Alexander

E596604

surname

Alexander is a common surname of Greek origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures across history and culture.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Alexander canonical	11

Statements (42)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	surname ⓘ
derivedFrom	Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexandros) NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCategory	English-language surnames ⓘ Greek-language surnames ⓘ patronymic surnames ⓘ surnames from given names ⓘ
hasEtymologicalOrigin	Ancient Greek given name Alexandros ⓘ
hasLanguageOfOrigin	Greek ⓘ
hasMeaning	defender of men ⓘ protector of people ⓘ
hasNotableBearer	Alexander Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ Archie Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ Cecil Frances Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ Grover Cleveland Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis NERFINISHED ⓘ Jane Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ Jason Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ Lloyd Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ Will Alexander NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasVariant	Aleksander NERFINISHED ⓘ Aleksandr NERFINISHED ⓘ Alexandre NERFINISHED ⓘ Alexandros NERFINISHED ⓘ Iskander NERFINISHED ⓘ
isAlsoUsedAs	given name ⓘ
isPatronymicFrom	given name Alexander ⓘ
usedInCountry	Australia ⓘ Canada ⓘ Germany ⓘ Greece NERFINISHED ⓘ Russia ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
usedInLanguage	Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Greek ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Russian ⓘ Scandinavian languages ⓘ Spanish ⓘ

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: Alexander
Description of subject: Alexander is a common surname of Greek origin that has been borne by numerous notable figures across history and culture.

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Pete → familyName → Alexander ⓘ

subject surface form: Grover Cleveland Alexander

Johnny Ace → familyName → Alexander ⓘ

Sarah Wallace Alexander Perry → hasMaidenName → Alexander ⓘ

Alexander family heirs → hasFamilyName → Alexander ⓘ

Shana Alexander → familyName → Alexander ⓘ

Kathryn Alexander → familyName → Alexander ⓘ

subject surface form: Lamar Alexander

David Alexander → hasLastName → Alexander ⓘ

Danny Alexander → familyName → Alexander ⓘ

Graham Alexander → familyName → Alexander ⓘ

Thomas Bladen Alexander → family name → Alexander ⓘ

Lincoln Alexander → familyName → Alexander ⓘ