Sigmund
E190266
Sigmund is the given name of Sigmund Freud, the pioneering Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sigmund canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1668144 — 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: Sigmund Context triple: [Sigmund Freud, givenName, Sigmund]
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A.
Ernst
Ernst is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in German-speaking and Scandinavian countries.
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B.
Eugen
Eugen is the given first name of the influential German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht.
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C.
Oskar
Oskar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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D.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor is the given name of Emil Theodor Kocher, a Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in thyroid surgery.
- 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: Sigmund Target entity description: Sigmund is the given name of Sigmund Freud, the pioneering Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis.
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A.
Ernst
Ernst is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in German-speaking and Scandinavian countries.
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B.
Eugen
Eugen is the given first name of the influential German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht.
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C.
Oskar
Oskar is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in various European countries.
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D.
Theodor
Theodor "Ted" Nelson is an American pioneer of information technology best known for coining the term "hypertext" and envisioning global hyperlinked document systems.
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E.
Theodor
Theodor is the given name of Emil Theodor Kocher, a Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in thyroid surgery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Germanic naming traditions ⓘ |
| componentMeaning |
"mund" means protection
ⓘ
"sig" means victory ⓘ |
| etymologicalMeaning | victorious protector ⓘ |
| givenNameOf | Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
| hasCognate |
Sigmundr
ⓘ
Sigmundur ⓘ
linked to:
Sigmundr
|
| hasComponent |
mund
ⓘ
sig ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRegion |
Central Europe
ⓘ
German-speaking countries ⓘ
linked to:
German-speaking Europe
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUsage | medieval Germanic societies ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Old High German ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfUse |
German
ⓘ
Scandinavian languages ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInSomeCountries | September 7 ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerOccupation |
neurologist
ⓘ
psychoanalyst ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Sig ⓘ |
| hasUsageType | personal name ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
Siegmund
ⓘ
linked to:
Siegfried
Sigismund ⓘ |
| isRelatedName |
Sigfryd
ⓘ
linked to:
Sigurd
Zygmunt ⓘ |
| usedBy | Sigmund Freud ⓘ |
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: Sigmund Description of subject: Sigmund is the given name of Sigmund Freud, the pioneering Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.