James
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James is a prominent early Christian figure, traditionally identified as James the brother of Jesus and a leader in the Jerusalem church.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1981963 — 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: James Context triple: [1 Corinthians 15, mentionsFigure, James]
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A.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
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C.
John
John is the given name of the renowned British mathematician John H. Conway, known for his work in group theory, number theory, and the invention of the Game of Life.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John Nance Garner, who served as the 32nd vice president of the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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E.
John
John is the given first name of J. Michael Bishop, the American immunologist and Nobel Prize–winning scientist known for his work on oncogenes.
- 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: James Target entity description: James is a prominent early Christian figure, traditionally identified as James the brother of Jesus and a leader in the Jerusalem church.
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A.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Bardeen, the American physicist who uniquely won the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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C.
John
John is the given name of the 19th-century British philosopher and political economist John Stuart Mill, a key figure in liberal thought and utilitarianism.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John Hancock, a prominent American statesman and patriot best known for his large signature on the United States Declaration of Independence.
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E.
John
John is the formal first name of Johnny Most, the famed American sports broadcaster known for his passionate radio commentary of Boston Celtics basketball games.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Testament person
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ early Christian leader ⓘ saint ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
James of Jerusalem
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James the Just ⓘ James the brother of Jesus ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| deathCause | martyrdom (traditional) ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| describedAs | prominent early Christian figure ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
brother of Jesus
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relative of Jesus ⓘ son of Mary ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the Epistle of James
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influence on early Christian practice ⓘ leadership in the Jerusalem church ⓘ |
| language |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Acts of the Apostles
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Epistle to the Galatians ⓘ First Epistle to the Corinthians ⓘ New Testament ⓘ |
| name | James ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head of the Jerusalem church
ⓘ
leader of the Jerusalem Christian community ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousMovement | Jewish Christianity ⓘ |
| role |
leader of the Jerusalem church
ⓘ
pillar of the early church ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century ⓘ |
| traditionalAuthorOf | Epistle of James ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
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Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Lutheran Churches ⓘ
linked to:
European Lutheran churches
Oriental Orthodox Churches ⓘ
linked to:
Oriental Orthodoxy
Roman Catholic Church ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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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: James Description of subject: James is a prominent early Christian figure, traditionally identified as James the brother of Jesus and a leader in the Jerusalem church.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.