Increase
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Increase is a rare given name most famously borne by Increase Mather, a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political figure.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Increase canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T194319 — 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: Increase Context triple: [Increase Mather, givenName, Increase]
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A.
UP
UP is the standard reporting mark used to identify rail equipment owned or operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in North America.
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B.
INC
INC is a major Indian political party, historically associated with the country’s independence movement and governance after independence.
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C.
DoubleClick
DoubleClick is a digital advertising technology company best known for its ad-serving and campaign management platforms that became a core part of Google’s online advertising business.
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D.
IMP
IMP is an early packet-switching node used in the ARPANET, serving as a precursor to modern internet routers.
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E.
Reach
Reach is a contemporary expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., featuring flexible indoor and outdoor spaces designed for arts education, performance, and community engagement.
- 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: Increase Target entity description: Increase is a rare given name most famously borne by Increase Mather, a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political figure.
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A.
UP
UP is the standard reporting mark used to identify rail equipment owned or operated by the Union Pacific Railroad in North America.
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B.
INC
INC is a major Indian political party, historically associated with the country’s independence movement and governance after independence.
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C.
DoubleClick
DoubleClick is a digital advertising technology company best known for its ad-serving and campaign management platforms that became a core part of Google’s online advertising business.
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D.
IMP
IMP is an early packet-switching node used in the ARPANET, serving as a precursor to modern internet routers.
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E.
Reach
Reach is a contemporary expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., featuring flexible indoor and outdoor spaces designed for arts education, performance, and community engagement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ rare given name ⓘ |
| associatedConcept |
divine blessing
ⓘ
spiritual growth ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Puritan naming tradition ⓘ |
| etymology | English word "increase" meaning "to grow" or "to become greater" ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | masculine name ⓘ |
| grammaticalCategory | proper noun ⓘ |
| hasGivenNameBearer |
Increase A. Lapham
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Increase Carpenter ⓘ Increase Mather ⓘ Increase Moseley ⓘ Sumner ⓘ
surface form:
Increase Sumner
|
| hasShortForm | no commonly used diminutive ⓘ |
| historicalUsageContext |
English-speaking Protestants
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colonial America ⓘ |
| lexicalClassInModernEnglish | also a common noun and verb ⓘ |
| linguisticOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
abstract quality name
ⓘ
virtue name ⓘ |
| nameStatus | archaic ⓘ |
| nameType | first name ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Increase Mather ⓘ |
| popularity | very uncommon ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation | Puritanism ⓘ |
| semanticField |
growth
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prosperity ⓘ |
| usagePeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| usageRegion | New England ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Increase Description of subject: Increase is a rare given name most famously borne by Increase Mather, a prominent 17th-century New England Puritan minister and political figure.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.