Duval
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Duval is a surname of French origin borne by various notable individuals, including American territorial governor William Pope Duval.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Duval canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8347228 — 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: Duval Context triple: [William Pope Duval, familyName, Duval]
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A.
Terrebonne
Terrebonne is a suburban city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, located north of Montreal on the North Shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles.
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B.
Sumter
Sumter is a surname of English origin most notably associated with several prominent American historical figures and families.
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C.
Grand Pré
Grand Pré is a historic rural community in Nova Scotia, Canada, best known as a center of early Acadian settlement and the site of significant events during the colonial conflicts between France and Britain.
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D.
Suwannee, Florida
Suwannee, Florida is a small coastal community in Dixie County known for its location at the Gulf of Mexico where the Suwannee River meets the sea, popular for fishing and boating.
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E.
Palmetto
Palmetto is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train service operating along the U.S. East Coast between New York City and Savannah, Georgia.
- 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: Duval Target entity description: Duval is a surname of French origin borne by various notable individuals, including American territorial governor William Pope Duval.
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A.
Terrebonne
Terrebonne is a suburban city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, located north of Montreal on the North Shore of the Rivière des Mille Îles.
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B.
Sumter
Sumter is a surname of English origin most notably associated with several prominent American historical figures and families.
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C.
Grand Pré
Grand Pré is a historic rural community in Nova Scotia, Canada, best known as a center of early Acadian settlement and the site of significant events during the colonial conflicts between France and Britain.
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D.
Suwannee, Florida
Suwannee, Florida is a small coastal community in Dixie County known for its location at the Gulf of Mexico where the Suwannee River meets the sea, popular for fishing and boating.
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E.
Palmetto
Palmetto is a long-distance Amtrak passenger train service operating along the U.S. East Coast between New York City and Savannah, Georgia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| appointedBy | James Monroe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1784-09-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1854-03-19 ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | French ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | from the valley ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alfred Duval
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
André Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Antoine Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Charles Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Claude Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ François Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Gaston Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Georges Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Henri Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Henriette Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ John Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Louis Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Louise Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Lucien Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcel Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Marie Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Maurice Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Pierre Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ René Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ William Pope Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ Émile Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Duval NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Du Val
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
DuVal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Pope ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as the first civilian governor of Florida Territory ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Governor of Florida Territory
ⓘ
United States Representative NERFINISHED ⓘ judge ⓘ |
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: Duval Description of subject: Duval is a surname of French origin borne by various notable individuals, including American territorial governor William Pope Duval.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.