Johanna
E103810
Johanna is the given name of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author best known for creating the classic children's novel "Heidi."
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T735877 — 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: Johanna Context triple: [Johanna Spyri, givenName, Johanna]
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A.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
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B.
Luisa
Luisa is a feminine given name used in various languages, particularly Romance languages, as a form of the name Louise.
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C.
Franziska
Franziska is a feminine given name of German origin, closely related to and cognate with the name Frances.
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D.
Amalia
Amalia is the Dutch crown princess, heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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E.
Valeria
Valeria was a Roman imperial princess and later empress, best known as the daughter of Emperor Diocletian and for her tragic fate during the political turmoil of the Tetrarchy.
- 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: Johanna Target entity description: Johanna is the given name of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author best known for creating the classic children's novel "Heidi."
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A.
Joanna
Joanna is the first name of Joanna Newsom, an American harpist, singer-songwriter, and musician known for her intricate compositions and distinctive vocal style.
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B.
Luisa
Luisa is a feminine given name used in various languages, particularly Romance languages, as a form of the name Louise.
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C.
Franziska
Franziska is a feminine given name of German origin, closely related to and cognate with the name Frances.
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D.
Amalia
Amalia is the Dutch crown princess, heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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E.
Valeria
Valeria was a Roman imperial princess and later empress, best known as the daughter of Emperor Diocletian and for her tragic fate during the political turmoil of the Tetrarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| citizenship | Swiss Confederation ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Swiss ⓘ |
| familyName | Spyri ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children's fiction
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| genre | children's literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Johanna ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Johanna ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Spyri ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| nationality | Swiss ⓘ |
| notableFor |
creating the character Heidi
ⓘ
writing the classic children's novel Heidi ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Heidi
ⓘ
Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning ⓘ
linked to:
Heidi
|
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hirzel, Switzerland ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Zürich, Switzerland
ⓘ
linked to:
Zurich
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| residence |
Zürich, Switzerland
ⓘ
linked to:
Zurich
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| workLocation | Switzerland ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | German ⓘ |
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: Johanna Description of subject: Johanna is the given name of Johanna Spyri, the Swiss author best known for creating the classic children's novel "Heidi."
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.