Zachary
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Zachary is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," borne by various notable figures including the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3089252 — 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: Zachary Context triple: [Zachary Taylor, givenName, Zachary]
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A.
Zachary Williams
Zachary Williams is the eldest son of the late American actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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B.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Zac
Zac is a common shortened form of the given name Isaac.
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D.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
- 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: Zachary Target entity description: Zachary is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," borne by various notable figures including the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor.
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A.
Zachary Williams
Zachary Williams is the eldest son of the late American actor and comedian Robin Williams.
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B.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Zac
Zac is a common shortened form of the given name Isaac.
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D.
Gavin
Gavin is a masculine given name of Celtic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Jared
Jared is the given name of Jared Diamond, an American geographer, historian, and author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ human ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| borneBy | Zachary Taylor ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1784-11-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1850-07-09 ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
prophet Zechariah
ⓘ
surface form:
Zechariah
|
| hasCategory |
English masculine given names
ⓘ
Hebrew masculine given names ⓘ theophoric names ⓘ |
| hasGender |
male
ⓘ
masculine ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Zachary self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
Yahweh has remembered
ⓘ
the Lord has remembered ⓘ |
| hasNickName |
Zac
ⓘ
Zach ⓘ Zack ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition | Biblical ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Zac
ⓘ
Zach ⓘ Zack ⓘ |
| hasUsage | given name ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Zachary
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Zacary
Zachary self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Zachery
Zachary self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Zackary
|
| headOfGovernmentOf | United States of America ⓘ |
| isCognateOf |
Zechariah
ⓘ
surface form:
Zacharias
prophet Zechariah ⓘ
surface form:
Zechariah
|
| nameDayTradition | Christian ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice | 12th President of the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of the United States ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1850-07-09 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1849-03-04 ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Zachary Description of subject: Zachary is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered," borne by various notable figures including the 12th U.S. president, Zachary Taylor.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zach
this entity surface form:
Zach
this entity surface form:
Zachariah
this entity surface form:
Zachery
this entity surface form:
Zackary
this entity surface form:
Zacary
subject surface form:
Zachary Taylor