Harold
E9958
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harold canonical | 254 |
| Hal | 1 |
| Hank | 1 |
| Harold from Harold and Maude | 1 |
| Harold from Harold and the Purple Crayon | 1 |
| Harold the Dauntless | 1 |
| Harold, the husband | 1 |
| Haroldo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14928 — 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: Harold Context triple: [Harold Varmus, givenName, Harold]
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A.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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B.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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C.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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D.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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E.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- 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: Harold Target entity description: Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
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A.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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B.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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C.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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D.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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E.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| category |
English masculine given names
ⓘ
Germanic given names ⓘ |
| component1 | here (army) ⓘ |
| component2 | weald (rule, power) ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Hereweald ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Hal
ⓘ
Harold self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hank
Harry ⓘ |
| hasNameDay |
March 20
ⓘ
October 12 ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Hal
ⓘ
Harry ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Harald V of Norway
ⓘ
surface form:
Harald
Harrold ⓘ |
| historicalUsage |
Middle Ages
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglo-Saxon England
medieval England ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Old English ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| meaning |
army ruler
ⓘ
leader of the army ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Harold Bloom
ⓘ
Harold Bluetooth ⓘ Harold Godwinson ⓘ Harold Godwinson ⓘ
surface form:
Harold I of England
Harold Godwinson ⓘ
surface form:
Harold II of England
Harold Lloyd ⓘ Harold Macmillan ⓘ Harold Pinter ⓘ Harold Ramis ⓘ Harold Shipman ⓘ Harold Wilson ⓘ |
| notableFictionalBearer |
Harold Lee from Harold & Kumar
ⓘ
Harold self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Harold from Harold and Maude
Harold self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Harold from Harold and the Purple Crayon
|
| popularityTrend | peaked in early 20th century in the United States ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Hal
ⓘ
Harald V of Norway ⓘ
surface form:
Harald
Harrold ⓘ Harry ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ 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: Harold Description of subject: Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
Referenced by (261)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Harold Briggs
subject surface form:
Harold Norse