personal name

C4179
concept

A personal name is a word or set of words used to uniquely identify and distinguish an individual person within a social or cultural context.

All labels observed (23)

Label Occurrences
human name 310
personal name canonical 166
given name and surname combination 75

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: personal name
Generated description
A personal name is a word or set of words used to uniquely identify and distinguish an individual person within a social or cultural context.

Instances (682)

Instance Via concept surface
Francesco Esposito human name
Chesney first name
Yehuda Peretz human name
José Tavares
Martin Hoffman human name
James Kirkwood (multiple individuals)
surface form: James Kirkwood (name)
humanName
Tham
Ryan McDermott human name
John Burnett human name
Garrigue
Peter Hoffman human name
Michael Kerr humanName
Zhu Shou
Andreas Schmidt human name
Minor first name
Bert givenName
John
surface form: John Lamb
human name
Dagmaer first name
Thomasina Hamilton
William Weiss human name
John Snodgrass given name and surname combination
Arthel first name
Torhi human name
John first name
Robert McDermott human name
Akira Satō human name
Herbert Weiss human name
Leonard Weiss given name and surname combination
Martin Schmidt human name
Jürgen Schmidt human name
Wark
Atsuhito
Michael König given name and surname
Alexander Osburn human name
Roger Miner given name and surname combination
William Hardy humanName
Michael Sullivan human name
José de Garnica
William McDermott human name
Jean-Jacques Rabin birth name
Mansa Mata
Halle Brown (fictional examples possible)
surface form: Halle Brown
placeholder personal name
Alice placeholder name
Wadee
John Wade human name
Abdus Shahid (various individuals)
surface form: Abdus Shahid
human name
Ho
Timothy Sullivan human name
William Wade humanName
John Murray human name