Shaw
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Shaw is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in literature, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shaw canonical | 53 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2414227 — 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: Shaw Context triple: [George Bernard Shaw, familyName, Shaw]
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A.
Shaw
Shaw is a historic, culturally rich neighborhood in Washington, D.C., known for its African American heritage, jazz legacy, and vibrant urban revival.
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B.
Shaw
Shaw is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England, known historically for its role in the textile industry.
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C.
Shaw (partial)
Shaw is a historic Washington, D.C. neighborhood known for its African American cultural heritage, vibrant arts and nightlife, and significant role in the city’s civil rights history.
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D.
Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
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E.
R. C. Sherriff
R. C. Sherriff was an English playwright and screenwriter best known for his World War I play "Journey's End" and his work on several notable British films.
- 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: Shaw Target entity description: Shaw is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in literature, politics, and the arts.
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A.
Shaw
Shaw is a historic, culturally rich neighborhood in Washington, D.C., known for its African American heritage, jazz legacy, and vibrant urban revival.
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B.
Shaw
Shaw is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham in Greater Manchester, England, known historically for its role in the textile industry.
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C.
Shaw (partial)
Shaw is a historic Washington, D.C. neighborhood known for its African American cultural heritage, vibrant arts and nightlife, and significant role in the city’s civil rights history.
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D.
Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for adapting Margaret Mitchell’s novel into the Academy Award–winning screenplay for the film "Gone with the Wind."
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E.
R. C. Sherriff
R. C. Sherriff was an English playwright and screenwriter best known for his World War I play "Journey's End" and his work on several notable British films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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Scottish surname ⓘ family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
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Scottish surnames ⓘ Surnames of English origin ⓘ Surnames of Scottish origin ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
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Scots ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
clearing in the woods
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dweller by the wood ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Anna Howard Shaw
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Artie Shaw ⓘ Bryan Shaw ⓘ Caroline Shaw ⓘ George Bernard Shaw ⓘ Irwin Shaw ⓘ John Shaw ⓘ Lemuel Shaw ⓘ Norman Shaw ⓘ Robert Gould Shaw ⓘ T. E. Shaw ⓘ Vinessa Shaw ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfPrevalence |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasType |
occupational surname
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toponymic surname ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Shawe
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Shawes ⓘ |
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: Shaw Description of subject: Shaw is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in literature, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (53)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bob Shaw, Northern Irish science fiction author and fan writer
subject linked to:
Zeke Shaw in The 100