Samuel
E18206
Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samuel canonical | 233 |
| Samuël | 2 |
| Samuel Elijah | 1 |
| Samuele | 1 |
| Samuele (related form in Italian for Samuel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T69850 — 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: Samuel Context triple: [Samuel Gompers, givenName, Samuel]
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A.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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B.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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C.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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E.
Isaac
Isaac is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "he will laugh" or "laughter."
- 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: Samuel Target entity description: Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
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A.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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B.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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C.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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E.
Isaac
Isaac is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "he will laugh" or "laughter."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith | prophet Samuel in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Sam
ⓘ
surface form:
Sammy
|
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasLanguageForm |
Amharic
ⓘ
Arabic ⓘ Bengali ⓘ Chinese ⓘ Czech ⓘ Danish ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ Finnish ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Gujarati ⓘ Hausa ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Hindi ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Igbo ⓘ Indonesian ⓘ Italian ⓘ Japanese ⓘ Korean ⓘ Malay ⓘ Marathi language ⓘ
surface form:
Marathi
Norwegian ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Punjabi language ⓘ
surface form:
Punjabi
Romanian language ⓘ
surface form:
Romanian
Russian ⓘ Slovak ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swahili language ⓘ
surface form:
Swahili
Swedish ⓘ Tagalog ⓘ Tamil ⓘ Telugu ⓘ Turkish ⓘ Ukrainian ⓘ Yoruba ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
God has heard
ⓘ
name of God ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hebrew language ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Sam ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Samu
ⓘ
Samuel self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Samuele
Shmuel ⓘ
surface form:
Samuil
Samuel self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Samuël
Shmuel ⓘ |
| isBiblicalName | true ⓘ |
| usedInReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
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: Samuel Description of subject: Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
Referenced by (238)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Samuel Nelson
subject surface form:
Samuel Ashe
subject surface form:
Sammy Cahn
subject surface form:
William S. Paley
subject surface form:
Sam Page