 A new way of understanding contextuality operationally was pioneered by Spekkens (2005). Employing the ontological models framework, an ontological model of an operational theory is noncontextual when operationally equivalent experimental procedures have equivalent representations in the ontological model. This understanding of noncontextuality is then a principle of parsimony akin to Leibniz’ law of Identity of Indiscernibles: no ontological difference without operational difference. Using this operational understanding, Spekkens expands the class of ontological models to which contextuality applies beyond deterministic local hidden variable models. But the story is essentially the same: hypothesizing underlying ontic properties for quantum systems that are distinct only if there are corresponding operational differences cannot account for the correlations entailed by quantum theory. Thus, no noncontextual ontological model can reproduce the observed statistics of quantum theory. (For an extended criticism of Spekkens’ operational understanding of contextuality see Hermens 2011.)