Jasper
E268987
Jasper is a masculine given name of Persian origin meaning "treasurer," historically associated with one of the Three Wise Men and used in various English-speaking countries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jasper canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2451838 — 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: Jasper Context triple: [Jasper Francis Cropsey, givenName, Jasper]
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A.
Jasper
Jasper is a small city in northwestern Alabama known historically for its coal mining and role in the state's industrial development.
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B.
Beryl
Beryl is a given name that can be used for people of any gender, historically more common as a female name in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Opal
Opal is a precious gemstone renowned for its vibrant play-of-color and is especially associated with major deposits in Australia.
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D.
White Flint
White Flint was a Washington Metro station in North Bethesda, Maryland, serving the Red Line and the nearby White Flint Mall area before being renamed.
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E.
Jade
Jade is a key protagonist in the action-comedy film "Bulletproof Monk," known for her rebellious streak and eventual role in the battle to protect a mystical scroll.
- 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: Jasper Target entity description: Jasper is a masculine given name of Persian origin meaning "treasurer," historically associated with one of the Three Wise Men and used in various English-speaking countries.
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A.
Jasper
Jasper is a small city in northwestern Alabama known historically for its coal mining and role in the state's industrial development.
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B.
Beryl
Beryl is a given name that can be used for people of any gender, historically more common as a female name in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Opal
Opal is a precious gemstone renowned for its vibrant play-of-color and is especially associated with major deposits in Australia.
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D.
White Flint
White Flint was a Washington Metro station in North Bethesda, Maryland, serving the Red Line and the nearby White Flint Mall area before being renamed.
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E.
Jade
Jade is a key protagonist in the action-comedy film "Bulletproof Monk," known for her rebellious streak and eventual role in the battle to protect a mystical scroll.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Melchior
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Magi
Wise Men ⓘ
surface form:
Three Wise Men
|
| category |
English masculine given names
ⓘ
Persian masculine given names ⓘ given names derived from Persian ⓘ |
| culturalUsage | Christian tradition ⓘ |
| etymologyDerivedFrom | Persian word for treasurer ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | treasurer ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Persian language ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Caspar
ⓘ
Gaspar ⓘ Gaspard ⓘ Caspar ⓘ
surface form:
Kaspar
Jesper ⓘ
surface form:
Kasper
|
| historicallyLinkedRole | treasurer of the Magi ⓘ |
| nameDayTradition | Christian name days for Epiphany-related names ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ English-speaking countries ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| 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: Jasper Description of subject: Jasper is a masculine given name of Persian origin meaning "treasurer," historically associated with one of the Three Wise Men and used in various English-speaking countries.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.