Lupe Valdez; 42.5%
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Lupe Valdez is an American Democratic politician and former Dallas County sheriff who became the first openly gay Latina major-party nominee for Texas governor in 2018.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lupe Valdez; 42.5% canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9796525 — 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: Lupe Valdez; 42.5% Context triple: [2018 Texas gubernatorial election, votePercentage, Lupe Valdez; 42.5%]
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A.
Lumi Cavazos
Lumi Cavazos is a Mexican actress best known internationally for her acclaimed role in the film "Like Water for Chocolate."
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B.
Julia Carin Cavazos
Julia Carin Cavazos, known professionally as Julia Michaels, is an American singer-songwriter recognized for her solo pop hits and for writing chart-topping songs for numerous major artists.
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C.
Drue Gensler
Drue Gensler is an American architect and business leader best known as a co-founder of the global architecture and design firm Gensler.
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D.
Margarita Zavala
Margarita Zavala is a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as First Lady of Mexico and later became a prominent member of the National Action Party (PAN) and an independent presidential candidate.
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E.
Texas's 25th congressional district
Texas's 25th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Texas that encompasses a long, irregularly shaped area stretching from parts of Austin northward through central 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: Lupe Valdez; 42.5% Target entity description: Lupe Valdez is an American Democratic politician and former Dallas County sheriff who became the first openly gay Latina major-party nominee for Texas governor in 2018.
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A.
Lumi Cavazos
Lumi Cavazos is a Mexican actress best known internationally for her acclaimed role in the film "Like Water for Chocolate."
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B.
Julia Carin Cavazos
Julia Carin Cavazos, known professionally as Julia Michaels, is an American singer-songwriter recognized for her solo pop hits and for writing chart-topping songs for numerous major artists.
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C.
Drue Gensler
Drue Gensler is an American architect and business leader best known as a co-founder of the global architecture and design firm Gensler.
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D.
Margarita Zavala
Margarita Zavala is a Mexican lawyer and politician who served as First Lady of Mexico and later became a prominent member of the National Action Party (PAN) and an independent presidential candidate.
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E.
Texas's 25th congressional district
Texas's 25th congressional district is a U.S. House of Representatives district in Texas that encompasses a long, irregularly shaped area stretching from parts of Austin northward through central Texas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Democratic Party politician
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human ⓘ politician ⓘ sheriff ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| election | 2018 Texas gubernatorial election ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Latina ⓘ |
| hasGivenOccupation | public servant ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Democratic Party ⓘ |
| movement |
LGBT rights movement in the United States
ⓘ
linked to:
LGBT rights movement
|
| notableAs | first Latina sheriff of Dallas County, Texas ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first openly gay Latina major-party nominee for Texas governor ⓘ |
| occupation |
law enforcement officer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Governor of Texas ⓘ |
| placeOfPoliticalActivity | Texas ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Dallas County, Texas ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas
ⓘ
Sheriff of Dallas County, Texas ⓘ |
| residence | Dallas, Texas ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| stateOfPoliticalActivity | 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: Lupe Valdez; 42.5% Description of subject: Lupe Valdez is an American Democratic politician and former Dallas County sheriff who became the first openly gay Latina major-party nominee for Texas governor in 2018.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.