Jacob
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Jacob is a male given name of Hebrew origin commonly used in many English-speaking and international cultures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob canonical | 46 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6605346 — 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: Jacob Context triple: [Jacob Latimore, givenName, Jacob]
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A.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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B.
Jacob
Jacob is the full first name of Jack Lew, the American attorney and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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C.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is the first name of Jake Peavy, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and Cy Young Award winner.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is the middle name of English actor Daniel Radcliffe, best known for portraying Harry Potter in the film series based on J.K. Rowling's novels.
- 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: Jacob Target entity description: Jacob is a male given name of Hebrew origin commonly used in many English-speaking and international cultures.
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A.
Jacob
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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B.
Jacob
Jacob is the first name of Jake Peavy, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and Cy Young Award winner.
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C.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure | patriarch Jacob in the Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| canBeUsedByReligion |
Christians
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ Muslims NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologicallyDerivedFrom | Yaʿaqov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
biblical names
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masculine given names ⓘ theophoric names ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive | Jakey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
"he supplants"
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"holder of the heel" ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Cob
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Jake NERFINISHED ⓘ Jay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Giacomo
NERFINISHED
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Iacob NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacques NERFINISHED ⓘ Jakob NERFINISHED ⓘ James NERFINISHED ⓘ Yaakov NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCommonIn |
English-speaking countries
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Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameType |
first name
ⓘ
forename ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Czech
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Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese NERFINISHED ⓘ Romanian ⓘ Scandinavian languages ⓘ Slovak ⓘ Spanish ⓘ various international languages ⓘ |
| wasPopularInDecade |
1990s
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2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ |
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: Jacob Description of subject: Jacob is a male given name of Hebrew origin commonly used in many English-speaking and international cultures.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tribe of Manasseh
subject linked to:
CIA officer Jacob Esterline
subject linked to:
Dutch poet Jacob Cats