Selma, Virginia
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Selma, Virginia is an unincorporated community located in Alleghany County in the western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21368694 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Selma, Virginia Context triple: [Alleghany County, Virginia, contains, Selma, Virginia]
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Selma, Alabama
Selma, Alabama is a historic city best known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, particularly for the 1965 voting rights marches.
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Selma, North Carolina
Selma, North Carolina is a small town in Johnston County known for its historic downtown, railroad heritage, and location along major transportation routes in eastern North Carolina.
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Pettus
Pettus is a surname most notably associated with Edmund Pettus, a 19th-century American politician, Confederate general, and Ku Klux Klan leader whose name is borne by the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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Pettus, West Virginia
Pettus, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Raleigh County, known primarily as a rural residential area in the coalfields region of the state.
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Selma Historic District
The Selma Historic District is a nationally recognized area in Selma, Alabama, noted for its well-preserved 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and its central role in the American civil rights movement.
- 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: Selma, Virginia Target entity description: Selma, Virginia is an unincorporated community located in Alleghany County in the western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Selma, Alabama
Selma, Alabama is a historic city best known as a pivotal center of the American civil rights movement, particularly for the 1965 voting rights marches.
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B.
Selma, North Carolina
Selma, North Carolina is a small town in Johnston County known for its historic downtown, railroad heritage, and location along major transportation routes in eastern North Carolina.
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C.
Pettus
Pettus is a surname most notably associated with Edmund Pettus, a 19th-century American politician, Confederate general, and Ku Klux Klan leader whose name is borne by the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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D.
Pettus, West Virginia
Pettus, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Raleigh County, known primarily as a rural residential area in the coalfields region of the state.
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E.
Selma Historic District
The Selma Historic District is a nationally recognized area in Selma, Alabama, noted for its well-preserved 19th- and early 20th-century architecture and its central role in the American civil rights movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.