James
E1815
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James canonical | 1,510 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3198 — 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: James Context triple: [James Roosevelt I, givenName, James]
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A.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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B.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
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C.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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D.
William
William is a common masculine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
- 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: James Target entity description: James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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A.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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B.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
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C.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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D.
William
William is a common masculine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| canBeUsedAs | middle name ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalConnection | yes ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Biblical names
ⓘ
English masculine given names ⓘ Hebrew-language given names ⓘ |
| hasCognate |
Diego
ⓘ
Andreas ⓘ
surface form:
Giacomo
Iago ⓘ Jacques ⓘ Seamus ⓘ Tiago ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Jamie
ⓘ
Jim ⓘ Jim ⓘ
surface form:
Jimmy
|
| hasEtymologicalMeaning | one who supplants ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | supplanter ⓘ |
| hasNameDayTradition | Christian cultures ⓘ |
| hasNameType | first name ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Jamie
ⓘ
Jem ⓘ Jim ⓘ Jim ⓘ
surface form:
Jimmy
|
| isCommonInCentury |
19th century
ⓘ
20th century ⓘ 21st century ⓘ |
| isCommonInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| isDerivedFrom |
Late Latin Iacomus
ⓘ
Latin Iacobus ⓘ |
| isRelatedName |
Diego
ⓘ
Jacob ⓘ Jamie ⓘ Jim ⓘ Jim ⓘ
surface form:
Jimmy
Seamus ⓘ Tiago ⓘ |
| isUltimatelyFrom |
Jacob
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Ya'aqov
|
| isUsedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| isUsedInRegion | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Jacob ⓘ |
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: James Description of subject: James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (1,510)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James Bowdoin
subject surface form:
James S. Coleman
subject surface form:
James F. Byrnes