Ivan
E157814
Ivan is a common Slavic male given name widely used in Russia and other Eastern European countries, equivalent to "John" in English.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ivan canonical | 140 |
| Iván | 8 |
| Ivan Antonovich | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T612691 — 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: Ivan Context triple: [Ivan Susloparov, givenName, Ivan]
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A.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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B.
Pyotr
Pyotr is the Russian given name of Peter Kropotkin, the influential 19th-century anarchist philosopher, geographer, and revolutionary.
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C.
Viktor
Viktor is the given name of Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy and wrote "Man’s Search for Meaning."
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D.
Gavril
Gavril is a masculine given name, commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European cultures, that derives from the Hebrew name Gabriel.
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E.
Andrei
Andrei is a masculine given name commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European countries, equivalent to the English name Andrew.
- 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: Ivan Target entity description: Ivan is a common Slavic male given name widely used in Russia and other Eastern European countries, equivalent to "John" in English.
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A.
Vasily
Vasily is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in Russian-speaking countries.
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B.
Pyotr
Pyotr is the Russian given name of Peter Kropotkin, the influential 19th-century anarchist philosopher, geographer, and revolutionary.
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C.
Viktor
Viktor is the given name of Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor who founded logotherapy and wrote "Man’s Search for Meaning."
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D.
Gavril
Gavril is a masculine given name, commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European cultures, that derives from the Hebrew name Gabriel.
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E.
Andrei
Andrei is a masculine given name commonly used in Slavic and Eastern European countries, equivalent to the English name Andrew.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Slavic given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| category |
Bulgarian masculine given names
ⓘ
Croatian masculine given names ⓘ Russian masculine given names ⓘ Serbian masculine given names ⓘ Slavic masculine given names ⓘ |
| etymologicallyDerivedFrom |
Iōánnēs
ⓘ
linked to:
Ioan
Yohanan ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCognate |
Giovanni
ⓘ
Ian ⓘ Ioan ⓘ Ioannis ⓘ Jan ⓘ Jean ⓘ Johan ⓘ Johann ⓘ John ⓘ Juan ⓘ Ján ⓘ
linked to:
János
|
| hasLanguageOrigin |
Old Church Slavonic
ⓘ
linked to:
Church Slavonic
Slavic languages ⓘ |
| isEquivalentTo | John ⓘ |
| meaning | God is gracious ⓘ |
| nameDayObservedIn |
Bulgaria
ⓘ
Croatia ⓘ Slovakia ⓘ |
| script |
Cyrillic
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Belarus
ⓘ
Bosnia and Herzegovina ⓘ Bulgaria ⓘ Croatia ⓘ Czech Republic ⓘ Montenegro ⓘ North Macedonia ⓘ Russia ⓘ Serbia ⓘ Slovakia ⓘ Slovenia ⓘ Ukraine ⓘ |
| usedInCulture |
Bulgarian culture
ⓘ
Croatian culture ⓘ Russian culture ⓘ Serbian culture ⓘ Ukrainian culture ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Eastern Europe
ⓘ
Southeastern Europe ⓘ
linked to:
Balkans
|
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: Ivan Description of subject: Ivan is a common Slavic male given name widely used in Russia and other Eastern European countries, equivalent to "John" in English.
Referenced by (149)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.