James the Less
E133544
James the Less is a figure in the New Testament traditionally regarded as one of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles, often distinguished from James the son of Zebedee.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James the Less canonical | 10 |
| James the Younger | 4 |
| James the Minor | 2 |
| James the Lesser | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1164170 — 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: James the Less Context triple: [Apostle James the Less, name, James the Less]
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A.
Malcolm IV of Scotland
Malcolm IV of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots, known as "the Maiden," who ruled from 1153 to 1165 and continued the consolidation of royal authority begun by his grandfather David I.
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B.
James V of Scotland
James V of Scotland was a 16th-century King of Scots from the House of Stuart and the father of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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C.
Alexander II of Scotland
Alexander II of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots (reigning from 1214 to 1249) known for consolidating royal authority, resolving conflicts with England, and expanding Scottish influence into the Western Isles.
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D.
James II of Scotland
James II of Scotland was a 15th-century king whose turbulent reign was marked by efforts to curb the power of the great nobles and consolidate royal authority before his death in 1460.
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E.
Donald III of Scotland
Donald III of Scotland was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose brief and contested reign followed that of his brother Malcolm III amid dynastic struggles for the Scottish throne.
- 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: James the Less Target entity description: James the Less is a figure in the New Testament traditionally regarded as one of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles, often distinguished from James the son of Zebedee.
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A.
Malcolm IV of Scotland
Malcolm IV of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots, known as "the Maiden," who ruled from 1153 to 1165 and continued the consolidation of royal authority begun by his grandfather David I.
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B.
James V of Scotland
James V of Scotland was a 16th-century King of Scots from the House of Stuart and the father of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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C.
Alexander II of Scotland
Alexander II of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots (reigning from 1214 to 1249) known for consolidating royal authority, resolving conflicts with England, and expanding Scottish influence into the Western Isles.
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D.
James II of Scotland
James II of Scotland was a 15th-century king whose turbulent reign was marked by efforts to curb the power of the great nobles and consolidate royal authority before his death in 1460.
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E.
Donald III of Scotland
Donald III of Scotland was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose brief and contested reign followed that of his brother Malcolm III amid dynastic struggles for the Scottish throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: James the Less Description of subject: James the Less is a figure in the New Testament traditionally regarded as one of Jesus Christ’s twelve apostles, often distinguished from James the son of Zebedee.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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the Less
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subject linked to:
the Less
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subject linked to:
the Younger
linked to: James the Less
linked to: James the Less