Reed
E80501
Reed is a given name and surname of English and Scottish origin, commonly associated with meanings related to red hair or a person living near reeds.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T640561 — 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: Reed Context triple: [Reid, hasVariant, Reed]
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A.
Reynolds
Reynolds was a prominent Spanish professional cycling team, best known as the early-career squad of multiple Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain and later evolving into the Banesto team.
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B.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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C.
Reva
Reva is an alternative name for the Narmada River, one of central India’s major and holiest rivers.
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D.
Greenleaf
Greenleaf is the middle name of the 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.
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E.
Brin
Brin is a surname most prominently associated with Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and a leading figure in the technology industry.
- 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: Reed Target entity description: Reed is a given name and surname of English and Scottish origin, commonly associated with meanings related to red hair or a person living near reeds.
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A.
Reynolds
Reynolds was a prominent Spanish professional cycling team, best known as the early-career squad of multiple Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain and later evolving into the Banesto team.
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B.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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C.
Reva
Reva is an alternative name for the Narmada River, one of central India’s major and holiest rivers.
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D.
Greenleaf
Greenleaf is the middle name of the 19th-century American Quaker poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier.
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E.
Brin
Brin is a surname most prominently associated with Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and a leading figure in the technology industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English masculine given name
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English-language surname ⓘ Scottish surname ⓘ given name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
Reade
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Reid ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English given names
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English surnames ⓘ Scottish surnames ⓘ surnames from nicknames ⓘ toponymic surnames ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalMeaning |
person living near reeds
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red-haired person ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| hasMeaningRelatedTo |
red
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reeds ⓘ |
| hasNameType |
descriptive surname
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topographic surname ⓘ |
| hasTypicalGender | male ⓘ |
| hasUsage |
family name
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first name ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Read
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Redd ⓘ Reede ⓘ Reid ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom | Middle English rede ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | unisex given name ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Reed Description of subject: Reed is a given name and surname of English and Scottish origin, commonly associated with meanings related to red hair or a person living near reeds.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Redd
subject surface form:
Wilmot Reed Hastings
Stanley Forman Reed (as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States)
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familyName
→
Reed
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subject surface form:
Stanley Forman Reed
subject surface form:
Andre Reed
subject surface form:
Stanley Reed
subject surface form:
Ishmael Reed
subject surface form:
Teddy Reed
subject surface form:
Walter Reed