Jacoba
E241315
Jacoba is a feminine given name of Dutch origin, historically borne by several notable women in the Netherlands and South Africa.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacoba canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2180150 — 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: Jacoba Context triple: [Jacoba Elizabeth Greeff, givenName, Jacoba]
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A.
Rahel
Rahel is one of the central twin protagonists in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose fragmented memories and experiences drive much of the story’s emotional and narrative arc.
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B.
Bilhah
Bilhah is a biblical figure who served as Rachel’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Dan and Naphtali.
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C.
Rebekah
Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
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D.
Dinah
Dinah is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the daughter of Jacob and Leah.
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E.
Magda
Magda is a feminine given name, commonly used as a short form of Magdalena in various European languages.
- 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: Jacoba Target entity description: Jacoba is a feminine given name of Dutch origin, historically borne by several notable women in the Netherlands and South Africa.
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A.
Rahel
Rahel is one of the central twin protagonists in Arundhati Roy’s novel "The God of Small Things," whose fragmented memories and experiences drive much of the story’s emotional and narrative arc.
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B.
Bilhah
Bilhah is a biblical figure who served as Rachel’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Dan and Naphtali.
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C.
Rebekah
Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
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D.
Dinah
Dinah is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the daughter of Jacob and Leah.
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E.
Magda
Magda is a feminine given name, commonly used as a short form of Magdalena in various European languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Afrikaner culture
ⓘ
Dutch culture ⓘ |
| derivesFrom | Jacob ⓘ |
| etymologicalOriginLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerInCountry |
Netherlands
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Netherlands ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Co
ⓘ
Coba ⓘ Cobie ⓘ
linked to:
Coby
Cobus (in some Afrikaans contexts as related form) ⓘ Coby ⓘ Jackie ⓘ Koosje ⓘ |
| isFeminineFormOf |
Jacob
ⓘ
Jacobus ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Dutch ⓘ |
| meaningRelatedTo |
Jacob ("he supplants" / "may God protect")
ⓘ
linked to:
יעקב
|
| nameCategory |
Dutch feminine given names
ⓘ
Feminine given names ⓘ |
| nameType |
first name
ⓘ
personal name ⓘ |
| relatedName |
Jacob
ⓘ
Jacobus ⓘ Jacqueline ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Netherlands
ⓘ
South Africa ⓘ |
| writingSystem | 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: Jacoba Description of subject: Jacoba is a feminine given name of Dutch origin, historically borne by several notable women in the Netherlands and South Africa.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Willemina Jacoba (Wil) van Gogh
subject linked to:
Smulders
subject linked to:
Cobus (in some Afrikaans contexts as related form)
subject linked to:
Cobus (in some Afrikaans contexts as related form)
subject linked to:
Wilhelmina Jacoba “Mies” Meuring