Craig
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Craig is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that means "rock" or "crag."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Craig canonical | 82 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T560938 — 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: Craig Context triple: [Craig T. Nelson, givenName, Craig]
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A.
Neal
Neal is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Craig Neal
Craig Neal is an American basketball coach and former player best known for serving as head coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team.
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C.
Tyler
Tyler is the officer in a Masonic lodge responsible for guarding the entrance and ensuring only qualified individuals are admitted to meetings.
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D.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
- 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: Craig Target entity description: Craig is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that means "rock" or "crag."
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A.
Neal
Neal is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Craig Neal
Craig Neal is an American basketball coach and former player best known for serving as head coach of the University of New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team.
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C.
Tyler
Tyler is the officer in a Masonic lodge responsible for guarding the entrance and ensuring only qualified individuals are admitted to meetings.
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D.
Andrew
Andrew is a masculine given name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave," widely used in English-speaking countries and beyond.
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E.
Andrew
Andrew is a subway station in South Boston on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's Red Line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| canAlsoBe | surname ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Scottish Gaelic word "creag" ⓘ |
| etymologicalRelation | related to place names meaning "rock" or "crag" ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Craige
ⓘ
Creig ⓘ
linked to:
Dugald
|
| meaning |
crag
ⓘ
rock ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
English-language masculine given name
ⓘ
Scottish masculine given name ⓘ |
| nameDayRegion | not commonly associated with a specific name day ⓘ |
| popularityPeakApprox | late 20th century in English-speaking countries ⓘ |
| shortFormOf | not typically a diminutive ⓘ |
| typicalNameType | first name ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
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: Craig Description of subject: Craig is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that means "rock" or "crag."
Referenced by (82)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.