Presidio County, Texas
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Presidio County, Texas is a sparsely populated county in far West Texas along the U.S.–Mexico border, known for its desert landscapes, the town of Marfa, and its historic ranching and mining heritage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Presidio County | 3 |
| Presidio County, Texas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6406016 — 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: Presidio County, Texas Context triple: [Shafter, Texas, county, Presidio County, Texas]
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A.
Nueces County, Texas
Nueces County, Texas is a coastal county in South Texas that includes the city of Corpus Christi and serves as a regional hub for industry, healthcare, and maritime commerce along the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Navarro County, Texas
Navarro County, Texas is a county in north-central Texas known for its seat in Corsicana and its location along major transportation routes between Dallas and Houston.
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C.
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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D.
Cameron County, Texas
Cameron County, Texas is a county at the southern tip of Texas that includes part of the Gulf Coast and the U.S.–Mexico border, encompassing communities such as Brownsville and the area hosting SpaceX’s Starbase facility.
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E.
Parker County, Texas
Parker County, Texas is a suburban and semi-rural county just west of Fort Worth that forms part of the greater 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: Presidio County, Texas Target entity description: Presidio County, Texas is a sparsely populated county in far West Texas along the U.S.–Mexico border, known for its desert landscapes, the town of Marfa, and its historic ranching and mining heritage.
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A.
Nueces County, Texas
Nueces County, Texas is a coastal county in South Texas that includes the city of Corpus Christi and serves as a regional hub for industry, healthcare, and maritime commerce along the Gulf of Mexico.
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B.
Navarro County, Texas
Navarro County, Texas is a county in north-central Texas known for its seat in Corsicana and its location along major transportation routes between Dallas and Houston.
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C.
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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D.
Cameron County, Texas
Cameron County, Texas is a county at the southern tip of Texas that includes part of the Gulf Coast and the U.S.–Mexico border, encompassing communities such as Brownsville and the area hosting SpaceX’s Starbase facility.
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E.
Parker County, Texas
Parker County, Texas is a suburban and semi-rural county just west of Fort Worth that forms part of the greater Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | county of Texas ⓘ |
| areaLand | approximately 3,855 square miles ⓘ |
| areaTotal | approximately 3,856 square miles ⓘ |
| areaWater | approximately 1 square mile ⓘ |
| borders |
Brewster County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Chihuahua, Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeff Davis County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| borderWith |
Chihuahua, Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | arid ⓘ |
| congressionalDistrict | Texas's 23rd congressional district NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contains |
Candelaria, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marfa, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Presidio, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Redford, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Ruidosa, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ Shafter, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countyNumberInTexas | 377 ⓘ |
| countySeat | Marfa, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| crossedBy | Rio Grande NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economy |
border trade
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| elevationMax | mountainous desert terrain ⓘ |
| established | January 3, 1850 ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48377 ⓘ |
| GNISID | 1375853 ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossing | Presidio–Ojinaga International Bridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| includedIn | United States–Mexico border region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Marfa Lights vicinity
ⓘ
desert landscapes ⓘ mining heritage ⓘ ranching heritage ⓘ the town of Marfa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| largestCity | Presidio, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Texas
ⓘ
Trans-Pecos region NERFINISHED ⓘ West Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Presidio del Norte NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| organized | 1875 ⓘ |
| partOf | Big Bend region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| population | approximately 6,000 (2020 census) ⓘ |
| populationDensity | sparsely populated ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight 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: Presidio County, Texas Description of subject: Presidio County, Texas is a sparsely populated county in far West Texas along the U.S.–Mexico border, known for its desert landscapes, the town of Marfa, and its historic ranching and mining heritage.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shafter, Texas
subject surface form:
Shafter, Texas
subject surface form:
Shafter, Texas
this entity surface form:
Presidio County
this entity surface form:
Presidio County