August
E154588
Dutch masculine given name
German masculine given name
Latin masculine given name
Polish masculine given name
Scandinavian masculine given name
classical philologist
given name
masculine given name
person
August is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in Germanic and other European languages and associated with figures such as the classical philologist Friedrich August Wolf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| August canonical | 115 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1345861 — 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: August Context triple: [Friedrich August Wolf, givenName, August]
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A.
July
July is the seventh month of the year, typically associated with mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere and named after Julius Caesar.
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B.
June
June is an early-summer month in the Northern Hemisphere often associated with favorable weather for outdoor activities and mountaineering.
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C.
September
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, marking the transition from summer to autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and from winter to spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
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D.
October
October is the tenth month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, typically associated with mid-autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
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E.
May
May is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
- 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: August Target entity description: August is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in Germanic and other European languages and associated with figures such as the classical philologist Friedrich August Wolf.
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A.
July
July is the seventh month of the year, typically associated with mid-summer in the Northern Hemisphere and named after Julius Caesar.
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B.
June
June is an early-summer month in the Northern Hemisphere often associated with favorable weather for outdoor activities and mountaineering.
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C.
September
September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, marking the transition from summer to autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and from winter to spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
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D.
October
October is the tenth month of the year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars, typically associated with mid-autumn in the Northern Hemisphere.
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E.
May
May is a common English surname borne by numerous individuals, including former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch masculine given name
ⓘ
German masculine given name ⓘ Latin masculine given name ⓘ Polish masculine given name ⓘ Scandinavian masculine given name ⓘ classical philologist ⓘ given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Friedrich August Wolf ⓘ |
| cognateWith | Augustus ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Augustus ⓘ |
| givenName | August ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
great
ⓘ
magnificent ⓘ venerable ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInCountry |
Finland
ⓘ
Norway ⓘ Poland ⓘ Sweden ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Latin language
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin
|
| relatedName |
Augustin
ⓘ
Augustine ⓘ
linked to:
Augustine of Hippo
Augusto ⓘ Augustus ⓘ Augustus (given name) ⓘ
linked to:
Augustus
|
| shortFormOf | Augustus ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Danish
ⓘ
Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ German ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Polish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
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: August Description of subject: August is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in Germanic and other European languages and associated with figures such as the classical philologist Friedrich August Wolf.
Referenced by (115)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.