Coddington
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Coddington is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including early American colonial figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Coddington canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1753170 — 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: Coddington Context triple: [William Coddington, familyName, Coddington]
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A.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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B.
Brewster
Brewster is the given name of Brewster Kahle, an American computer engineer and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive.
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C.
Brewster
Brewster is an English occupational surname historically associated with brewing ale or beer.
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Brewster
Brewster is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its scenic beaches, historic charm, and bayside conservation lands.
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E.
Brewster
Brewster is a small hamlet and census-designated place in Putnam County, New York, known for its historic downtown and role as a local commercial and transportation hub.
- 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: Coddington Target entity description: Coddington is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including early American colonial figures.
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A.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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B.
Brewster
Brewster is the given name of Brewster Kahle, an American computer engineer and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive.
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C.
Brewster
Brewster is an English occupational surname historically associated with brewing ale or beer.
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D.
Brewster
Brewster is a coastal town on Cape Cod in Massachusetts known for its scenic beaches, historic charm, and bayside conservation lands.
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E.
Brewster
Brewster is a small hamlet and census-designated place in Putnam County, New York, known for its historic downtown and role as a local commercial and transportation hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Coddington Description of subject: Coddington is an English-origin surname borne by various notable individuals, including early American colonial figures.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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