Emily
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Emily is a given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with literary, historical, and contemporary cultural figures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Emily canonical | 43 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2878741 — 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: Emily Context triple: [Amélie, relatedName, Emily]
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A.
Emily
Emily Warren Roebling was a pioneering 19th-century American engineer best known for her crucial role in overseeing the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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B.
Emma
Emma is a common feminine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking and many other countries.
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C.
Jane
Jane is a feminine given name of English origin that has been widely used in many English-speaking countries for centuries.
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D.
Amy
Amy is a critically acclaimed 2015 documentary film about the life and career of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse.
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E.
Jessica
Jessica Barth is an American actress best known for her comedic role as Tami-Lynn in the "Ted" film series.
- 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: Emily Target entity description: Emily is a given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with literary, historical, and contemporary cultural figures.
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A.
Emily
Emily Warren Roebling was a pioneering 19th-century American engineer best known for her crucial role in overseeing the completion of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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B.
Emma
Emma is a common feminine given name of Germanic origin, widely used in English-speaking and many other countries.
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C.
Jane
Jane is a feminine given name of English origin that has been widely used in many English-speaking countries for centuries.
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D.
Amy
Amy is a critically acclaimed 2015 documentary film about the life and career of British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse.
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E.
Jessica
Jessica Barth is an American actress best known for her comedic role as Tami-Lynn in the "Ted" film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (74)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
contemporary cultural figures
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historical figures ⓘ literary characters ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Em
ⓘ
Emmie ⓘ Emmy ⓘ Millie ⓘ Milly ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin |
Aemilia
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Latin family name Aemilius ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfUse |
American English
ⓘ
Australian English ⓘ British English ⓘ Canadian English ⓘ Danish ⓘ Dutch ⓘ English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Irish ⓘ Italian ⓘ New Zealand English ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Scottish English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
eager
ⓘ
industrious ⓘ rival ⓘ |
| hasNameDay | varies by country ⓘ |
| hasNameType | first name ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Emily Blunt
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Emily Brontë ⓘ Emily Carr ⓘ Emily Dickinson ⓘ Emily Watson ⓘ |
| hasNotableFictionalCharacter |
Emily (The Devil Wears Prada)
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Emily (Thomas & Friends) ⓘ Emily Starr ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Em
ⓘ
Emme ⓘ Emmie ⓘ Emmy ⓘ Lee ⓘ Millie ⓘ Milly ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | EM-i-ly ⓘ |
| hasSyllableCount | 3 ⓘ |
| hasUsageFrequency |
high in early 21st century
ⓘ
high in late 20th century ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
Elly
ⓘ
surface form:
Emely
Emmalee ⓘ
surface form:
Emilee
Emilia (Othello character) ⓘ
surface form:
Emilia
Emilia (Italian form) ⓘ Emilia (Polish form) ⓘ Emilia (Spanish form) ⓘ Emilie ⓘ Emilie ⓘ
surface form:
Emilie (French form)
Emmalee ⓘ Émilie ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| isPopularIn |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ English-speaking countries ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| isUsedFor | humans ⓘ |
| wasTopGivenNameIn |
United States early 2000s
ⓘ
United States late 1990s ⓘ |
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: Emily Description of subject: Emily is a given name commonly used in English-speaking countries, often associated with literary, historical, and contemporary cultural figures.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eve Best
subject surface form:
Emily Ruth Black
subject surface form:
Emily Howland
subject surface form:
Emily Junk