Lamesa, Texas
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Lamesa, Texas is a small West Texas city that serves as an agricultural and regional service center on the Llano Estacado.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lamesa, Texas canonical | 6 |
| Lamesa, Texas, United States | 3 |
| Lamesa micropolitan area | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11024952 — 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: Lamesa, Texas Context triple: [Dawson County, Texas, countySeat, Lamesa, Texas]
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A.
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite, Texas is a suburban city in the eastern part of the Dallas–Fort Worth area known for its strong retail centers, rodeo heritage, and family-oriented residential communities.
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B.
New London, Texas
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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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.
El Campo, Texas
El Campo, Texas is a small city in Wharton County known for its agricultural roots and location within the greater Houston metropolitan region.
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E.
Lorena, Texas
Lorena, Texas is a small city in Central Texas that functions as a suburban community within the Waco metropolitan area.
- 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: Lamesa, Texas Target entity description: Lamesa, Texas is a small West Texas city that serves as an agricultural and regional service center on the Llano Estacado.
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A.
Mesquite, Texas
Mesquite, Texas is a suburban city in the eastern part of the Dallas–Fort Worth area known for its strong retail centers, rodeo heritage, and family-oriented residential communities.
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B.
New London, Texas
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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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.
El Campo, Texas
El Campo, Texas is a small city in Wharton County known for its agricultural roots and location within the greater Houston metropolitan region.
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E.
Lorena, Texas
Lorena, Texas is a small city in Central Texas that functions as a suburban community within the Waco metropolitan area.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
county seat ⓘ |
| areaCode | 806 ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid climate ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countySeatOf | Dawson County, Texas ⓘ |
| distanceToLubbock | about 60 miles south ⓘ |
| economy |
agriculture
ⓘ
cattle ranching ⓘ cotton production ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 2,979 feet
ⓘ
about 908 meters ⓘ |
| FIPSCode | 48-41140 ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1903 ⓘ |
| GNISFeatureID | 1361122 ⓘ |
| governmentType | city government ⓘ |
| hasAirport | Lamesa Municipal Airport ⓘ |
| hasEducationalInstitution | Lamesa Independent School District ⓘ |
| hosts | annual chicken fried steak festival ⓘ |
| incorporationDate | 1905 ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
United States Great Plains
ⓘ
linked to:
Great Plains
|
| landArea | predominantly land ⓘ |
| landUse |
dryland farming
ⓘ
irrigated cropland ⓘ |
| latitude | approximately 32.737° N ⓘ |
| localGovernmentJurisdiction | Dawson County, Texas ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Dawson County, Texas
ⓘ
High Plains of Texas ⓘ
linked to:
South Plains
|
| locatedOn | Llano Estacado ⓘ |
| longitude | approximately 101.951° W ⓘ |
| nearestLargeCity |
Lubbock, Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
Lubbock, Texas, United States
|
| nickname | Home of the Chicken Fried Steak Festival ⓘ |
| partOf |
South Plains region of Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
South Plains
|
| populationTrend | small city ⓘ |
| postalCode | 79331 ⓘ |
| primaryCrops |
cotton
ⓘ
sorghum ⓘ wheat ⓘ |
| region | West Texas ⓘ |
| roadAccess |
Texas State Highway 137
ⓘ
Texas State Highway 349 ⓘ U.S. Route 87 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
agricultural center
ⓘ
regional service center ⓘ |
| state | Texas ⓘ |
| timeZone | Central Time Zone ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST |
Central Daylight Time
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Time Zone
|
| waterArea | very small ⓘ |
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: Lamesa, Texas Description of subject: Lamesa, Texas is a small West Texas city that serves as an agricultural and regional service center on the Llano Estacado.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dawson County
subject linked to:
Dawson County
subject linked to:
Dawson County
linked to: Lamesa, Texas
linked to: Lamesa, Texas
linked to: Lamesa, Texas
linked to: Lamesa, Texas