Alois Jirásek
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Alois Jirásek was a prominent Czech writer and playwright best known for his historical novels that helped shape modern Czech national identity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alois Jirásek canonical | 9 |
| Jirásek | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3461125 — 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: Alois Jirásek Context triple: [Czech language, hasNotableAuthor, Alois Jirásek]
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A.
Vitezslav Lavicka
Vitezslav Lavicka is a Czech football manager and former player best known for coaching clubs such as Sydney FC and Sparta Prague.
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B.
František Moravec
František Moravec was a Czechoslovak military intelligence officer and key resistance leader during World War II, best known for organizing covert operations against Nazi Germany.
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C.
Ladislav Novomeský
Ladislav Novomeský was a Slovak poet, journalist, and communist politician who became a prominent cultural figure and anti-fascist activist in 20th-century Slovakia.
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D.
František Kučera
František Kučera is a former Czech ice hockey defenceman known for his international success with the Czech national team and a lengthy professional career in Europe and the NHL.
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E.
Jiří Dienstbier
Jiří Dienstbier was a prominent Czech journalist, dissident, and post-communist foreign minister who played a key role in the country’s democratic transition.
- 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: Alois Jirásek Target entity description: Alois Jirásek was a prominent Czech writer and playwright best known for his historical novels that helped shape modern Czech national identity.
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A.
Vitezslav Lavicka
Vitezslav Lavicka is a Czech football manager and former player best known for coaching clubs such as Sydney FC and Sparta Prague.
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B.
František Moravec
František Moravec was a Czechoslovak military intelligence officer and key resistance leader during World War II, best known for organizing covert operations against Nazi Germany.
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C.
Ladislav Novomeský
Ladislav Novomeský was a Slovak poet, journalist, and communist politician who became a prominent cultural figure and anti-fascist activist in 20th-century Slovakia.
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D.
František Kučera
František Kučera is a former Czech ice hockey defenceman known for his international success with the Czech national team and a lengthy professional career in Europe and the NHL.
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E.
Jiří Dienstbier
Jiří Dienstbier was a prominent Czech journalist, dissident, and post-communist foreign minister who played a key role in the country’s democratic transition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech writer
ⓘ
person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| awardReceived | honorary doctorate from Charles University ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Vyšehrad Cemetery ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
Austrian Empire
ⓘ
linked to:
Austrian Habsburg Monarchy
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Austria-Hungary
ⓘ
linked to:
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1851-08-23 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1930-03-12 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | Czech literary history ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Charles University
ⓘ
linked to:
Charles University in Prague
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| employer |
gymnasium in Litomyšl
ⓘ
gymnasium in Prague ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Czechs ⓘ |
| familyName |
Jirásek
ⓘ
linked to:
Alois Jirásek
|
| fieldOfStudy |
Czech literature
ⓘ
history ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
historical drama
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Alois ⓘ |
| hasRole | shaper of modern Czech national identity ⓘ |
| influenced |
Czech historical fiction
ⓘ
Czech national consciousness ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Czech ⓘ |
| movement | Czech National Revival ⓘ |
| name | Alois Jirásek ⓘ |
| notableWork |
F. L. Věk
ⓘ
Mezi proudy ⓘ Psohlavci ⓘ Staré pověsti české ⓘ Temno ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
playwright ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| periodOfActivity |
early 20th century
ⓘ
late 19th century ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hronov ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Prague ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | member of Czechoslovak National Assembly ⓘ |
| politicalAffiliation |
Czech National Democracy
ⓘ
linked to:
Czechoslovak National Social Party
|
| workFocus |
Czech history
ⓘ
Czech national identity ⓘ Hussite period ⓘ |
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: Alois Jirásek Description of subject: Alois Jirásek was a prominent Czech writer and playwright best known for his historical novels that helped shape modern Czech national identity.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alois Jirásek