Durant, Oklahoma
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Durant, Oklahoma is a small city in southeastern Oklahoma known as the "Magnolia Capital of Oklahoma" and serves as a regional hub near the Texas border and Lake Texoma.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Durant, Oklahoma canonical | 50 |
| City of Durant, Oklahoma | 3 |
| Durant, Oklahoma as a magnolia-themed city | 1 |
| city of Durant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1355486 — 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: Durant, Oklahoma Context triple: [Lake Texoma, locatedNear, Durant, Oklahoma]
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A.
Ruby, Oklahoma
Ruby, Oklahoma is the fictional all-Black town in Toni Morrison’s novel "Paradise," serving as the central setting where the story’s complex social, historical, and spiritual conflicts unfold.
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B.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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C.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, known for its energy industry, cowboy culture, and role as a major economic and cultural center in the region.
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D.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Tulsa is a major city in northeastern Oklahoma known for its historic oil industry, distinctive Art Deco architecture, and role as a cultural and economic hub of the region.
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E.
Lawton
Lawton is a mid-sized city in southwestern Oklahoma known as a regional economic and cultural center near Fort Sill and the Wichita Mountains.
- 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: Durant, Oklahoma Target entity description: Durant, Oklahoma is a small city in southeastern Oklahoma known as the "Magnolia Capital of Oklahoma" and serves as a regional hub near the Texas border and Lake Texoma.
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A.
Ruby, Oklahoma
Ruby, Oklahoma is the fictional all-Black town in Toni Morrison’s novel "Paradise," serving as the central setting where the story’s complex social, historical, and spiritual conflicts unfold.
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B.
Shattuck, Oklahoma
Shattuck, Oklahoma is a small town in northwestern Oklahoma known for its rural character and historic windmill park.
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C.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, known for its energy industry, cowboy culture, and role as a major economic and cultural center in the region.
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D.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Tulsa is a major city in northeastern Oklahoma known for its historic oil industry, distinctive Art Deco architecture, and role as a cultural and economic hub of the region.
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E.
Lawton
Lawton is a mid-sized city in southwestern Oklahoma known as a regional economic and cultural center near Fort Sill and the Wichita Mountains.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
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county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode | 580 ⓘ |
| climate | humid subtropical climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Bryan County ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
about 150 miles southeast of Oklahoma City
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about 95 miles north of Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| economySector |
agriculture
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education ⓘ gaming and hospitality ⓘ light manufacturing ⓘ retail trade ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 200 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| festival | Magnolia Festival of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| foundedAs | railroad town ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager government ⓘ |
| hasRiverNearby | Red River of the South ⓘ |
| higherEducationInstitution | Southeastern Oklahoma State University ⓘ |
| hostTo |
Choctaw Casino & Resort – Durant
ⓘ
Southeastern Oklahoma State University ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Bryan County, Oklahoma ⓘ |
| knownFor | annual Magnolia Festival ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma jurisdictional area
ⓘ
linked to:
Choctaw Nation
|
| locatedInRegion | southeastern Oklahoma ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Lake Texoma
ⓘ
Texas border ⓘ |
| majorHighway |
Oklahoma State Highway 78
ⓘ
U.S. Route 69 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 70 NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Route 75 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Pierre Durant family (railroad official family) ⓘ |
| nickname | Magnolia Capital of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| officialWebsite | https://www.durant.org/ ⓘ |
| partOf | Texoma region ⓘ |
| postalCode |
74701
ⓘ
74702 ⓘ |
| railService | Union Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | headquarters city of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ⓘ |
| regionalAttraction | proximity to Lake Texoma recreation ⓘ |
| regionalRole | commercial center for Bryan County and surrounding area ⓘ |
| role | regional hub ⓘ |
| servedBy | Durant Regional Airport – Eaker Field ⓘ |
| sports | home of Southeastern Oklahoma State Savage Storm athletics ⓘ |
| state | Oklahoma ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
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: Durant, Oklahoma Description of subject: Durant, Oklahoma is a small city in southeastern Oklahoma known as the "Magnolia Capital of Oklahoma" and serves as a regional hub near the Texas border and Lake Texoma.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Durant, Oklahoma
linked to: Durant, Oklahoma
School of Arts and Sciences (Southeastern Oklahoma State University)
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locatedIn
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Durant, Oklahoma
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subject linked to:
School of Arts and Sciences