Jacob

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Jacob is a common surname of Hebrew origin, widely used across many cultures and languages.

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Label Occurrences
Jacob canonical 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf family name
surname
hasAnglicisationOf Yaakov (Hebrew given name) NERFINISHED
hasCategory Biblical surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames of Hebrew origin
hasEtymologicalRoot Yaʿaqov NERFINISHED
hasEtymologicalRootLanguage Biblical Hebrew
hasEtymologyNote originates from a theophoric or personal name in ancient Israel
hasFrequencyNote common surname in many Western countries
hasGenderAssociation gender-neutral (as a surname)
hasHistoricalUsage since medieval times in Europe
hasLanguageOfOrigin Hebrew
hasLinguisticType patronymic family name
hasMeaning "holder of the heel"
"supplanter"
hasNotableBearerType artists
athletes
politicians
scientists
writers
hasOrthographicFeature capitalized in Latin script
hasPhoneticVariation pronunciation varies by language and region
hasScriptOfOrigin Hebrew alphabet
hasTransliteration Yaacov NERFINISHED
Yaakov NERFINISHED
hasUsageNote can appear as part of compound surnames
hasVariant Jacobi NERFINISHED
Jacobs NERFINISHED
Jacoby NERFINISHED
Jacques (surname) NERFINISHED
Jakob NERFINISHED
James (surname) NERFINISHED
isConnectedToBiblicalFigure Jacob (patriarch in the Hebrew Bible) NERFINISHED
isConnectedToReligion Christianity NERFINISHED
Judaism NERFINISHED
isDerivedFrom the given name Jacob
isRelatedToGivenName Jacob (given name)
isUsedAs Christian surname
Jewish surname
isUsedInCulture Christian communities
Dutch-speaking countries
English-speaking countries
French-speaking countries
German-speaking countries
Jewish culture
Scandinavian countries
diaspora communities

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: Jacob
Description of subject: Jacob is a common surname of Hebrew origin, widely used across many cultures and languages.

Referenced by (1)

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

Irène Jacob familyName Jacob