Petros
E134945
Petros is a Greek given name meaning "rock" or "stone," best known as the original form of the name Peter.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1158426 — 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: Petros Context triple: [Boutros, derivedFrom, Petros]
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A.
Christos
Christos is the Greek term for “anointed one,” commonly used as the title “Christ” for Jesus in Christian theology.
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B.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
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C.
Didymus
Didymus is another name for the Apostle Thomas, one of Jesus Christ’s twelve original disciples in the New Testament.
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D.
Sebaste
Sebaste was an ancient city in the central highlands of Samaria, refounded and expanded by Herod the Great as a major Hellenistic-Roman urban center.
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E.
Praxeas
Praxeas was an early Christian theologian known for promoting a modalistic view of the Trinity that was later deemed heretical by mainstream church authorities.
- 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: Petros Target entity description: Petros is a Greek given name meaning "rock" or "stone," best known as the original form of the name Peter.
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A.
Christos
Christos is the Greek term for “anointed one,” commonly used as the title “Christ” for Jesus in Christian theology.
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B.
Linos
Linos is an alternative form of the name Linus, often associated with figures from ancient Greek mythology and early Christian tradition.
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C.
Didymus
Didymus is another name for the Apostle Thomas, one of Jesus Christ’s twelve original disciples in the New Testament.
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D.
Sebaste
Sebaste was an ancient city in the central highlands of Samaria, refounded and expanded by Herod the Great as a major Hellenistic-Roman urban center.
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E.
Praxeas
Praxeas was an early Christian theologian known for promoting a modalistic view of the Trinity that was later deemed heretical by mainstream church authorities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Greek masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWithBiblicalText | New Testament ⓘ |
| category |
Greek masculine given names
ⓘ
Masculine given names ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInEnglish | Peter ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | Greek word "petra" ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasCulturalSignificanceIn | Greek culture ⓘ |
| hasDiminutiveForm | Petros (short forms vary by dialect) ⓘ |
| hasVariantTransliteration |
Pétros
ⓘ
linked to:
Petros
|
| isTheophoric | no ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Greek ⓘ |
| meaning |
rock
ⓘ
stone ⓘ |
| nameDayObservedIn | Greek Orthodox tradition ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| notableAssociation | Apostle Peter ⓘ |
| originalFormOf | Peter ⓘ |
| originPeriod | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Pedro
ⓘ
Peter ⓘ Pierre ⓘ Pietro ⓘ |
| religiousAssociation | Christianity ⓘ |
| script | Greek alphabet ⓘ |
| semanticField |
stability
ⓘ
strength ⓘ |
| transliterationStandard | Petros (ISO basic Latin transliteration) ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Cyprus
ⓘ
Greece ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Greek ⓘ |
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: Petros Description of subject: Petros is a Greek given name meaning "rock" or "stone," best known as the original form of the name Peter.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Petros