New London, Texas
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New London, Texas is a small East Texas town best known as the site of the 1937 New London School explosion, one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| New London, Texas canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9575671 — 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: New London, Texas Context triple: [Rusk County, Texas, contains, New London, Texas]
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A.
Newark, Texas
Newark, Texas is a small city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its rural character and proximity to Eagle Mountain Lake.
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B.
Millican, Texas
Millican, Texas is a small rural community in east-central Texas known for its historic role as an early railroad town.
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C.
Colfax, Texas
Colfax, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Van Zandt County in East Texas.
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D.
Roanoke, Texas
Roanoke, Texas is a small city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its historic downtown and designation as the “Unique Dining Capital of Texas.”
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E.
Cottonwood, Texas
Cottonwood, Texas is a small rural community located within Kaufman County in the state of Texas.
- 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: New London, Texas Target entity description: New London, Texas is a small East Texas town best known as the site of the 1937 New London School explosion, one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history.
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A.
Newark, Texas
Newark, Texas is a small city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its rural character and proximity to Eagle Mountain Lake.
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B.
Millican, Texas
Millican, Texas is a small rural community in east-central Texas known for its historic role as an early railroad town.
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C.
Colfax, Texas
Colfax, Texas is a small unincorporated rural community located in Van Zandt County in East Texas.
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D.
Roanoke, Texas
Roanoke, Texas is a small city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area known for its historic downtown and designation as the “Unique Dining Capital of Texas.”
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E.
Cottonwood, Texas
Cottonwood, Texas is a small rural community located within Kaufman County in the state of Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
gas explosion
ⓘ
incorporated community ⓘ industrial disaster ⓘ school disaster ⓘ town ⓘ |
| cause | natural gas explosion ⓘ |
| continent | North America ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| date | March 18, 1937 ⓘ |
| hasEvent | New London School explosion ⓘ |
| hasName | New London ⓘ |
| hasOfficialName | New London, Texas ⓘ |
| hasPrimarySchoolDisaster | New London School explosion ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | site of one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history ⓘ |
| knownFor | New London School explosion ⓘ |
| ledTo | widespread adoption of odorized natural gas in the United States ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Rusk County, Texas
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | East Texas ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| location | New London, Texas ⓘ |
| numberOfDeaths | more than 290 ⓘ |
| numberOfInjured | hundreds ⓘ |
| partOf |
East Texas
ⓘ
Rusk County, Texas ⓘ |
| significance | one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
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: New London, Texas Description of subject: New London, Texas is a small East Texas town best known as the site of the 1937 New London School explosion, one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. history.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.