Jan (Dutch/Polish/Czech, etc.)
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Jan is a common given name in several European languages (such as Dutch, Polish, and Czech), equivalent to the English name John.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan (Dutch/Polish/Czech, etc.) canonical | 1 |
| Jan is a common Dutch given name | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7299984 — 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: Jan (Dutch/Polish/Czech, etc.) Context triple: [John, hasFormInLanguage, Jan (Dutch/Polish/Czech, etc.)]
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A.
JANU
JANU is the Japan Association of National Universities, a representative body that coordinates and advocates for Japan’s national universities.
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B.
JAN
JAN is the three-letter IATA airport code for Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport serving Jackson, Mississippi.
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C.
Janek
Janek is the gruff but good-natured captain of the spaceship Prometheus in Ridley Scott’s 2012 science fiction film.
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D.
Marta (Polish)
Marta is a common Polish female given name, equivalent to Martha, traditionally associated with Christian and European naming traditions.
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E.
Joppe
Joppe is a specific area or water body within the Kagerplassen lake district in the Netherlands, known for recreational boating and watersports.
- 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: Jan (Dutch/Polish/Czech, etc.) Target entity description: Jan is a common given name in several European languages (such as Dutch, Polish, and Czech), equivalent to the English name John.
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A.
JANU
JANU is the Japan Association of National Universities, a representative body that coordinates and advocates for Japan’s national universities.
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B.
JAN
JAN is the three-letter IATA airport code for Jackson–Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport serving Jackson, Mississippi.
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C.
Janek
Janek is the gruff but good-natured captain of the spaceship Prometheus in Ridley Scott’s 2012 science fiction film.
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D.
Marta (Polish)
Marta is a common Polish female given name, equivalent to Martha, traditionally associated with Christian and European naming traditions.
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E.
Joppe
Joppe is a specific area or water body within the Kagerplassen lake district in the Netherlands, known for recreational boating and watersports.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Christian tradition ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Yochanan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| equivalentTo | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutiveForm |
Janek
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Janko NERFINISHED ⓘ Jantje NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageUsage |
Afrikaans
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Albanian ⓘ Basque NERFINISHED ⓘ Breton NERFINISHED ⓘ Catalan NERFINISHED ⓘ Croatian ⓘ Czech ⓘ Danish ⓘ Dutch ⓘ Estonian ⓘ Faroese ⓘ Finnish ⓘ Frisian NERFINISHED ⓘ German ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Icelandic ⓘ Latvian NERFINISHED ⓘ Lithuanian NERFINISHED ⓘ Low German NERFINISHED ⓘ Macedonian ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Occitan NERFINISHED ⓘ Polish ⓘ Romanian NERFINISHED ⓘ Scandinavian languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Serbian NERFINISHED ⓘ Silesian NERFINISHED ⓘ Slovak NERFINISHED ⓘ Slovene NERFINISHED ⓘ Sorbian NERFINISHED ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Giovanni
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ivan NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean NERFINISHED ⓘ Johan NERFINISHED ⓘ Johanus NERFINISHED ⓘ John NERFINISHED ⓘ Juan NERFINISHED ⓘ Ján NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCommonIn |
Central Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Northern Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ Western Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isFormOf | Johannes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isShortFormOf | Johannes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meaning | Yahweh is gracious ⓘ |
| nameDayInCzechia | May 24 ⓘ |
| nameDayInPoland | June 24 ⓘ |
| nameDayInSlovakia | June 24 ⓘ |
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: Jan (Dutch/Polish/Czech, etc.) Description of subject: Jan is a common given name in several European languages (such as Dutch, Polish, and Czech), equivalent to the English name John.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jan is a common Dutch given name