Hobbs
E180515
Hobbs is a city in southeastern New Mexico known for its oil and gas industry and proximity to the Texas border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hobbs canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1587326 — 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: Hobbs Context triple: [New Mexico, hasCity, Hobbs]
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A.
Slab City
Slab City is an off-grid, largely lawless squatter community in the California desert known for its alternative lifestyle, artistic installations, and lack of formal infrastructure.
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B.
Jacktown
Jacktown is a colloquial nickname commonly used to refer to the city of Jackson, Mississippi.
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C.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
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D.
Firebaugh
Firebaugh is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its farming-based economy and rural community character.
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E.
Garrisonville
Garrisonville is an unincorporated community and suburban area in Stafford County, Virginia, located along the I-95 corridor south of Washington, D.C.
- 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: Hobbs Target entity description: Hobbs is a city in southeastern New Mexico known for its oil and gas industry and proximity to the Texas border.
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A.
Slab City
Slab City is an off-grid, largely lawless squatter community in the California desert known for its alternative lifestyle, artistic installations, and lack of formal infrastructure.
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B.
Jacktown
Jacktown is a colloquial nickname commonly used to refer to the city of Jackson, Mississippi.
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C.
Roscoe
"Roscoe" is an essay by Washington Irving, included in his collection *The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.*, that reflects on the life and character of English historian and writer William Roscoe.
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D.
Firebaugh
Firebaugh is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its farming-based economy and rural community character.
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E.
Garrisonville
Garrisonville is an unincorporated community and suburban area in Stafford County, Virginia, located along the I-95 corridor south of Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | city ⓘ |
| borderProximity | Texas ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countrySubdivision |
State of New Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
New Mexico
|
| hasEconomicSector |
energy
ⓘ
natural gas production ⓘ petroleum extraction ⓘ |
| hasFeature | proximity to Texas border ⓘ |
| hasIndustry |
energy production
ⓘ
natural gas ⓘ oil ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Lea County ⓘ |
| isInEconomicRegion | oil-producing region of New Mexico ⓘ |
| knownFor |
gas industry
ⓘ
oil and gas industry ⓘ oil industry ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Lea County
ⓘ
New Mexico ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| locatedInRegion | southeastern New Mexico ⓘ |
| nearBorderWith | Texas ⓘ |
| partOf |
Permian Basin region
ⓘ
linked to:
Permian Basin
|
| region |
American Southwest
ⓘ
linked to:
southwestern United States
|
| state | New Mexico ⓘ |
| timeZone | Mountain Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Mountain Daylight Time ⓘ |
| timeZoneStandard | Mountain Standard Time ⓘ |
| transportationRegion | southeastern New Mexico road network ⓘ |
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: Hobbs Description of subject: Hobbs is a city in southeastern New Mexico known for its oil and gas industry and proximity to the Texas border.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.