Max
E11109
Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
All labels observed (5)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T91640 — 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: Max Context triple: [Max Hollein, givenName, Max]
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A.
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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B.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Tim the Beaver
Tim the Beaver is the official mascot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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D.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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E.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
- 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: Max Target entity description: Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
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A.
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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B.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Tim the Beaver
Tim the Beaver is the official mascot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, symbolizing the school’s emphasis on engineering, ingenuity, and industriousness.
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D.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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E.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
hypocorism ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| canBeSurname | true ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutiveForm |
Maxie
ⓘ
linked to:
Max
Maxy ⓘ
linked to:
Max
|
| hasVariant |
Maxence
ⓘ
Maximilian ⓘ Maximus ⓘ Maxwell ⓘ |
| isUsedAs |
first name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
English masculine given name
ⓘ
German masculine given name ⓘ |
| nameDayRegion | varies by country ⓘ |
| nameLength | 3 letters ⓘ |
| popularityType | common name ⓘ |
| relatedToName |
Maxim
ⓘ
linked to:
André
Maximiliano ⓘ
linked to:
Maximilian I of Mexico
Maximo ⓘ |
| shortFormOf |
Maximilian
ⓘ
Maxwell ⓘ |
| typicalUsageRegion |
Austria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
German ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Max Description of subject: Max is a masculine given name commonly used in German- and English-speaking countries, often as a short form of Maximilian or Maxwell.
Referenced by (94)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Max
linked to: Max
linked to: Max
linked to: Max