Davisville
E635912
Davisville was the original name of the city now known as Davis, California, a college town best known as the home of the University of California, Davis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Davisville canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6994639 — 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: Davisville Context triple: [Davis, California, originalName, Davisville]
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A.
Davisville Village
Davisville Village is a midtown Toronto residential neighbourhood known for its mix of apartment buildings and family homes, convenient transit access, and vibrant local shops and restaurants.
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B.
Mapleville
Mapleville is a small village and census-designated place located within the town of Burrillville in northern Rhode Island.
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C.
Wilsonville
Wilsonville is a small town in Shelby County, Alabama, known for its rural character and proximity to the Coosa River.
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D.
Wilsonville
Wilsonville is a suburban city in northwestern Oregon, located south of Portland along the Willamette River and known for its mix of residential communities, industrial parks, and regional transportation links.
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E.
Westvale
Westvale is a residential area in the town of Kirkby in Merseyside, England.
- 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: Davisville Target entity description: Davisville was the original name of the city now known as Davis, California, a college town best known as the home of the University of California, Davis.
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A.
Davisville Village
Davisville Village is a midtown Toronto residential neighbourhood known for its mix of apartment buildings and family homes, convenient transit access, and vibrant local shops and restaurants.
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B.
Mapleville
Mapleville is a small village and census-designated place located within the town of Burrillville in northern Rhode Island.
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C.
Wilsonville
Wilsonville is a small town in Shelby County, Alabama, known for its rural character and proximity to the Coosa River.
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D.
Wilsonville
Wilsonville is a suburban city in northwestern Oregon, located south of Portland along the Willamette River and known for its mix of residential communities, industrial parks, and regional transportation links.
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E.
Westvale
Westvale is a residential area in the town of Kirkby in Merseyside, England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
former place name
ⓘ
historical settlement name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
agricultural community
ⓘ
college town development ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| developedAround | railroad station ⓘ |
| hasCurrentName | Davis, California ⓘ |
| hasSuccessor | Davis, California ⓘ |
| historicalRole | early railroad town in Yolo County ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California
ⓘ
linked to:
California, United States
Yolo County, California ⓘ
linked to:
Yolo County
|
| locatedOn |
Putah Creek (region)
ⓘ
linked to:
Putah Creek
|
| namedAfter | Jerome C. Davis ⓘ |
| nameType | toponym ⓘ |
| near |
Sacramento, California
ⓘ
linked to:
Sacramento
Woodland, California ⓘ |
| nowKnownFor |
University of California, Davis (via Davis, California)
ⓘ
linked to:
University of California, Davis
|
| originalNameOf | Davis, California ⓘ |
| partOf |
Northern California
ⓘ
Sacramento Valley ⓘ |
| postalName | Davisville, California ⓘ |
| railwayStopOn | California Pacific Railroad ⓘ |
| replacedByName | Davis, California ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
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: Davisville Description of subject: Davisville was the original name of the city now known as Davis, California, a college town best known as the home of the University of California, Davis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.