Jane
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Jane is a feminine given name of English origin that has been widely used in many English-speaking countries for centuries.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T242965 — 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: Jane Context triple: [Jane Addams, givenName, Jane]
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A.
Emma
Emma is a common feminine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking and many other countries.
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B.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential former First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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C.
Jamie
Jamie is a given name commonly used as a diminutive or variant of James, and is borne by people of all genders in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
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E.
Sara
Sara is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess," historically borne by notable figures including Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt, the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- 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: Jane Target entity description: Jane is a feminine given name of English origin that has been widely used in many English-speaking countries for centuries.
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A.
Emma
Emma is a common feminine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking and many other countries.
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B.
Anna
Anna is the given first name of Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential former First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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C.
Jamie
Jamie is a given name commonly used as a diminutive or variant of James, and is borne by people of all genders in English-speaking countries.
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D.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
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E.
Sara
Sara is a feminine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess," historically borne by notable figures including Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt, the mother of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasCommonDiminutive |
Jane
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Janey
Janie ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRoot |
Jeanne
ⓘ
surface form:
Jehanne
Joan ⓘ John ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInSomeTraditions |
24 June
ⓘ
27 December ⓘ |
| hasUsage | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| isCognateWith |
Giovanna
ⓘ
Ivana ⓘ Jean ⓘ Jeanne ⓘ Juana ⓘ |
| isVariantOf |
Jeanne
ⓘ
surface form:
Jehanne
Joan ⓘ |
| meaning | Yahweh is gracious ⓘ |
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: Jane Description of subject: Jane is a feminine given name of English origin that has been widely used in many English-speaking countries for centuries.
Referenced by (156)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dame Minna Jane Ollie Croft Young
subject surface form:
Jane Pierce
subject surface form:
Jane Margolis