Dorrance
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Dorrance is a surname most notably associated with Anson Dorrance, the highly successful American women's soccer coach at the University of North Carolina.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dorrance canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5981079 — 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: Dorrance Context triple: [Anson Dorrance, familyName, Dorrance]
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A.
Denishawn
Denishawn was an influential early 20th-century American modern dance company and school that helped shape modern dance through innovative choreography and training.
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B.
Ballet Society
Ballet Society was a mid-20th-century American ballet organization founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein that served as a precursor to the New York City Ballet.
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C.
Conservatory of Dance
The Conservatory of Dance is the professional dance training program at Purchase College, SUNY, known for its rigorous conservatory-style education in contemporary and classical dance.
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D.
Dranse
The Dranse is a river in the Haute-Savoie region of France that flows from the Alps into Lake Geneva near Thonon-les-Bains.
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E.
Franziska Boas School of Dance
The Franziska Boas School of Dance was a modern dance institution in New York City known for integrating innovative movement, music, and progressive social ideals in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Dorrance Target entity description: Dorrance is a surname most notably associated with Anson Dorrance, the highly successful American women's soccer coach at the University of North Carolina.
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A.
Denishawn
Denishawn was an influential early 20th-century American modern dance company and school that helped shape modern dance through innovative choreography and training.
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B.
Ballet Society
Ballet Society was a mid-20th-century American ballet organization founded by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein that served as a precursor to the New York City Ballet.
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C.
Conservatory of Dance
The Conservatory of Dance is the professional dance training program at Purchase College, SUNY, known for its rigorous conservatory-style education in contemporary and classical dance.
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D.
Dranse
The Dranse is a river in the Haute-Savoie region of France that flows from the Alps into Lake Geneva near Thonon-les-Bains.
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E.
Franziska Boas School of Dance
The Franziska Boas School of Dance was a modern dance institution in New York City known for integrating innovative movement, music, and progressive social ideals in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Soccer Hall of Fame induction
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Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year awards ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coached | United States women's national soccer team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | India NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCoachRole | United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-04-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St. Mary's University, Texas
NERFINISHED
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Dorrance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | women's association football ⓘ |
| givenName | Anson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWon | multiple NCAA Division I women's soccer championships ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Anson Dorrance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | coaching University of North Carolina women's soccer program ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Vision of a Champion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
association football manager
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soccer coach ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bombay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head coach of North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team
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head coach of United States women's national soccer team ⓘ |
| residence | Chapel Hill, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | soccer ⓘ |
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: Dorrance Description of subject: Dorrance is a surname most notably associated with Anson Dorrance, the highly successful American women's soccer coach at the University of North Carolina.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.