Ovington
E281689
Ovington is the surname of Mary White Ovington, an American suffragist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ovington canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2594521 — 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: Ovington Context triple: [Mary White Ovington, familyName, Ovington]
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A.
Fair Haven
Fair Haven is a historic, traditionally working-class waterfront neighborhood in eastern New Haven, Connecticut, known for its diverse community and maritime roots along the Quinnipiac River.
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B.
Woodhaven
Woodhaven is a residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City, known for its diverse community and proximity to major transit lines and Forest Park.
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C.
Brooklin
Brooklin is a suburban community within the town of Whitby, Ontario, known for its rapidly growing residential areas and small-town village core.
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D.
Colma
Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, best known for its numerous cemeteries and nickname as the "City of Souls."
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E.
Vailsburg
Vailsburg is a primarily residential neighborhood in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, known for its diverse community and tree-lined streets.
- 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: Ovington Target entity description: Ovington is the surname of Mary White Ovington, an American suffragist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
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A.
Fair Haven
Fair Haven is a historic, traditionally working-class waterfront neighborhood in eastern New Haven, Connecticut, known for its diverse community and maritime roots along the Quinnipiac River.
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B.
Woodhaven
Woodhaven is a residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City, known for its diverse community and proximity to major transit lines and Forest Park.
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C.
Brooklin
Brooklin is a suburban community within the town of Whitby, Ontario, known for its rapidly growing residential areas and small-town village core.
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D.
Colma
Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, best known for its numerous cemeteries and nickname as the "City of Souls."
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E.
Vailsburg
Vailsburg is a primarily residential neighborhood in the West Ward of Newark, New Jersey, known for its diverse community and tree-lined streets.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Mary White Ovington ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| usedBy | Mary White Ovington ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Ovington Description of subject: Ovington is the surname of Mary White Ovington, an American suffragist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.