Donan
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Donan is a variant spelling of the name Donen, which is used as a personal or family name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10954710 — 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: Donan Context triple: [Donen, hasVariantSpelling, Donan]
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A.
Samil
Samil is a civil parish located within the municipality of Bragança in northeastern Portugal.
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B.
Yanco
Yanco is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural activities and irrigation history.
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C.
Geary
Geary is a small crofting settlement on the Waternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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D.
Hejduk
Hejduk is a surname most notably associated with American soccer player Frankie Hejduk, a former U.S. international and Major League Soccer defender.
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E.
Sindo
Sindo is an island and administrative division of Ongjin County in Incheon, South Korea, known for its rural landscape and coastal environment.
- 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: Donan Target entity description: Donan is a variant spelling of the name Donen, which is used as a personal or family name.
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A.
Samil
Samil is a civil parish located within the municipality of Bragança in northeastern Portugal.
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B.
Yanco
Yanco is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural activities and irrigation history.
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C.
Geary
Geary is a small crofting settlement on the Waternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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D.
Hejduk
Hejduk is a surname most notably associated with American soccer player Frankie Hejduk, a former U.S. international and Major League Soccer defender.
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E.
Sindo
Sindo is an island and administrative division of Ongjin County in Incheon, South Korea, known for its rural landscape and coastal environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling | Donen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameCategory | proper noun ⓘ |
| usedAs |
family name
ⓘ
personal name ⓘ |
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: Donan Description of subject: Donan is a variant spelling of the name Donen, which is used as a personal or family name.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.