Nourse
E25949
Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nourse canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T182698 — 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: Nourse Context triple: [Nurse, hasVariant, Nourse]
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A.
Colwell
Colwell is a surname most notably associated with Rita R. Colwell, an influential American microbiologist and former director of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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B.
Erwin
Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
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C.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
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D.
Griffith
Griffith is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural production, especially wine and citrus, and its culturally diverse community.
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E.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
- 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: Nourse Target entity description: Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
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A.
Colwell
Colwell is a surname most notably associated with Rita R. Colwell, an influential American microbiologist and former director of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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B.
Erwin
Erwin is a masculine given name of German origin, historically associated with figures such as the World War II field marshal Erwin Rommel.
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C.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
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D.
Griffith
Griffith is a major regional city in New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural production, especially wine and citrus, and its culturally diverse community.
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E.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRelationTo | Nurse ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alan E. Nourse
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Christopher Nourse ⓘ Craig Nourse ⓘ Edith Nourse Rogers ⓘ Elizabeth Nourse ⓘ Henry Nourse ⓘ
surface form:
Henry M. Nourse
Henry Nourse ⓘ J. E. Nourse ⓘ James Nourse ⓘ Joseph Nourse ⓘ Lauren Nourse ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
Nourse
self-linksurface differs
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Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ Nourse self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpellingOf | Nurse ⓘ |
| occupation |
netball player
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painter ⓘ physician ⓘ politician ⓘ science fiction writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the United States House of Representatives
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Register of the Treasury ⓘ
surface form:
Register of the United States Treasury
|
| usedAs |
business name
ⓘ
place name ⓘ |
| usedIn | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
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: Nourse Description of subject: Nourse is a surname and variant spelling of "Nurse," historically associated with English-speaking families and occasionally used as a place or business name.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edith Nourse Rogers
subject surface form:
Alan E. Nourse
subject surface form:
Henry Nourse
subject surface form:
Joseph Nourse
subject surface form:
Christopher Nourse
subject surface form:
Lauren Nourse
subject surface form:
Craig Nourse
subject surface form:
Elizabeth Nourse
subject surface form:
Henry M. Nourse
subject surface form:
J. E. Nourse
subject surface form:
James Nourse