Iago
E6508
Galician given name
Portuguese given name
Spanish given name
Welsh given name
drama character
fictional character
given name
literary character
male given name
Iago is a given name, notably borne by the treacherous antagonist in Shakespeare’s play "Othello" and used as a variant of James in several languages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iago canonical | 52 |
| Iago (character) | 3 |
| Frank Finlay as Iago | 1 |
| Iago (Shakespeare character) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T90354 — 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: Iago Context triple: [James, hasCognate, Iago]
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A.
Johan
Johan is the given first name of J. Erik Jonsson, an American businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Texas Instruments and served as mayor of Dallas.
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B.
Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea in the early 1st century CE, best known for presiding over the trial of Jesus and authorizing his crucifixion.
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C.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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D.
Koba
Koba was a revolutionary alias used by Joseph Stalin during his early political activities in the Bolshevik movement.
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E.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
- 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: Iago Target entity description: Iago is a given name, notably borne by the treacherous antagonist in Shakespeare’s play "Othello" and used as a variant of James in several languages.
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A.
Johan
Johan is the given first name of J. Erik Jonsson, an American businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Texas Instruments and served as mayor of Dallas.
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B.
Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate was the Roman governor of Judea in the early 1st century CE, best known for presiding over the trial of Jesus and authorizing his crucifixion.
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C.
Julius
Julius is the first given name of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist known as the "father of the atomic bomb."
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D.
Koba
Koba was a revolutionary alias used by Joseph Stalin during his early political activities in the Bolshevik movement.
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E.
Merope
Merope is one of the Pleiades in Greek mythology, a daughter of Atlas and Pleione who became a star in the constellation Taurus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Galician given name
ⓘ
Portuguese given name ⓘ Spanish given name ⓘ Welsh given name ⓘ drama character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ given name ⓘ literary character ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
Othello (1965 film)
ⓘ
surface form:
Othello
|
| associatedWithTheme |
betrayal
ⓘ
evil ⓘ jealousy ⓘ manipulation ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | England ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| etymologicallyRelatedTo |
Jacob
ⓘ
surface form:
Iacobus
Iago self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Iago (Shakespeare character)
|
| firstPerformanceCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn | tragedy ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Emilia (Othello character) ⓘ |
| hasVariantOf |
Jacob
ⓘ
James ⓘ |
| hasVictim |
Cassio (character)
ⓘ
Desdemona (character) ⓘ Othello (character) ⓘ Roderigo (character) ⓘ |
| inspiredTerm | Iago-like villain ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
Galician language
ⓘ
surface form:
Galician
Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
Spanish ⓘ Welsh ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| notableFor | plotting the downfall of Othello ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
deceptive
ⓘ
manipulative ⓘ treacherous ⓘ |
| occupation | ensign ⓘ |
| roleInWork | antagonist ⓘ |
| servesUnder | Othello (character) ⓘ |
| settingOfActions |
Cyprus
ⓘ
Venice ⓘ |
| workForm | play ⓘ |
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: Iago Description of subject: Iago is a given name, notably borne by the treacherous antagonist in Shakespeare’s play "Othello" and used as a variant of James in several languages.
Referenced by (57)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Iago (Shakespeare character)
subject surface form:
Iacomus
this entity surface form:
Frank Finlay as Iago
subject surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Othello
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Cassio
subject surface form:
Roderigo
subject surface form:
Roderigo
subject surface form:
Roderigo
subject surface form:
Roderigo
subject surface form:
Roderigo
subject surface form:
Desdemona
subject surface form:
Desdemona
subject surface form:
Desdemona
subject surface form:
Shane Omen
subject surface form:
Aladdin (1992 film)
subject surface form:
Otello (character)
this entity surface form:
Iago (character)
subject surface form:
Otello (character)
this entity surface form:
Iago (character)
subject surface form:
Otello (character)
this entity surface form:
Iago (character)
subject surface form:
Bianca (Othello)