Ilija
E276415
Ilija is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in countries such as Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilija canonical | 4 |
| Ilija (Cyrillic: Илија) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2510177 — 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: Ilija Context triple: [Ilija Trojanow, givenName, Ilija]
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A.
Mihajlo
Mihajlo is the Serbian given name of Michael I. Pupin, the renowned Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and Columbia University professor.
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B.
Saša
Saša is a given name commonly used in Slavic countries, often as a diminutive of Aleksandar or Aleksandra.
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C.
Neša
Neša is the ancient name of the city of Kültepe, a major Bronze Age trading center and early Hittite capital in central Anatolia.
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D.
Petar
Petar is a given name commonly used in Slavic countries, equivalent to the English name Peter.
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E.
Preslav
Preslav is an ancient Bulgarian city that served as a major medieval political and cultural capital of the First Bulgarian Empire and a key center of Slavic literacy and Orthodox Christianity.
- 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: Ilija Target entity description: Ilija is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in countries such as Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia.
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A.
Mihajlo
Mihajlo is the Serbian given name of Michael I. Pupin, the renowned Serbian-American physicist, inventor, and Columbia University professor.
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B.
Saša
Saša is a given name commonly used in Slavic countries, often as a diminutive of Aleksandar or Aleksandra.
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C.
Neša
Neša is the ancient name of the city of Kültepe, a major Bronze Age trading center and early Hittite capital in central Anatolia.
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D.
Petar
Petar is a given name commonly used in Slavic countries, equivalent to the English name Peter.
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E.
Preslav
Preslav is an ancient Bulgarian city that served as a major medieval political and cultural capital of the First Bulgarian Empire and a key center of Slavic literacy and Orthodox Christianity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Slavic given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| associatedTradition |
Eastern Orthodoxy
ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
|
| commonInLanguage |
Bulgarian
ⓘ
Macedonian ⓘ Serbian ⓘ |
| equivalentName |
Elijah
ⓘ
Ilia ⓘ Ilya ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Hebrew name Eliyahu ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasUsageInCountry |
Bulgaria
ⓘ
North Macedonia ⓘ Serbia ⓘ |
| hasUsageInRegion | Balkans ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Ilia
ⓘ
Ilija (Cyrillic: Илија) ⓘ
linked to:
Ilija
Iliya ⓘ
linked to:
Ilia
|
| languageOfOrigin | Slavic languages ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
Bulgarian masculine given names
ⓘ
Macedonian masculine given names ⓘ Serbian masculine given names ⓘ Slavic masculine given names ⓘ |
| nameDayTradition | Slavic cultures ⓘ |
| nameOriginType | theophoric name ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Cyrillic
ⓘ
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: Ilija Description of subject: Ilija is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, commonly used in countries such as Bulgaria, Serbia, and North Macedonia.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ilija