Johnsson
E177564
Johnsson is a Scandinavian surname, most commonly found in Sweden, that is a patronymic variant of the name Johnson.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1562763 — 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: Johnsson Context triple: [Johnson, hasVariant, Johnsson]
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A.
Janus Øssursson
Janus Øssursson is the designer of the modern national flag of the Faroe Islands.
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B.
Jóhan
Jóhan is a given name, primarily used in Faroese and other Nordic contexts, that corresponds to the name Johan.
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C.
Williamsson
Williamsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname, likely meaning "son of William" and used as a variant of the more common form Williamson.
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D.
Ulf Danielsson
Ulf Danielsson is a Swedish theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on string theory and the fundamental nature of the universe.
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E.
Martinsson
Martinsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Martin."
- 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: Johnsson Target entity description: Johnsson is a Scandinavian surname, most commonly found in Sweden, that is a patronymic variant of the name Johnson.
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A.
Janus Øssursson
Janus Øssursson is the designer of the modern national flag of the Faroe Islands.
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B.
Jóhan
Jóhan is a given name, primarily used in Faroese and other Nordic contexts, that corresponds to the name Johan.
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C.
Williamsson
Williamsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname, likely meaning "son of William" and used as a variant of the more common form Williamson.
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D.
Ulf Danielsson
Ulf Danielsson is a Swedish theoretical physicist and cosmologist known for his work on string theory and the fundamental nature of the universe.
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E.
Martinsson
Martinsson is a Scandinavian patronymic surname meaning "son of Martin."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| derivedFromGivenName | John ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Swedish culture ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalMeaning | son of John ⓘ |
| hasGeographicDistribution | Northern Europe ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOrigin |
Scandinavian
ⓘ
Swedish ⓘ |
| hasNameCategory | patronymic family name ⓘ |
| hasNameType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasOriginCountry | Sweden ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfPrevalence | Scandinavia ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Johansson
ⓘ
linked to:
Johnsson
Johnson ⓘ |
| hasUsage | family name ⓘ |
| isMostCommonIn | Sweden ⓘ |
| isPatronymicFormOf | Johnson ⓘ |
| isRelatedToSurname |
Johansson
ⓘ
linked to:
Johnsson
Johnson ⓘ |
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: Johnsson Description of subject: Johnsson is a Scandinavian surname, most commonly found in Sweden, that is a patronymic variant of the name Johnson.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Johnsson
linked to: Johnsson
linked to: Johnsson
linked to: Johnsson
linked to: Johnsson