Ranked shortlist · 10 of 14 fairgrounds
Best fairgrounds in Dallas
The 10 most notable fairgrounds in Dallas, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Immersive Gamebox - Deep Ellum, Dallas
2525 Elm St Ste 110
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.373, percentile 100 of 14
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2
Sherlock's Escape Rooms Dallas
4887 Alpha Rd Ste 275
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.373, percentile 92.31 of 14
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3
AMC DINE-IN Stonebriar 24
2601 Preston Rd Ste 300
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.259, percentile 84.62 of 14
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4
Great Big Game Show The Colony
5752 Grandscape Dr
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.988, percentile 76.92 of 14
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5
Jungle Joe's
7447 Hillcrest Rd Ste 104
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.911, percentile 69.23 of 14
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6
Ctrl V Virtual Reality Arcade
3000 Custer Rd Ste 250
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.860, percentile 61.54 of 14
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7
Angelika Film Center & Café - Plano
7205 Bishop Rd
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.860, percentile 53.85 of 14
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8
PanIQ Escape Room Dallas
5302 Belt Line Road B
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.860, percentile 46.15 of 14
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9
State Fair Of Texas
Parry Ave &, Exposition Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.860, percentile 38.46 of 14
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10
Fair Park
3809 Grand Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.847, percentile 30.77 of 14
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent calibration: 533 Michelin-starred restaurants in the catalogue were checked against their own group. It is the only designation that covers more than one place, so the ranking is corroborated for restaurants and uncorroborated elsewhere — the manifest says so per run. The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).