Beryl
E157983
Beryl is a given name that can be used for people of any gender, historically more common as a female name in English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1370404 — 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: Beryl Context triple: [Barney Ross, givenName, Beryl]
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A.
Sapphire
Sapphire is an American author best known for her novel "Push," which was adapted into the acclaimed film "Precious."
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B.
Opal
Opal is a precious gemstone renowned for its vibrant play-of-color and is especially associated with major deposits in Australia.
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C.
Boric
Boric is the surname of Gabriel Boric, the Chilean politician who became one of the world’s youngest heads of state when he was elected President of Chile.
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D.
Jasper
Jasper is a small city in northwestern Alabama known historically for its coal mining and role in the state's industrial development.
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E.
Amber
Amber is a character from the film "Green Room," a tense horror-thriller about a punk band trapped in a remote venue controlled by violent neo-Nazis.
- 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: Beryl Target entity description: Beryl is a given name that can be used for people of any gender, historically more common as a female name in English-speaking countries.
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A.
Sapphire
Sapphire is an American author best known for her novel "Push," which was adapted into the acclaimed film "Precious."
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B.
Opal
Opal is a precious gemstone renowned for its vibrant play-of-color and is especially associated with major deposits in Australia.
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C.
Boric
Boric is the surname of Gabriel Boric, the Chilean politician who became one of the world’s youngest heads of state when he was elected President of Chile.
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D.
Jasper
Jasper is a small city in northwestern Alabama known historically for its coal mining and role in the state's industrial development.
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E.
Amber
Amber is a character from the film "Green Room," a tense horror-thriller about a punk band trapped in a remote venue controlled by violent neo-Nazis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English given name
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given name ⓘ unisex given name ⓘ |
| category |
English feminine given names
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English unisex given names ⓘ given names derived from gemstones ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom | beryl (mineral) ⓘ |
| etymologyFromLanguage | Greek ⓘ |
| hasGenderUsage |
female
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male ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Beryl Anthony Jr.
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Beryl Bainbridge ⓘ Beryl Booker ⓘ Beryl Bryden ⓘ Beryl Clark ⓘ Beryl Cook ⓘ Beryl Franklin Carroll ⓘ Beryl Markham ⓘ Beryl Penrose ⓘ Beryl Rawson ⓘ Beryl Reid ⓘ Beryl Smalley ⓘ Beryl Vertue ⓘ Beryl de Zoete ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Beryll
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linked to:
Beryl
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| meaning | beryl (a precious stone) ⓘ |
| moreCommonAs | female name ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
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: Beryl Description of subject: Beryl is a given name that can be used for people of any gender, historically more common as a female name in English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.