Fidelis
E19233
Fidelis is a Latin word meaning "faithful" or "loyal," commonly used in mottos and phrases to express steadfast allegiance and reliability.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Fidelis canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T121512 — 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: Fidelis Context triple: [Semper Fidelis, hasPart, Fidelis]
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A.
Benito
Benito is the given name of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party and ruled Italy from the 1920s until 1943.
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B.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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C.
Gabriel
Gabriel is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Andreas
Andreas is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in various European and international cultures.
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E.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
- 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: Fidelis Target entity description: Fidelis is a Latin word meaning "faithful" or "loyal," commonly used in mottos and phrases to express steadfast allegiance and reliability.
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A.
Benito
Benito is the given name of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who founded and led the National Fascist Party and ruled Italy from the 1920s until 1943.
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B.
Colinus
Colinus is a genus of New World quails best known for species like the Northern bobwhite, small ground-dwelling game birds found in the Americas.
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C.
Gabriel
Gabriel is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, widely used in many cultures and languages.
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D.
Andreas
Andreas is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in various European and international cultures.
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E.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Latin word ⓘ |
| comparativeForm | fidelior ⓘ |
| connotation |
allegiance
ⓘ
reliability ⓘ steadfastness ⓘ |
| degree | positive ⓘ |
| etymologicalRelation |
English word "faithful"
ⓘ
English word "fidelity" ⓘ Romance-language words for "faithful" ⓘ |
| grammaticalGender |
feminine
ⓘ
masculine ⓘ neuter ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Latin ⓘ |
| meaning |
faithful
ⓘ
loyal ⓘ |
| partOfSpeech | adjective ⓘ |
| relatedNoun | fides ⓘ |
| rootForm | fid- ⓘ |
| semanticField |
faithfulness
ⓘ
loyalty ⓘ |
| superlativeForm | fidelissimus ⓘ |
| typicalContext |
institutional mottos
ⓘ
military mottos ⓘ religious mottos ⓘ |
| usageRegister | formal ⓘ |
| usedAs | motto component ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Latin mottos
ⓘ
Latin phrases ⓘ |
| usedInMotto |
Pro fide et patria fidelis
ⓘ
Semper Fidelis ⓘ |
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: Fidelis Description of subject: Fidelis is a Latin word meaning "faithful" or "loyal," commonly used in mottos and phrases to express steadfast allegiance and reliability.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.