Berthold
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Berthold is the family name of American comedian and actress Kate McKinnon, known for her work on Saturday Night Live.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Berthold canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3216025 — 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: Berthold Context triple: [Kate McKinnon, familyName, Berthold]
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A.
Lothar of Segni
Lothar of Segni, better known as Pope Innocent III, was one of the most powerful and influential medieval popes, who greatly expanded papal authority and played a central role in European politics and crusades at the turn of the 13th century.
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B.
Christopher of Bavaria
Christopher of Bavaria was a 15th-century king who ruled Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under the Kalmar Union.
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C.
Rudolf of Rheinfelden
Rudolf of Rheinfelden was an 11th-century Duke of Swabia who became a leading rival king to Henry IV of Germany and a central figure in the power struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire.
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D.
Adalbert of Bavaria
Adalbert of Bavaria was a 19th-century Bavarian prince from the House of Wittelsbach, known for his role in European royal and dynastic affairs.
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E.
Dietrich von Saucken
Dietrich von Saucken was a German general of the Wehrmacht during World War II, noted for his leadership on the Eastern Front and his reputation as a skilled yet independently minded commander.
- 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: Berthold Target entity description: Berthold is the family name of American comedian and actress Kate McKinnon, known for her work on Saturday Night Live.
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A.
Lothar of Segni
Lothar of Segni, better known as Pope Innocent III, was one of the most powerful and influential medieval popes, who greatly expanded papal authority and played a central role in European politics and crusades at the turn of the 13th century.
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B.
Christopher of Bavaria
Christopher of Bavaria was a 15th-century king who ruled Denmark, Sweden, and Norway under the Kalmar Union.
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C.
Rudolf of Rheinfelden
Rudolf of Rheinfelden was an 11th-century Duke of Swabia who became a leading rival king to Henry IV of Germany and a central figure in the power struggle between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire.
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D.
Adalbert of Bavaria
Adalbert of Bavaria was a 19th-century Bavarian prince from the House of Wittelsbach, known for his role in European royal and dynastic affairs.
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E.
Dietrich von Saucken
Dietrich von Saucken was a German general of the Wehrmacht during World War II, noted for his leadership on the Eastern Front and his reputation as a skilled yet independently minded commander.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category | German-language surnames ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Germanic given name Berthold ⓘ |
| familyName | Berthold self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
beraht (bright)
ⓘ
wald (rule) ⓘ |
| hasGivenNameOrigin |
Berthold
ⓘ
surface form:
Berthold (given name)
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| hasLanguageOfOrigin | German ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | bright ruler ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Kate McKinnon
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surface form:
Kate McKinnon Berthold
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| hasVariant |
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi
ⓘ
surface form:
Bertholdi
Bertholdt ⓘ |
| knownFor | Saturday Night Live ⓘ |
| nameType | patronymic or personal-name-derived surname ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
comedian ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Austria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Berthold Description of subject: Berthold is the family name of American comedian and actress Kate McKinnon, known for her work on Saturday Night Live.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kate McKinnon Berthold