Jonathan
E44008
Jonathan is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "Yahweh has given."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan canonical | 231 |
| Jon | 7 |
| Jack Benjamin is loosely based on Jonathan | 1 |
| Johnathan | 1 |
| Jonathon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T220953 — 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: Jonathan Context triple: [Jonathan Edwards, givenName, Jonathan]
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A.
Justin
Justin is the given name of Justin Trudeau, the 23rd prime minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party.
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B.
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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C.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
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D.
Jason
Jason is a famed hero of Greek mythology best known as the leader of the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece.
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E.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Jonathan Target entity description: Jonathan is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "Yahweh has given."
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A.
Justin
Justin is the given name of Justin Trudeau, the 23rd prime minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party.
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B.
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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C.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
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D.
Jason
Jason is a famed hero of Greek mythology best known as the leader of the Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece.
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E.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| category |
Biblical given names
ⓘ
English masculine given names ⓘ Hebrew masculine given names ⓘ |
| cognate |
Yonatan
ⓘ
surface form:
Yehonatan
Yonatan ⓘ |
| etymologicalElement |
YHWH
ⓘ
surface form:
Yahweh
to give ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasNameDay | varies by country ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Jonathan Edwards
ⓘ
Jonathan Franzen ⓘ Jonathan Ive ⓘ Jonathan Rhys Meyers ⓘ Jonathan Swift ⓘ Jonathan Taylor Thomas ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaning |
God has given
ⓘ
Yahweh has given ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Biblical name ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| shortForm |
John
ⓘ
Johnny ⓘ Jonathan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jon
Jono ⓘ Jonty ⓘ Nate ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
English-speaking countries
ⓘ
Europe ⓘ Israel ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| variantForm |
Jonatan
ⓘ
Jonatan ⓘ
surface form:
Jónatan
Yonatan ⓘ
surface form:
Yehonatan
Yonatan ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Description of subject: Jonathan is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "Yahweh has given."
Referenced by (241)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jonathan Glover
subject surface form:
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
subject surface form:
Jonathan Drouin
subject surface form:
Jonathan Brewster
subject surface form:
Jonathan Van-Tam