Del Rio, Texas
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Del Rio, Texas is a border city in southwest Texas along the Rio Grande, known as a regional hub for trade, law enforcement, and federal government activity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Del Rio, Texas canonical | 30 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2538969 — 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: Del Rio, Texas Context triple: [United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, hasCourthouse, Del Rio, Texas]
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A.
Santa Fe, Texas
Santa Fe, Texas is a small city in Galveston County known for its rural character and location within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
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B.
DeSoto, Texas
DeSoto, Texas is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its residential communities and proximity to Dallas.
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C.
Velasco, Texas
Velasco, Texas was a historic Gulf Coast port town that played a key role in early Texas history, including as the site where treaties ending the Texas Revolution were signed.
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D.
Van Horn, Texas
Van Horn, Texas is a small town in far West Texas that serves as a regional crossroads and gateway community along major highways and near the Chihuahuan Desert.
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E.
Eldorado, Texas
Eldorado, Texas is a small town in Schleicher County best known for hosting the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a former compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
- 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: Del Rio, Texas Target entity description: Del Rio, Texas is a border city in southwest Texas along the Rio Grande, known as a regional hub for trade, law enforcement, and federal government activity.
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A.
Santa Fe, Texas
Santa Fe, Texas is a small city in Galveston County known for its rural character and location within the Greater Houston metropolitan area.
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B.
DeSoto, Texas
DeSoto, Texas is a suburban city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its residential communities and proximity to Dallas.
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C.
Velasco, Texas
Velasco, Texas was a historic Gulf Coast port town that played a key role in early Texas history, including as the site where treaties ending the Texas Revolution were signed.
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D.
Van Horn, Texas
Van Horn, Texas is a small town in far West Texas that serves as a regional crossroads and gateway community along major highways and near the Chihuahuan Desert.
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E.
Eldorado, Texas
Eldorado, Texas is a small town in Schleicher County best known for hosting the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a former compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode | 830 ⓘ |
| borderCityOf |
United States–Mexico border
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S.–Mexico border
|
| borderWith | Mexico ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| county | Val Verde County ⓘ |
| distanceTo |
San Antonio, Texas is roughly 150 miles east
ⓘ
linked to:
San Antonio, Texas
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| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 1,000 feet ⓘ |
| federalFacility |
U.S. Border Patrol sector facilities
ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Border Patrol
U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. ports of entry
|
| governingBody | city council ⓘ |
| governmentType | council–manager ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Del Rio International Airport ⓘ |
| hasBorderCrossing | Del Rio–Ciudad Acuña International Bridge ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution |
Southwest Texas Junior College (Del Rio campus)
ⓘ
linked to:
Southwest Texas Junior College
Sul Ross State University Rio Grande College (Del Rio campus) ⓘ
linked to:
Sul Ross State University
|
| hasHighSchool | Del Rio High School ⓘ |
| hasMilitaryInstallation | Laughlin Air Force Base ⓘ |
| hasPostalCode |
78840
ⓘ
78841 ⓘ |
| isCountySeatOf | Val Verde County, Texas ⓘ |
| languageUsage | predominantly English and Spanish ⓘ |
| lawEnforcementPresence |
U.S. Border Patrol
ⓘ
U.S. Customs and Border Protection ⓘ local police department ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Southwest Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
South Texas
|
| locatedInMetropolitanArea | Del Rio micropolitan area ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion |
Rio Grande region
ⓘ
linked to:
Rio Grande basin
Trans-Pecos border area ⓘ
linked to:
Trans-Pecos region
|
| locatedOnRiver | Rio Grande ⓘ |
| near | Laughlin Air Force Base ⓘ |
| nearestMajorCity | San Antonio, Texas ⓘ |
| oppositeCityAcrossBorder |
Ciudad Acuña, Coahuila, Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
Ciudad Acuña
|
| primaryEconomicActivities |
cross-border trade
ⓘ
government and military employment ⓘ retail and services ⓘ |
| regionType | borderlands ⓘ |
| riverFormsBorderWith |
Coahuila, Mexico
ⓘ
linked to:
Coahuila
|
| role |
regional hub for federal government activity
ⓘ
regional hub for law enforcement ⓘ regional hub for trade ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| transportation |
served by State Highway 79 (local connections)
ⓘ
served by U.S. Route 277 ⓘ served by U.S. Route 90 ⓘ |
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: Del Rio, Texas Description of subject: Del Rio, Texas is a border city in southwest Texas along the Rio Grande, known as a regional hub for trade, law enforcement, and federal government activity.
Referenced by (30)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.