Valter
E174146
Valter is a masculine given name used in various European countries, generally equivalent to the English name Walter.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Valter canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1512890 — 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: Valter Context triple: [Walter, variantForm, Valter]
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A.
Wido
Wido is a given name that functions as a variant form of the name Guido, used in various European languages.
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B.
Paolo
Paolo is the Italian form of the given name Paul, commonly used in Italy and other Italian-speaking communities.
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C.
Wallach
Wallach is a surname and given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with Central and Eastern Europe and borne by various notable figures in arts, science, and public life.
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D.
Victor Contamin
Victor Contamin was a 19th-century French structural engineer renowned for his pioneering work with iron and glass architecture, notably in major exhibition halls.
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E.
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."
- 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: Valter Target entity description: Valter is a masculine given name used in various European countries, generally equivalent to the English name Walter.
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A.
Wido
Wido is a given name that functions as a variant form of the name Guido, used in various European languages.
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B.
Paolo
Paolo is the Italian form of the given name Paul, commonly used in Italy and other Italian-speaking communities.
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C.
Wallach
Wallach is a surname and given name of Germanic origin, historically associated with Central and Eastern Europe and borne by various notable figures in arts, science, and public life.
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D.
Victor Contamin
Victor Contamin was a 19th-century French structural engineer renowned for his pioneering work with iron and glass architecture, notably in major exhibition halls.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| commonUsageRegion | Europe ⓘ |
| equivalentTo | Walter ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Germanic name Walter ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Valtinho
ⓘ
Valtė ⓘ |
| hasLanguageUsage |
Albanian
ⓘ
Bosnian ⓘ Croatian ⓘ Danish ⓘ Estonian ⓘ Finnish ⓘ Italian ⓘ Latvian ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ
linked to:
Portuguese language
Serbian ⓘ Slovenian ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Val ⓘ |
| nameDayRegion |
Finland
ⓘ
Sweden ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| nameVariantOf | Walter ⓘ |
| relatedName | Walter ⓘ |
| semanticComponents |
army
ⓘ
rule ⓘ |
| typicalNameCategory | European masculine given name ⓘ |
| 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: Valter Description of subject: Valter is a masculine given name used in various European countries, generally equivalent to the English name Walter.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.