Minor
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Minor is a given name that can be used as a first name, often seen in historical and genealogical records.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Minor canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4254074 — 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: Minor Context triple: [Minor C. Keith, givenName, Minor]
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A.
Min
Min is a common given name of Chinese origin used for both males and females.
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B.
Min
Min is an ancient Egyptian fertility and male potency god, often depicted as a mummified man with an erect phallus and associated with procreation, harvests, and the eastern desert.
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C.
MIN
MIN is the standard abbreviation used for the Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team.
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D.
MIN
MIN is the standard NBA abbreviation for the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team.
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E.
MIN
MIN is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Minnesota Wild professional ice hockey team.
- 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: Minor Target entity description: Minor is a given name that can be used as a first name, often seen in historical and genealogical records.
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A.
Min
Min is a common given name of Chinese origin used for both males and females.
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B.
Min
Min is an ancient Egyptian fertility and male potency god, often depicted as a mummified man with an erect phallus and associated with procreation, harvests, and the eastern desert.
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C.
MIN
MIN is the standard NBA abbreviation for the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team.
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D.
MIN
MIN is the standard abbreviation used for the Minnesota Twins Major League Baseball team.
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E.
MIN
MIN is the standard NHL abbreviation for the Minnesota Wild professional ice hockey team.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
first name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ personal name ⓘ |
| appearsIn | family trees ⓘ |
| associatedWith | United States naming practices ⓘ |
| canAppearAs |
middle name
ⓘ
primary given name ⓘ |
| documentedIn |
census records
ⓘ
church registers ⓘ vital records ⓘ |
| hasCapitalization | initial capital letter ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English masculine given names
ⓘ
given names ⓘ masculine given names ⓘ |
| hasEtymologyStatus | uncertain ⓘ |
| hasFrequency | uncommon ⓘ |
| hasGenderUsage | masculine ⓘ |
| hasNameBearers | historical persons ⓘ |
| hasNameType | rare given name ⓘ |
| hasSpelling | Minor ⓘ |
| hasUsage |
American
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
adjective "minor"
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legal term "minor" ⓘ |
| mayDeriveFrom | English surname Minor ⓘ |
| mayRelateTo | Latin word minor ⓘ |
| usedAs | first name ⓘ |
| usedIn |
genealogical records
ⓘ
historical records ⓘ |
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: Minor Description of subject: Minor is a given name that can be used as a first name, often seen in historical and genealogical records.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.