Marathon, Texas
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Marathon, Texas is a small unincorporated town in Brewster County known as a gateway to Big Bend National Park and the scenic Big Bend region of West Texas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marathon, Texas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11647848 — 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: Marathon, Texas Context triple: [Alpine, Texas, hasNearbyTown, Marathon, Texas]
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A.
Mart, Texas
Mart, Texas is a small rural city in Central Texas known for its tight-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
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B.
Marshall, Texas
Marshall, Texas is a small city in East Texas known as a regional cultural and educational center and for its prominence in federal patent litigation.
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C.
Mission, Texas
Mission, Texas is a city in the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, known for its agricultural industry and proximity to the U.S.–Mexico border.
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D.
Millican, Texas
Millican, Texas is a small rural community in east-central Texas known for its historic role as an early railroad town.
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E.
Murchison, Texas
Murchison, Texas is a small rural city located in eastern Texas within Henderson County.
- 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: Marathon, Texas Target entity description: Marathon, Texas is a small unincorporated town in Brewster County known as a gateway to Big Bend National Park and the scenic Big Bend region of West Texas.
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A.
Mart, Texas
Mart, Texas is a small rural city in Central Texas known for its tight-knit community and agricultural surroundings.
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B.
Marshall, Texas
Marshall, Texas is a small city in East Texas known as a regional cultural and educational center and for its prominence in federal patent litigation.
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C.
Mission, Texas
Mission, Texas is a city in the Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, known for its agricultural industry and proximity to the U.S.–Mexico border.
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D.
Millican, Texas
Millican, Texas is a small rural community in east-central Texas known for its historic role as an early railroad town.
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E.
Murchison, Texas
Murchison, Texas is a small rural city located in eastern Texas within Henderson County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
census-designated place
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unincorporated community ⓘ |
| areaCode | 432 ⓘ |
| category |
Populated places in Brewster County, Texas
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Unincorporated communities in Texas ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| coordinates | 29.6915°N 103.2421°W ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| county | Brewster County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
approximately 40 miles northeast of Alpine, Texas
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approximately 80 miles north of Big Bend National Park Panther Junction ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel |
1231 meters
ⓘ
4040 feet ⓘ |
| FIPScode | 48-46588 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1340864 ⓘ |
| hasEconomicActivity |
hospitality industry
ⓘ
ranching ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
railroad line nearby
ⓘ
small downtown business district ⓘ |
| hasLandmark |
Eve’s Garden Bed and Breakfast
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gage Hotel NERFINISHED ⓘ Marathon Motel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isGatewayTo |
Big Bend National Park
NERFINISHED
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Big Bend Ranch State Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Big Bend tourism region
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Brewster County, Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
dark night skies
ⓘ
gateway to Big Bend National Park ⓘ scenic desert and mountain landscapes ⓘ |
| KöppenClimateClassification | BSk ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Big Bend region
NERFINISHED
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Trans-Pecos Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ West Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedOnHighway |
U.S. Route 385
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
U.S. Route 90 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestAirport | Alpine–Casparis Municipal Airport NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearestCommercialAirport | Midland International Air and Space Port NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearMountainRange |
Del Norte Mountains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glass Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| populationCensus2010 | 430 ⓘ |
| populationCensus2020 | approximately 380 ⓘ |
| postalCode | 79842 ⓘ |
| railroadServedBy | Union Pacific Railroad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Chihuahuan Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedBySchoolDistrict | Alpine Independent School District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Time Zone
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surface form:
Central Daylight Time
|
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: Marathon, Texas Description of subject: Marathon, Texas is a small unincorporated town in Brewster County known as a gateway to Big Bend National Park and the scenic Big Bend region of West Texas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Alpine, Texas