Anna
E161036
Anna is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor," widely used across many cultures and languages.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anna canonical | 72 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1138116 — 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: Anna Context triple: [Anna Seward, givenName, Anna]
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A.
Anna
Anna is the given name of Anna Murray Douglass, an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass.
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B.
Anna
Anna is a character from the video game "Surfacing," likely serving as a key figure in the game's narrative or player interactions.
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C.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential former First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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D.
Anna
Anna is a central female character in the comedy Western film "A Million Ways to Die in the West," portrayed as a sharp-shooting, quick-witted woman who helps the protagonist toughen up in the dangerous frontier.
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E.
Anna
Anna was Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740, known for her autocratic rule and the dominance of her German favorites at court.
- 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: Anna Target entity description: Anna is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor," widely used across many cultures and languages.
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A.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential former First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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B.
Anna
Anna is the given name of pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong, a trailblazing early Hollywood star and fashion icon.
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C.
Anna
Anna is the given name of Anna Murray Douglass, an African American abolitionist and the first wife of Frederick Douglass.
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D.
Anna
Anna was Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740, known for her autocratic rule and the dominance of her German favorites at court.
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E.
Anna
Anna is a central female character in the comedy Western film "A Million Ways to Die in the West," portrayed as a sharp-shooting, quick-witted woman who helps the protagonist toughen up in the dangerous frontier.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
feminine given name ⓘ given name ⓘ |
| etymologicalMeaning |
favor
ⓘ
grace ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot |
חַנָּה
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surface form:
Hebrew Channah
|
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Ania
ⓘ
Anka ⓘ Ann ⓘ Annie ⓘ Anya ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
favor
ⓘ
grace ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasRelatedName |
Ana
ⓘ
Ania ⓘ Anja ⓘ Ann ⓘ Anne ⓘ Anya ⓘ Hannah ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith | biblical traditions ⓘ |
| isCommonIn | Christian cultures ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
Czech language
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surface form:
Czech
Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ German ⓘ Greek ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Italian ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Scandinavian languages ⓘ Slovak ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Hannah ⓘ |
| popularity | widely used internationally ⓘ |
| scriptForm |
Άννα
ⓘ
Анна ⓘ |
| scriptLanguage |
Bulgarian
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Greek ⓘ Russian ⓘ Ukrainian ⓘ |
| shortFormOf |
Anastasia
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Johanna ⓘ |
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: Anna Description of subject: Anna is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "grace" or "favor," widely used across many cultures and languages.
Referenced by (72)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Santa Ana
subject surface form:
Hannah
subject surface form:
Hannah
subject surface form:
Anna of Russia