Matamoros
E159725
Matamoros is a Mexican border city in the state of Tamaulipas, located directly across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, and known as an important hub for trade and manufacturing.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matamoros, Tamaulipas | 30 |
| Matamoros canonical | 23 |
| Matamoros Municipality | 2 |
| Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico | 2 |
| Brownsville–Matamoros | 1 |
| Matamoros, Mexico | 1 |
| Matamoros–Brownsville | 1 |
| city of Matamoros | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1337593 — 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: Matamoros Context triple: [Rio Grande, majorCityOnRiver, Matamoros]
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A.
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is a major Mexican border city in the state of Tamaulipas, located across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, and serving as an important hub for international trade and transportation.
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B.
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez is a major industrial and border city in northern Mexico, located across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
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C.
Ciudad Obregón
Ciudad Obregón is a major agricultural and industrial city in the state of Sonora, Mexico, known for its role in the development of modern irrigation and wheat production in the Yaqui Valley.
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D.
Gómez Palacio
Gómez Palacio is a major industrial and agricultural city in northeastern Durango, Mexico, forming part of the Comarca Lagunera metropolitan area.
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E.
Chihuahua City
Chihuahua City is a major urban and industrial center in northern Mexico known for its colonial architecture, mining history, and role in the Mexican Revolution.
- 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: Matamoros Target entity description: Matamoros is a Mexican border city in the state of Tamaulipas, located directly across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, and known as an important hub for trade and manufacturing.
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A.
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is a major Mexican border city in the state of Tamaulipas, located across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas, and serving as an important hub for international trade and transportation.
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B.
Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez is a major industrial and border city in northern Mexico, located across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
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C.
Ciudad Obregón
Ciudad Obregón is a major agricultural and industrial city in the state of Sonora, Mexico, known for its role in the development of modern irrigation and wheat production in the Yaqui Valley.
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D.
Gómez Palacio
Gómez Palacio is a major industrial and agricultural city in northeastern Durango, Mexico, forming part of the Comarca Lagunera metropolitan area.
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E.
Chihuahua City
Chihuahua City is a major urban and industrial center in northern Mexico known for its colonial architecture, mining history, and role in the Mexican Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
municipality ⓘ |
| borderStatePartner | Texas ⓘ |
| bordersWith |
Brownsville, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Brownsville
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| borderType | Mexico–United States border city ⓘ |
| country | Mexico ⓘ |
| currency | Mexican peso ⓘ |
| demographicFeature | binational metropolitan area with Brownsville ⓘ |
| economicSector |
agriculture in surrounding areas
ⓘ
logistics and transportation ⓘ manufacturing sector ⓘ |
| governedBy | Municipal president of Matamoros ⓘ |
| hasAirport | General Servando Canales International Airport ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossingTo |
Brownsville, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Brownsville
|
| hasBorderCrossingType | international bridge ⓘ |
| hasBridge |
B&M International Bridge
ⓘ
Gateway International Bridge ⓘ Veterans International Bridge at Los Tomates ⓘ |
| hasClimate | semi-arid to subtropical climate ⓘ |
| hasFunction | port of entry between Mexico and the United States ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
automotive components manufacturing
ⓘ
electronics manufacturing ⓘ textile manufacturing ⓘ |
| hasPort | Port of Matamoros ⓘ |
| hasRiverBoundaryWith | Texas ⓘ |
| hasSisterCity |
Brownsville, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Brownsville
|
| isSeatOf |
Matamoros Municipality
ⓘ
linked to:
Matamoros
|
| knownFor |
cross-border commerce
ⓘ
international trade ⓘ manufacturing ⓘ maquiladora industry ⓘ |
| languageMajority | Spanish speakers ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Gulf Coastal Plain of Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
Gulf Coastal Plain
Northeastern Mexico ⓘ Northern Mexico ⓘ Tamaulipas ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Gulf of Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedOnRiver | Rio Grande ⓘ |
| officialLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tamaulipas–Texas border region
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S.–Mexico borderlands region
|
| region |
Tamaulipas border region
ⓘ
linked to:
Tamaulipas
|
| roadConnection |
Mexican Federal Highway 101
ⓘ
Mexican Federal Highway 2 ⓘ |
| subdivisionOf |
State of Tamaulipas
ⓘ
linked to:
Tamaulipas
|
| timeZone |
Central Standard Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| transportRole | key node in US–Mexico trade corridors ⓘ |
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: Matamoros Description of subject: Matamoros is a Mexican border city in the state of Tamaulipas, located directly across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, and known as an important hub for trade and manufacturing.
Referenced by (61)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Brownsville
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Brownsville
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Texas and Mexico
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Rio Grande valley
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