Adam
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Adam is a common surname of Scottish and English origin, borne by various notable individuals including architects, politicians, and artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adam canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3801072 — 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: Adam Context triple: [James Adam, familyName, Adam]
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A.
Adam
Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
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B.
Adam
Adam is a reclusive, centuries-old vampire musician and one of the two melancholic immortal lovers at the center of Jim Jarmusch’s film "Only Lovers Left Alive."
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C.
Adam
Adam is a renowned sculpture by Auguste Rodin, notable for its expressive depiction of the biblical figure and housed in the Rodin Museum.
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D.
Andre
Andre is the given name of Andre Reed, a former American football wide receiver best known for his long career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
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E.
Albert
Albert is the given name of Albert A. Michelson, the pioneering physicist known for his precise measurements of the speed of light and the Michelson–Morley experiment.
- 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: Adam Target entity description: Adam is a common surname of Scottish and English origin, borne by various notable individuals including architects, politicians, and artists.
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A.
Adam
Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
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B.
Adam
Adam is a reclusive, centuries-old vampire musician and one of the two melancholic immortal lovers at the center of Jim Jarmusch’s film "Only Lovers Left Alive."
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C.
Adam
Adam is a renowned sculpture by Auguste Rodin, notable for its expressive depiction of the biblical figure and housed in the Rodin Museum.
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D.
Andre
Andre is the given name of Andre Reed, a former American football wide receiver best known for his long career with the Buffalo Bills in the NFL.
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E.
Albert
Albert is the given name of Albert A. Michelson, the pioneering physicist known for his precise measurements of the speed of light and the Michelson–Morley experiment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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Scottish surname ⓘ architect ⓘ architect ⓘ architect ⓘ architect ⓘ composer ⓘ family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth |
1689
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1721 ⓘ 1728-07-03 ⓘ 1732 ⓘ 1803-07-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath |
1748
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1792 ⓘ 1792-03-03 ⓘ 1794 ⓘ 1856-05-03 ⓘ |
| hasCategory | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin | given name Adam ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOriginLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Adam ⓘ |
| hasFrequency |
common in Scotland
ⓘ
uncommon but present in England ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
Adolphe
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Helen ⓘ James ⓘ John ⓘ Robert ⓘ William ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
earth
ⓘ
man ⓘ |
| hasNationality |
French
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Scottish ⓘ Scottish-American ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Adolphe Adam
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Helen Adam ⓘ James Adam ⓘ John Adam ⓘ Julian Adam ⓘ Malcolm Adam ⓘ Robert Adam ⓘ William Adam ⓘ artists ⓘ politicians ⓘ |
| hasUsageType | hereditary surname ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Adams
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MacAdam ⓘ McAdam ⓘ
linked to:
Adamson
|
| isDerivedFrom | personal name Adam ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
Scottish country house design
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ballet Giselle ⓘ neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ England ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Adam Description of subject: Adam is a common surname of Scottish and English origin, borne by various notable individuals including architects, politicians, and artists.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.