Percy
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Percy is a masculine given name of Old French origin, famously borne by American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy W. Bridgman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percy canonical | 38 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1512523 — 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: Percy Context triple: [Percy W. Bridgman, givenName, Percy]
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A.
Jackson-Perseus
Jackson-Perseus is a publishing imprint under the Perseus Books Group, known for releasing a range of nonfiction and trade titles.
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B.
Luke
Luke is traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, and is thought to have been a physician and companion of the Apostle Paul.
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C.
Perseus
Perseus is a legendary Greek hero famed for slaying the Gorgon Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
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D.
ᾍδης
ᾍδης is the Ancient Greek name for Hades, the god who rules the underworld and the realm of the dead in Greek mythology.
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E.
Hercules
Hercules is a historic steam-powered tugboat preserved as a museum ship in San Francisco, showcasing early 20th-century maritime industry and engineering.
- 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: Percy Target entity description: Percy is a masculine given name of Old French origin, famously borne by American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy W. Bridgman.
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A.
Jackson-Perseus
Jackson-Perseus is a publishing imprint under the Perseus Books Group, known for releasing a range of nonfiction and trade titles.
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B.
Luke
Luke is traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament, and is thought to have been a physician and companion of the Apostle Paul.
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C.
Perseus
Perseus is a legendary Greek hero famed for slaying the Gorgon Medusa and rescuing Andromeda.
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D.
ᾍδης
ᾍδης is the Ancient Greek name for Hades, the god who rules the underworld and the realm of the dead in Greek mythology.
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E.
Hercules
Hercules is a historic steam-powered tugboat preserved as a museum ship in San Francisco, showcasing early 20th-century maritime industry and engineering.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | French toponym Percy ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English masculine given names
ⓘ
masculine given names ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Percy W. Bridgman
ⓘ
Percy Williams Bridgman ⓘ
linked to:
Percy W. Bridgman
|
| hasNotableBearerAward | Nobel Prize in Physics ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| hasNotableBearerOccupation | physicist ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Old French ⓘ |
| hasUsage | English ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Percival ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | first name ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin script
ⓘ
linked to:
Latin alphabet
|
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: Percy Description of subject: Percy is a masculine given name of Old French origin, famously borne by American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy W. Bridgman.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Bridgman
subject linked to:
Major-General Percy Hobart
subject linked to:
Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Lake
subject linked to:
Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard
subject linked to:
attorney Percy Foreman