Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States
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Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States, is a small rural community best known as the birthplace of James E. Webb, the influential NASA administrator for whom the James Webb Space Telescope is named.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tally Ho, North Carolina | 1 |
| Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2730607 — 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: Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States Context triple: [James E. Webb, placeOfBirth, Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States]
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A.
Washington, North Carolina, United States
Washington, North Carolina, United States is a small historic city on the Pamlico River in eastern North Carolina, known as the "Original Washington" and recognized for its waterfront, colonial heritage, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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B.
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Hillsborough, North Carolina, is a historic small town known for its preserved 18th- and 19th-century architecture and vibrant arts and literary community.
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C.
Havelock, North Carolina
Havelock, North Carolina is a small city in Craven County best known as the home of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and its associated military aviation community.
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D.
Henderson, North Carolina, United States
Henderson, North Carolina, United States is a small city in Vance County best known as the birthplace of soul and R&B singer Ben E. King.
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E.
Snow Hill, North Carolina
Snow Hill, North Carolina is a small town in eastern North Carolina that serves as the administrative and cultural hub of Greene County.
- 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: Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States Target entity description: Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States, is a small rural community best known as the birthplace of James E. Webb, the influential NASA administrator for whom the James Webb Space Telescope is named.
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A.
Washington, North Carolina, United States
Washington, North Carolina, United States is a small historic city on the Pamlico River in eastern North Carolina, known as the "Original Washington" and recognized for its waterfront, colonial heritage, and role as a regional cultural and economic center.
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B.
Hillsborough, North Carolina
Hillsborough, North Carolina, is a historic small town known for its preserved 18th- and 19th-century architecture and vibrant arts and literary community.
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C.
Havelock, North Carolina
Havelock, North Carolina is a small city in Craven County best known as the home of Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and its associated military aviation community.
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D.
Henderson, North Carolina, United States
Henderson, North Carolina, United States is a small city in Vance County best known as the birthplace of soul and R&B singer Ben E. King.
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E.
Snow Hill, North Carolina
Snow Hill, North Carolina is a small town in eastern North Carolina that serves as the administrative and cultural hub of Greene County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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rural community ⓘ space telescope ⓘ unincorporated community ⓘ |
| administrativeStatus | unincorporated ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Tally Ho, North Carolina
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| category |
Unincorporated communities in Granville County, North Carolina
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Unincorporated communities in North Carolina ⓘ |
| characteristic |
rural
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small population ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| countrySubdivision |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| governingBody |
Granville County Board of Commissioners
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surface form:
Granville County government
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| hasFeature | agricultural surroundings ⓘ |
| historicalAssociation | early life of James E. Webb ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Granville County, North Carolina
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North Carolina ⓘ
surface form:
North Carolina, United States
Southern United States ⓘ
surface form:
United States South
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| locatedInTimeZone | Eastern Time Zone ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Oxford, North Carolina ⓘ |
| namedAfter | James E. Webb ⓘ |
| nameGivenTo | James Webb Space Telescope ⓘ |
| notableAs | birthplace of James E. Webb ⓘ |
| occupation | NASA administrator ⓘ |
| populationCharacteristic | sparsely populated ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Administrator of NASA ⓘ |
| region | Piedmont region of North Carolina ⓘ |
| state | North Carolina ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | UTC−04:00 ⓘ |
| timeZoneStandard | UTC−05:00 ⓘ |
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: Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States Description of subject: Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States, is a small rural community best known as the birthplace of James E. Webb, the influential NASA administrator for whom the James Webb Space Telescope is named.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States
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birthPlace
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Tally Ho, North Carolina, United States
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
James E. Webb
this entity surface form:
Tally Ho, North Carolina