Mikolaj
E161869
Mikołaj is a given name of Slavic origin that corresponds to the English name Nicholas.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1355587 — 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: Mikolaj Context triple: [Nicholas, hasVariantForm, Mikolaj]
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A.
Michał
Michał is a Polish given name commonly used for males, equivalent to the English name Michael.
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B.
Stanislaw
Stanislaw is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, most notably borne by the Polish-American mathematician Stanislaw Ulam.
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C.
Jan Szczepański
Jan Szczepański was a Polish mountaineer known for participating in pioneering high-altitude ascents in the Andes.
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D.
Wilgelm Vitgeft
Wilgelm Vitgeft was a Russian Imperial Navy admiral who led the Pacific Squadron during the Russo-Japanese War and was killed while commanding at the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
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E.
Paweł
Paweł is a common Polish given name, equivalent to the English name Paul.
- 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: Mikolaj Target entity description: Mikołaj is a given name of Slavic origin that corresponds to the English name Nicholas.
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A.
Michał
Michał is a Polish given name commonly used for males, equivalent to the English name Michael.
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B.
Stanislaw
Stanislaw is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, most notably borne by the Polish-American mathematician Stanislaw Ulam.
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C.
Jan Szczepański
Jan Szczepański was a Polish mountaineer known for participating in pioneering high-altitude ascents in the Andes.
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D.
Wilgelm Vitgeft
Wilgelm Vitgeft was a Russian Imperial Navy admiral who led the Pacific Squadron during the Russo-Japanese War and was killed while commanding at the Battle of the Yellow Sea.
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E.
Paweł
Paweł is a common Polish given name, equivalent to the English name Paul.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Saint Nicholas
ⓘ
linked to:
Saint Nicholas of Myra
|
| correspondsTo | Nicholas ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Greek name Nikolaos ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInCzech | Mikuláš ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInEnglish | Nicholas ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInFrench |
Nicolas
ⓘ
linked to:
Nicholas
|
| equivalentNameInGerman | Nikolaus ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInHungarian | Miklós ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInItalian | Nicola ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInRussian |
Nikolai
ⓘ
linked to:
Nikolay
|
| equivalentNameInSlovak | Mikuláš ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInSpanish | Nicolás ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Polish masculine given names
ⓘ
Slavic masculine given names ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | ł ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Polish ⓘ |
| hasMeaningRelatedTo | victory of the people ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Slavic ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Mikolaj ⓘ |
| nameDayInPoland | December 6 ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Poland ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Mikolaj Description of subject: Mikołaj is a given name of Slavic origin that corresponds to the English name Nicholas.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.