Aleksander
E56933
Aleksander is a given name, commonly used in Slavic and Scandinavian countries, that corresponds to the name Alexander.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aleksander canonical | 15 |
| Aleks | 2 |
| Aleksandr | 2 |
| Александер | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T287841 — 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: Aleksander Context triple: [Alexander, variant, Aleksander]
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A.
Edvard
Edvard is a given name, commonly used in Scandinavian and some European countries, that corresponds to the English name Edward.
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B.
Alexandrovich
Alexandrovich is the Russian patronymic indicating "son of Alexander," famously used in the full name of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
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C.
Gustaf
Gustaf is the given name of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the Finnish military leader and statesman who served as Commander-in-Chief during World War II and later as President of Finland.
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D.
Nikolaus
Nikolaus is the traditional German figure based on Saint Nicholas who brings small gifts to children on the eve of December 6th.
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E.
Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky was a 13th-century Russian prince and military leader renowned for defending medieval Rus' against invading Swedes and Teutonic Knights and later canonized as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.
- 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: Aleksander Target entity description: Aleksander is a given name, commonly used in Slavic and Scandinavian countries, that corresponds to the name Alexander.
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A.
Edvard
Edvard is a given name, commonly used in Scandinavian and some European countries, that corresponds to the English name Edward.
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B.
Alexandrovich
Alexandrovich is the Russian patronymic indicating "son of Alexander," famously used in the full name of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
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C.
Gustaf
Gustaf is the given name of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, the Finnish military leader and statesman who served as Commander-in-Chief during World War II and later as President of Finland.
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D.
Nikolaus
Nikolaus is the traditional German figure based on Saint Nicholas who brings small gifts to children on the eve of December 6th.
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E.
Alexander Nevsky
Alexander Nevsky was a 13th-century Russian prince and military leader renowned for defending medieval Rus' against invading Swedes and Teutonic Knights and later canonized as a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| correspondsToName | Alexander ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Alexandros ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Masculine given names
ⓘ
Scandinavian masculine given names ⓘ Slavic masculine given names ⓘ |
| hasCyrillicForm |
Александер
ⓘ
linked to:
Aleksander
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfUse |
Croatian
ⓘ
Danish ⓘ Estonian ⓘ Finnish ⓘ Icelandic ⓘ Latvian ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ
linked to:
Norwegian language
Polish ⓘ Russian ⓘ Serbian ⓘ Slovene ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | defender of men ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInPoland |
August 11
ⓘ
December 18 ⓘ February 26 ⓘ May 3 ⓘ September 12 ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Greek ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Alek
ⓘ
Aleks ⓘ
linked to:
Aleksander
Olek ⓘ Sasha ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
Aleksandar
ⓘ
Alessandro ⓘ Alexander ⓘ Alexandre ⓘ Oleksandr ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| isCognateWith |
Alejandro
ⓘ
Iskandar ⓘ
linked to:
Eskandar
Sándor ⓘ |
| isCommonInRegion |
Scandinavian countries
ⓘ
linked to:
Scandinavia
Slavic countries ⓘ |
| usedAs | first name ⓘ |
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: Aleksander Description of subject: Aleksander is a given name, commonly used in Slavic and Scandinavian countries, that corresponds to the name Alexander.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Aleksander
linked to: Aleksander
linked to: Aleksander
linked to: Aleksander