Washington
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English-language surname
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Washington is a common English surname most famously borne by George Washington, the first president of the United States.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Washington canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T35752 — 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: Washington Context triple: [George Washington, familyName, Washington]
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Washington
Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, technology industry centered around Seattle, and significant cultural and economic influence on the West Coast.
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Oregon
Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, including rugged coastline, dense forests, mountains, and high desert, as well as its environmentally conscious culture.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is the federal district of the United States that contains the nation’s capital city, Washington, D.C., and serves as the seat of the U.S. federal government.
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Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
- 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: Washington Target entity description: Washington is a common English surname most famously borne by George Washington, the first president of the United States.
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A.
Washington
Washington is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, technology industry centered around Seattle, and significant cultural and economic influence on the West Coast.
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B.
Oregon
Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest known for its diverse landscapes, including rugged coastline, dense forests, mountains, and high desert, as well as its environmentally conscious culture.
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C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States, serving as the nation’s political center and home to its federal government institutions.
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D.
District of Columbia
The District of Columbia is the federal district of the United States that contains the nation’s capital city, Washington, D.C., and serves as the seat of the U.S. federal government.
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Maryland
Maryland is a Mid-Atlantic U.S. state known for its Chesapeake Bay shoreline, colonial history, and proximity to the nation’s capital.
- 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: Washington Description of subject: Washington is a common English surname most famously borne by George Washington, the first president of the United States.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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George
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Washington
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Washington
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Washington
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Washington
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Washington
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Washington
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Washington
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Washington
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Joshua Washington in Until Dawn