NV
E16223
NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| NV canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T140250 — 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: NV Context triple: [Nevada, postalAbbreviation, NV]
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A.
NR
NR is the standard abbreviation for National Rail, the collective network of passenger railway services in Great Britain.
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B.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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C.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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D.
.ng
.ng is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Nigeria for use in its internet addresses.
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E.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
- 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: NV Target entity description: NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
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A.
NR
NR is the standard abbreviation for National Rail, the collective network of passenger railway services in Great Britain.
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B.
NE
NE is the common abbreviation for the New England Revolution, a professional Major League Soccer club based in the Greater Boston area.
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C.
NCP
NCP (Network Control Protocol) was an early host-to-host communication protocol suite that enabled data exchange between computers on the ARPANET before the adoption of TCP/IP.
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D.
.ng
.ng is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) assigned to Nigeria for use in its internet addresses.
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E.
SV
SV is the two-letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code assigned to El Salvador.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | United States Postal Service state abbreviation ⓘ |
| appliesTo | U.S. state ⓘ |
| associatedState | Nevada ⓘ |
| associatedStateCapital | Carson City ⓘ |
| category | U.S. state postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| codeLength | 2 letters ⓘ |
| codeStandard |
United States Postal Service
ⓘ
surface form:
USPS
|
| codeType | postal abbreviation ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| distinctFrom |
NV (abbreviation for non-void or non-vintage in other contexts)
ⓘ
NV (stock ticker symbols) ⓘ |
| formatExample | Reno, NV 89501 ⓘ |
| governingBody | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| introducedBy | United States Postal Service ⓘ |
| isOn | U.S. postal addresses ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Nevada ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| refersTo | Nevada ⓘ |
| region |
western United States
ⓘ
surface form:
Western United States
|
| uppercaseForm | NV ⓘ |
| usedFor | mail addressing ⓘ |
| usedIn | United States postal system ⓘ |
| usedWith | United States ZIP codes ⓘ |
| 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: NV Description of subject: NV is the official two-letter United States Postal Service abbreviation for the state of Nevada.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nate "NV" Vernon