Joshua
E126068
Joshua is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1086740 — 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: Joshua Context triple: [Josh Bolten, givenName, Joshua]
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A.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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B.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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C.
Joshua son of Jehozadak
Joshua son of Jehozadak was the high priest of the Jewish community during the early post-exilic period, serving alongside Zerubbabel in the rebuilding and restoration of worship at the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
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D.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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E.
Obed
Obed is a biblical figure known as the son of Boaz and Ruth and the grandfather of King David, appearing in the genealogy of Jesus in the New Testament.
- 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: Joshua Target entity description: Joshua is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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A.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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B.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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C.
Joshua son of Jehozadak
Joshua son of Jehozadak was the high priest of the Jewish community during the early post-exilic period, serving alongside Zerubbabel in the rebuilding and restoration of worship at the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
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D.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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E.
Obed
Obed is a biblical figure known as the son of Boaz and Ruth and the grandfather of King David, appearing in the genealogy of Jesus in the New Testament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English masculine given name
ⓘ
Hebrew masculine given name ⓘ given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| category |
Biblical given names
ⓘ
English masculine given names ⓘ Hebrew masculine given names ⓘ |
| etymologicallyDerivedFrom |
Joshua
ⓘ
surface form:
Yehoshua
|
| hasCognate |
Joshua
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Giosuè
Joshua ⓘ
surface form:
Josué
Jozef ⓘ
surface form:
Jozef (related form)
Jozue ⓘ
surface form:
Jozua
Jozue ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
The Lord is salvation
ⓘ
Yahweh is salvation ⓘ |
| hasNameDay | varies by country ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Hebrew culture
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew language
|
| hasReligiousAssociation |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Josh ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Josh
ⓘ
Josue ⓘ Joshua ⓘ
surface form:
Yehoshua
Joshua ⓘ
surface form:
Yehoshua ben Nun
Joshua ⓘ
surface form:
Yehoshuaʿ
Jesus Christ ⓘ
surface form:
Yeshua
|
| namedAfter | biblical figure Joshua ⓘ |
| rankedInTop | Top 10 boys' names in the United States in late 20th century ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Afrikaans
ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Tagalog ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ South Africa ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| wasPopularInDecade |
1980s (United States)
ⓘ
1990s (United States) ⓘ 2000s (United States) ⓘ |
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: Joshua Description of subject: Joshua is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.