Ko
E931374
Ko is a Japanese given-name element commonly used in female names, often carrying meanings like “child” depending on the kanji used.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11536184 — 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: Ko Context triple: [Yoko, nameElement, Ko]
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A.
Koja
Koja is a coastal district in North Jakarta, Indonesia, known for its dense urban neighborhoods and proximity to the city’s port and industrial areas.
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B.
Kok
Kok is a Dutch surname most notably borne by Wim Kok, a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
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C.
Kö
Kö is the colloquial name for Königsallee, Düsseldorf’s famous luxury shopping boulevard known for its upscale boutiques and central canal.
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D.
Ku
Ku is a principal Hawaiian god associated with war, politics, and prosperity, widely venerated in traditional Native Hawaiian religion.
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E.
Koo
Koo is a Korean family name associated with several prominent business and cultural figures in South Korea.
- 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: Ko Target entity description: Ko is a Japanese given-name element commonly used in female names, often carrying meanings like “child” depending on the kanji used.
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A.
Koja
Koja is a coastal district in North Jakarta, Indonesia, known for its dense urban neighborhoods and proximity to the city’s port and industrial areas.
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B.
Kok
Kok is a Dutch surname most notably borne by Wim Kok, a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
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C.
Kö
Kö is the colloquial name for Königsallee, Düsseldorf’s famous luxury shopping boulevard known for its upscale boutiques and central canal.
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D.
Ku
Ku is a principal Hawaiian god associated with war, politics, and prosperity, widely venerated in traditional Native Hawaiian religion.
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E.
Koo
Koo is a Korean family name associated with several prominent business and cultural figures in South Korea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Japanese given name element
ⓘ
linguistic unit ⓘ name element ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | traditional Japanese female names ⓘ |
| formsPartOf | Japanese given names ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | child ⓘ |
| hasRomanization | ko ⓘ |
| hasTypicalKanji | 子 ⓘ |
| hasUsageTrend | more common in earlier 20th century Japanese female names ⓘ |
| isCommonIn | Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isComponentOf | compound Japanese given names ⓘ |
| isMorphemeType | name suffix ⓘ |
| isWrittenIn |
hiragana
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kanji ⓘ katakana ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Japanese ⓘ |
| meaningDependsOn | kanji used ⓘ |
| occursAt | end of many Japanese female names ⓘ |
| positionInName | suffix ⓘ |
| scriptType |
logographic when written in kanji
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syllabic when written in kana ⓘ |
| semanticField | child-related meanings ⓘ |
| typicalGenderAssociation | female ⓘ |
| usedAs | diminutive element in names ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Japanese female given names
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Japanese language ⓘ |
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: Ko Description of subject: Ko is a Japanese given-name element commonly used in female names, often carrying meanings like “child” depending on the kanji used.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kō