Magdalena
E38830
Magdalena is the given first name of Swedish opera singer and environmental activist Malena Ernman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Magdalena canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T279693 — 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: Magdalena Context triple: [Malena Ernman, givenName, Magdalena]
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A.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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B.
Bór
Bór is the wartime nickname of Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the Polish general who commanded the Home Army and led the Warsaw Uprising during World War II.
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C.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
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D.
Savo
Savo is a town in Kenya’s Central Province known as one of the region’s notable settlements.
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E.
Anières
Anières is a small lakeside municipality in western Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva near the city of Geneva.
- 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: Magdalena Target entity description: Magdalena is the given first name of Swedish opera singer and environmental activist Malena Ernman.
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A.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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B.
Bór
Bór is the wartime nickname of Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, the Polish general who commanded the Home Army and led the Warsaw Uprising during World War II.
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C.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
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D.
Savo
Savo is a town in Kenya’s Central Province known as one of the region’s notable settlements.
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E.
Anières
Anières is a small lakeside municipality in western Switzerland, situated on the shores of Lake Geneva near the city of Geneva.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mary Magdalene ⓘ |
| category |
Christian given names
ⓘ
biblical names ⓘ theophoric names ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Maria Magdalena Keverich
ⓘ
surface form:
Magdalene
|
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Lena
ⓘ
Magda ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Maddalena
ⓘ
Madeleine ⓘ Magda ⓘ Maria Magdalena Keverich ⓘ
surface form:
Magdalene
Malena ⓘ |
| meaning | woman from Magdala ⓘ |
| usedAsFirstNameOf | Malena Ernman ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Bulgarian
ⓘ
Croatian ⓘ Czech ⓘ German ⓘ Hungarian ⓘ Lithuanian ⓘ Macedonian ⓘ Polish ⓘ Portuguese language ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese
Serbian language ⓘ
surface form:
Serbian
Slovak language ⓘ
surface form:
Slovak
Slovene ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
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: Magdalena Description of subject: Magdalena is the given first name of Swedish opera singer and environmental activist Malena Ernman.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.