Boaz, West Virginia
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Boaz, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Wood County, known for its residential character and proximity to the Ohio River and the city of Parkersburg.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Boaz, West Virginia canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20288610 — 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: Boaz, West Virginia Context triple: [Vienna, West Virginia, adjacentTo, Boaz, West Virginia]
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Vance, West Virginia
Vance, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in rural Hampshire County in the Eastern Panhandle region of the state.
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B.
Bayard, West Virginia
Bayard, West Virginia is a small town in Grant County known for its location near the headwaters of the Potomac River and the historic Fairfax Stone.
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C.
Sylvester, West Virginia
Sylvester, West Virginia is a small town located in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.
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D.
Burton, West Virginia
Burton, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in rural Wetzel County in the northern part of the state.
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E.
Bethany, West Virginia
Bethany, West Virginia is a small historic town in the state's Northern Panhandle, best known as the home of Bethany College and its picturesque rural campus.
- 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: Boaz, West Virginia Target entity description: Boaz, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community in Wood County, known for its residential character and proximity to the Ohio River and the city of Parkersburg.
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A.
Vance, West Virginia
Vance, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in rural Hampshire County in the Eastern Panhandle region of the state.
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B.
Bayard, West Virginia
Bayard, West Virginia is a small town in Grant County known for its location near the headwaters of the Potomac River and the historic Fairfax Stone.
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C.
Sylvester, West Virginia
Sylvester, West Virginia is a small town located in the coal-mining region of southern West Virginia.
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D.
Burton, West Virginia
Burton, West Virginia is a small unincorporated community located in rural Wetzel County in the northern part of the state.
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E.
Bethany, West Virginia
Bethany, West Virginia is a small historic town in the state's Northern Panhandle, best known as the home of Bethany College and its picturesque rural campus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.