Cotulla
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Cotulla is a small city in La Salle County, Texas, known historically as a ranching and oilfield service center in the South Texas region.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cotulla canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10134450 — 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: Cotulla Context triple: [South Texas Plains, containsCity, Cotulla]
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A.
Corsicana
Corsicana is a small city in north-central Texas known for its oil boom history and as a regional commercial and transportation hub between Dallas and Houston.
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B.
Navasota, Texas
Navasota, Texas is a small city in Grimes County that serves as a historic railroad and commercial hub within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
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C.
Malakoff, Texas
Malakoff, Texas is a small city in East Texas known historically for its brick manufacturing and proximity to Cedar Creek Reservoir.
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D.
Hannibal, Texas
Hannibal, Texas is a small rural unincorporated community located in Erath County in north-central Texas.
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E.
Nacogdoches, Texas
Nacogdoches, Texas is a historic East Texas city often regarded as the oldest town in the state and known for its early role in Texas history.
- 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: Cotulla Target entity description: Cotulla is a small city in La Salle County, Texas, known historically as a ranching and oilfield service center in the South Texas region.
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A.
Corsicana
Corsicana is a small city in north-central Texas known for its oil boom history and as a regional commercial and transportation hub between Dallas and Houston.
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B.
Navasota, Texas
Navasota, Texas is a small city in Grimes County that serves as a historic railroad and commercial hub within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
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C.
Malakoff, Texas
Malakoff, Texas is a small city in East Texas known historically for its brick manufacturing and proximity to Cedar Creek Reservoir.
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D.
Hannibal, Texas
Hannibal, Texas is a small rural unincorporated community located in Erath County in north-central Texas.
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E.
Nacogdoches, Texas
Nacogdoches, Texas is a historic East Texas city often regarded as the oldest town in the state and known for its early role in Texas history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| areaCode | 830 ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySubdivision | U.S. state of Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| county | La Salle County NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceToSanAntonio | approximately 90 miles southwest GENERATED ⓘ |
| economicBase |
oil and gas industry
ⓘ
oilfield services ⓘ ranching ⓘ transportation services ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Joseph Cotulla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| hasNearbyRiver | Nueces River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPublicSchoolDistrict | Cotulla Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
ranching center in South Texas
ⓘ
service center for oilfield operations in South Texas ⓘ |
| knownFor |
oilfield service industry
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ service center for surrounding ranches ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
La Salle County, Texas
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Interstate 35
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 81 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Joseph Cotulla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Eagle Ford Shale region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCodePrefix | 78014 ⓘ |
| region | South Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | county seat of La Salle County ⓘ |
| servesAs | commercial center for La Salle County ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
| transportationRole | stop along Interstate 35 corridor between San Antonio and Laredo ⓘ |
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: Cotulla Description of subject: Cotulla is a small city in La Salle County, Texas, known historically as a ranching and oilfield service center in the South Texas region.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.