Van Dort
E1020231
Van Dort is the surname of Victor Van Dort, the timid protagonist from Tim Burton’s animated film "Corpse Bride."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Van Dort canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13099315 — 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: Van Dort Context triple: [Victor Van Dort, familyName, Van Dort]
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A.
Winslow
Winslow is the main commercial and residential hub of Bainbridge Island, Washington, known for its downtown shops, restaurants, and ferry terminal connecting to Seattle.
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B.
Winslow
Winslow is an English-origin surname historically associated with early colonial families in New England.
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C.
Winslow
Winslow is a small historic market town in Buckinghamshire, England, known for its traditional architecture and rural surroundings.
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D.
Ovington
Ovington is the surname of Mary White Ovington, an American suffragist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
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E.
Ovington
Ovington is a small village located within the Tynedale area of Northumberland in northern England.
- 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: Van Dort Target entity description: Van Dort is the surname of Victor Van Dort, the timid protagonist from Tim Burton’s animated film "Corpse Bride."
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A.
Winslow
Winslow is the main commercial and residential hub of Bainbridge Island, Washington, known for its downtown shops, restaurants, and ferry terminal connecting to Seattle.
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B.
Winslow
Winslow is a small historic market town in Buckinghamshire, England, known for its traditional architecture and rural surroundings.
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C.
Winslow
Winslow is an English-origin surname historically associated with early colonial families in New England.
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D.
Ovington
Ovington is the surname of Mary White Ovington, an American suffragist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
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E.
Ovington
Ovington is a small village located within the Tynedale area of Northumberland in northern England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
animated film
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animated film character ⓘ family name ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ fictional family ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Corpse Bride
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Corpse Bride ⓘ Corpse Bride ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Van Dort family ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
kind-hearted
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nervous ⓘ timid ⓘ |
| createdBy | Tim Burton ⓘ |
| director |
Mike Johnson
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Tim Burton ⓘ |
| familyName | Van Dort ⓘ |
| fiancéOf | Victoria Everglot ⓘ |
| givenName | Victor ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| nameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Johnny Depp ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2005 ⓘ |
| roleInWork | protagonist ⓘ |
| spellingVariantOf |
Van Doort
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Van Dortt ⓘ |
| surname | Van Dort ⓘ |
| usedBy | Victor Van Dort ⓘ |
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: Van Dort Description of subject: Van Dort is the surname of Victor Van Dort, the timid protagonist from Tim Burton’s animated film "Corpse Bride."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.