorda County, Texas Target entity description: Matagorda County, Texas is a coastal county in southeastern Texas known for its Gulf of Mexico shoreline, wetlands, and role in agriculture, energy production, and outdoor recreation.
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A.
Nacogdoches County, Texas
Nacogdoches County, Texas is a county in eastern Texas known for its historic city of Nacogdoches, often cited as the oldest town in the state.
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B.
Liberty County, Texas
Liberty County, Texas is a largely rural county in Southeast Texas, east of Houston, known for its pine forests, wetlands, and historic communities along the Trinity River.
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C.
Grayson County, Texas
Grayson County, Texas is a county in north Texas along the Oklahoma border, known for its county seat Sherman, the city of Denison, and its location near Lake Texoma.
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D.
Martin County, Texas
Martin County, Texas is a sparsely populated, oil-producing county in West Texas, with Stanton as its county seat.
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E.
Burnet County, Texas
Burnet County, Texas is a central Texas county on the edge of the Hill Country known for its lakes, outdoor recreation, and proximity to the Austin metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
county
ⓘ
county in Texas ⓘ |
| borders | Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| FIPSCode | 48-321 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1383804 ⓘ |
| hasCity |
Bay City, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matagorda, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Palacios, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Sargent, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountySeat | Bay City, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEcosystem |
barrier islands
ⓘ
coastal marshes ⓘ estuaries ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
commercial fishing
ⓘ
energy production ⓘ petrochemical industry ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasLandUse |
agriculture
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ |
| hasPort |
Port of Bay City
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Port of Palacios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasProtectedArea |
Matagorda Bay Nature Park
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Matagorda Island Wildlife Management Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransportation |
State Highway 35
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
State Highway 60 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWaterBody |
Colorado River (Texas)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gulf of Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Matagorda Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ Tres Palacios Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCoastalCounty | true ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Texas Gulf Coast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Gulf of Mexico shoreline
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
outdoor recreation ⓘ wetlands ⓘ |
| largestCity | Bay City, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Texas
ⓘ
southeastern Texas ⓘ |
| namedFor | Matagorda Bay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| observesDST | Central Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| offersActivity |
beach recreation
ⓘ
birdwatching ⓘ boating ⓘ fishing ⓘ hunting ⓘ |
| partOf | Gulf Coast region of Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
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: Matagorda County, Texas Description of subject: Matagorda County, Texas is a coastal county in southeastern Texas known for its Gulf of Mexico shoreline, wetlands, and role in agriculture, energy production, and outdoor recreation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.