Cushing oil hub
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The Cushing oil hub is a major U.S. crude oil storage and pipeline crossroads in Oklahoma that serves as the primary delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cushing oil hub canonical | 1 |
| Cushing pipeline hub | 1 |
| Cushing storage hub | 1 |
| Cushing-Tulsa pipeline development | 1 |
| U.S. midcontinent oil market | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521820 — 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: Cushing oil hub Context triple: [WTI crude oil futures, storageHub, Cushing oil hub]
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A.
Belridge Oil Field
Belridge Oil Field is one of California’s largest and most productive oil fields, located in the San Joaquin Valley and known for its extensive heavy oil and enhanced recovery operations.
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B.
Oil Center
Oil Center is a small unincorporated community in Lea County, New Mexico, historically associated with the region’s petroleum industry.
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C.
Bakken
Bakken is a surname most notably associated with Earl Bakken, the American engineer and co-founder of the medical device company Medtronic.
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D.
Elk Hills oil field
The Elk Hills oil field is a major petroleum reserve in California that gained historical notoriety for its central role in the Teapot Dome scandal, one of the most infamous corruption cases in U.S. political history.
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E.
Parentis oil field
Parentis oil field is a major onshore oil field in southwestern France, known as one of the most significant hydrocarbon deposits in the Aquitaine region.
- 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: Cushing oil hub Target entity description: The Cushing oil hub is a major U.S. crude oil storage and pipeline crossroads in Oklahoma that serves as the primary delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil.
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A.
Belridge Oil Field
Belridge Oil Field is one of California’s largest and most productive oil fields, located in the San Joaquin Valley and known for its extensive heavy oil and enhanced recovery operations.
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B.
Oil Center
Oil Center is a small unincorporated community in Lea County, New Mexico, historically associated with the region’s petroleum industry.
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C.
Bakken
Bakken is a surname most notably associated with Earl Bakken, the American engineer and co-founder of the medical device company Medtronic.
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D.
Elk Hills oil field
The Elk Hills oil field is a major petroleum reserve in California that gained historical notoriety for its central role in the Teapot Dome scandal, one of the most infamous corruption cases in U.S. political history.
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E.
Parentis oil field
Parentis oil field is a major onshore oil field in southwestern France, known as one of the most significant hydrocarbon deposits in the Aquitaine region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
oil storage hub
ⓘ
pipeline transportation hub ⓘ |
| associatedWithCommodity |
West Texas Intermediate crude oil
ⓘ
light sweet crude oil ⓘ |
| connectedBy | crude oil pipelines ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Canadian crude oil pipeline systems
ⓘ
Gulf Coast refining centers ⓘ Midwest refineries ⓘ Permian Basin production region ⓘ
linked to:
Permian Basin
|
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| dataReportedBy |
U.S. Energy Information Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
Office of Energy Information and Analysis
|
| dataType | weekly crude oil inventory levels ⓘ |
| economicImportance |
influences global oil prices
ⓘ
key node in North American crude oil logistics ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
interconnected storage facilities
ⓘ
multiple inbound crude oil pipelines ⓘ multiple outbound crude oil pipelines ⓘ |
| hasInfrastructure |
large above-ground crude oil storage tanks
ⓘ
metering stations ⓘ pipeline manifolds ⓘ pump stations ⓘ |
| hasRole |
benchmark pricing hub for U.S. crude oil
ⓘ
logistical hub between inland production and coastal refining markets ⓘ reference point for global crude oil pricing ⓘ |
| impact |
inventory changes can affect WTI futures prices
ⓘ
storage levels are monitored by oil market participants ⓘ |
| knownAs |
Cushing pipeline hub
ⓘ
linked to:
Cushing oil hub
Cushing storage hub ⓘ
linked to:
Cushing oil hub
Cushing, Oklahoma oil hub ⓘ
linked to:
Cushing, Oklahoma
|
| locatedIn |
Cushing, Oklahoma
ⓘ
Midcontinent oil region ⓘ
linked to:
Mid-Continent oil field
Oklahoma ⓘ Payne County, Oklahoma ⓘ United States Midwest oil market ⓘ |
| partOf |
North American crude oil infrastructure
ⓘ
U.S. crude oil pipeline network ⓘ |
| primaryFunction |
crude oil storage
ⓘ
crude oil transportation ⓘ physical delivery point for crude oil contracts ⓘ pipeline interconnection ⓘ |
| regulator |
U.S. Energy Information Administration
ⓘ
linked to:
Office of Energy Information and Analysis
|
| servesAs |
pricing point for West Texas Intermediate crude oil
ⓘ
primary delivery point for West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures ⓘ settlement point for NYMEX WTI futures contracts ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| usedFor |
balancing regional crude oil supply and demand
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physical settlement of WTI futures contracts ⓘ short-term crude oil storage ⓘ |
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: Cushing oil hub Description of subject: The Cushing oil hub is a major U.S. crude oil storage and pipeline crossroads in Oklahoma that serves as the primary delivery and pricing point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Cushing oil hub
linked to: Cushing oil hub
linked to: Cushing oil hub
linked to: Cushing oil hub