José
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José is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name, equivalent to Joseph in English.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| José canonical | 65 |
| Jose (without accent) | 1 |
| José María (compound name) | 1 |
| José means "he will add" or "God will increase" | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3640523 — 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: José Context triple: [José Rodríguez Carballo, givenName, José]
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A.
José
José is the given first name of Major League Baseball manager and former player Alex Cora.
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B.
José
José is the given first name of former Major League Baseball player and coach Joey Cora.
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C.
Enrique
Enrique is a Spanish given name equivalent to the English name Henry.
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D.
Eduardo
Eduardo is a masculine given name commonly used in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, equivalent to the English name Edward.
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E.
Vicente
Vicente is a given name, common in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, that corresponds to the English name Vincent.
- 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: José Target entity description: José is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name, equivalent to Joseph in English.
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A.
José
José is the given first name of Major League Baseball manager and former player Alex Cora.
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B.
José
José is the given first name of former Major League Baseball player and coach Joey Cora.
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C.
Enrique
Enrique is a Spanish given name equivalent to the English name Henry.
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D.
Eduardo
Eduardo is a masculine given name commonly used in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries, equivalent to the English name Edward.
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E.
Vicente
Vicente is a given name, common in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, that corresponds to the English name Vincent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Portuguese given name
ⓘ
Spanish given name ⓘ given name ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| associatedFigure |
Joseph son of Jacob
ⓘ
surface form:
Joseph, son of Jacob in the Bible
Saint Joseph ⓘ
surface form:
Saint Joseph, husband of Mary
|
| associatedReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| category |
Portuguese masculine given names
ⓘ
Spanish masculine given names ⓘ |
| commonInCountry |
Portugal
ⓘ
Spain ⓘ |
| commonInRegion |
Iberian Peninsula
ⓘ
Latin America ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Joseph ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInEnglish | Joseph ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | Hebrew name Yosef ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | acute accent on e ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Giuseppe
ⓘ
José self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jose (without accent)
Jozef ⓘ
surface form:
Josef
Josep ⓘ José Luis (compound name) ⓘ José self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
José María (compound name)
|
| languageOfOrigin |
Portuguese
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| meaning | He will add ⓘ |
| nameDayAssociatedWith |
Saint Joseph's Day
ⓘ
surface form:
Feast of Saint Joseph
|
| shortFormOf |
Flavius Josephus
ⓘ
surface form:
Joséphus (Latinized Joseph)
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| usedByLanguageCommunity |
Portuguese speakers
ⓘ
Spanish speakers ⓘ |
| 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: José Description of subject: José is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name, equivalent to Joseph in English.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Pedro Pascal
this entity surface form:
Jose (without accent)
this entity surface form:
José María (compound name)