Alison
E136320
Alison is a feminine given name of English origin, commonly used in many English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alison canonical | 30 |
| Allison | 11 |
| Alyson | 2 |
| Alison (given name) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T957413 — 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: Alison Context triple: [Alison Bechdel, givenName, Alison]
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A.
Angela
Angela is the given name of Angela Merkel, the long-serving former Chancellor of Germany and a prominent European political leader.
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B.
Angela
Angela is a recurring character on the animated sitcom "Family Guy," known as Peter Griffin’s tough, no-nonsense supervisor at the Pawtucket Brewery.
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C.
Samantha Lewes
Samantha Lewes was an American actress best known as Tom Hanks’s first wife and the mother of actors Colin Hanks and Elizabeth Hanks.
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D.
Alicia
Alicia is the given name of the American singer, songwriter, and pianist Alicia Keys, known for her soulful R&B music and powerful vocals.
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E.
Kathryn
Kathryn is a feminine given name, commonly considered a variant spelling of Katherine/Catherine.
- 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: Alison Target entity description: Alison is a feminine given name of English origin, commonly used in many English-speaking countries.
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A.
Angela
Angela is the given name of Angela Merkel, the long-serving former Chancellor of Germany and a prominent European political leader.
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B.
Angela
Angela is a recurring character on the animated sitcom "Family Guy," known as Peter Griffin’s tough, no-nonsense supervisor at the Pawtucket Brewery.
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C.
Samantha Lewes
Samantha Lewes was an American actress best known as Tom Hanks’s first wife and the mother of actors Colin Hanks and Elizabeth Hanks.
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D.
Alicia
Alicia is the given name of the American singer, songwriter, and pianist Alicia Keys, known for her soulful R&B music and powerful vocals.
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E.
Kathryn
Kathryn is a feminine given name, commonly considered a variant spelling of Katherine/Catherine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English feminine given name
ⓘ
feminine given name ⓘ given name ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin |
diminutive of Alice
ⓘ
medieval French name Alis ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
England
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English language ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Al
ⓘ
Ali ⓘ Allie ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Alisson
ⓘ
Allison ⓘ
linked to:
Alison
Allyson ⓘ
linked to:
Allyson Downey
Alyson ⓘ
linked to:
Alison
|
| nameCategory |
English feminine given names
ⓘ
feminine given names ⓘ |
| nameDay | varies by country ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Alice
ⓘ
Alicia ⓘ |
| typicalUsage | personal name ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ English-speaking countries ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Alison Description of subject: Alison is a feminine given name of English origin, commonly used in many English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (44)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Dale Dobson in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
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