Davo
E182797
Davo is a common informal nickname or short form of the given name David, often used in English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1615877 — 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: Davo Context triple: [David, hasShortForm, Davo]
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A.
Anto
Anto is a diminutive given name, commonly used as a short form of names like Anton or Antonio in various European and Slavic cultures.
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B.
Dara
Dara is a given name most prominently associated with Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian-American businessman and CEO of Uber.
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C.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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D.
Diego
Diego is a given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Riggo
Riggo is the nickname of John Riggins, a Hall of Fame NFL running back best known for his powerful rushing style with the Washington Redskins.
- 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: Davo Target entity description: Davo is a common informal nickname or short form of the given name David, often used in English-speaking countries.
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A.
Anto
Anto is a diminutive given name, commonly used as a short form of names like Anton or Antonio in various European and Slavic cultures.
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B.
Dara
Dara is a given name most prominently associated with Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian-American businessman and CEO of Uber.
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C.
Durkan
Durkan is a surname most notably associated with Jenny Durkan, the former mayor of Seattle and an American attorney and politician.
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D.
Diego
Diego is a given name of Spanish origin commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Riggo
Riggo is the nickname of John Riggins, a Hall of Fame NFL running back best known for his powerful rushing style with the Washington Redskins.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
hypocorism
ⓘ
nickname ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | David ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Hebrew name David ⓘ |
| formedBy | adding-oSuffixToDavid ⓘ |
| hasRelatedNickname |
Dave
ⓘ
Davie ⓘ Davy ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Davo
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Dav-O
Davo self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Davvo
|
| isInformalFormOf | David ⓘ |
| nameCategory | English masculine nickname ⓘ |
| oftenAssociatedWith | Australian English slang ⓘ |
| orthographicPattern | baseNamePlus-oSuffix ⓘ |
| semanticOrigin | beloved ⓘ |
| shortFormOf | David ⓘ |
| typicalGender | male ⓘ |
| usageContext |
friends and family
ⓘ
sports teams ⓘ workplace nicknames ⓘ |
| usageRegister | informal ⓘ |
| usedAsGivenName | yes ⓘ |
| usedAsSurname | no ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Australia
ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Davo Description of subject: Davo is a common informal nickname or short form of the given name David, often used in English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Davids
this entity surface form:
Davids
this entity surface form:
Davvo
this entity surface form:
Dav-O