Caleb
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Caleb is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "devotion" or "whole-hearted," commonly used in English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caleb canonical | 26 |
| Caleb son of Jephunneh | 1 |
| Kaleb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T396070 — 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: Caleb Context triple: [Casey Affleck, givenName, Caleb]
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A.
Caleb Lyon
Caleb Lyon was a 19th-century American politician and designer best known for creating the Great Seal of the State of California.
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B.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
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D.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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E.
Timothy
Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
- 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: Caleb Target entity description: Caleb is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "devotion" or "whole-hearted," commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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A.
Caleb Lyon
Caleb Lyon was a 19th-century American politician and designer best known for creating the Great Seal of the State of California.
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B.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
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D.
Timothy
Timothy is the given first name of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who invented the World Wide Web.
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E.
Timothy
Timothy is a prominent early Christian companion and protégé of the Apostle Paul, known from the New Testament for his missionary work and pastoral leadership.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| category |
Biblical names
ⓘ
Hebrew masculine given names ⓘ Masculine given names ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kalev) ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalAssociation | yes ⓘ |
| hasConnotation |
faithfulness
ⓘ
loyalty ⓘ whole-heartedness ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
devotion
ⓘ
whole-hearted ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Kaleb
ⓘ
linked to:
Caleb
|
| isPopularIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| nameDayTradition | observed in some Christian calendars ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | English-speaking countries ⓘ |
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: Caleb Description of subject: Caleb is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "devotion" or "whole-hearted," commonly used in English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Numbers
subject linked to:
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt
linked to: Caleb
subject linked to:
Affleck family
subject linked to:
Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kalev)
subject linked to:
Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kalev)
linked to: Caleb
subject linked to:
Hebrew כָּלֵב (Kalev)