Jacobus
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Jacobus is the given name of Koos de la Rey, a prominent Boer general and political figure in South African history.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jacobus canonical | 30 |
| Iacobus | 10 |
| Jacobo | 1 |
| Jacobus (Latin form) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T334855 — 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: Jacobus Context triple: [Koos de la Rey, givenName, Jacobus]
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A.
Johannes
Johannes is the given first name of Paul Kruger, the prominent 19th-century Boer leader and president of the South African Republic.
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B.
Johanus
Johanus is a given name, likely a variant or diminutive of Johan, used as a personal first name in some cultures.
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C.
Johann
Johann is a given name of Germanic origin commonly used in German-speaking and other European countries.
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D.
Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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E.
Johan
Johan is the given first name of J. Erik Jonsson, an American businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Texas Instruments and served as mayor of Dallas.
- 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: Jacobus Target entity description: Jacobus is the given name of Koos de la Rey, a prominent Boer general and political figure in South African history.
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A.
Johannes
Johannes is the given first name of Paul Kruger, the prominent 19th-century Boer leader and president of the South African Republic.
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B.
Johanus
Johanus is a given name, likely a variant or diminutive of Johan, used as a personal first name in some cultures.
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C.
Johann
Johann is a given name of Germanic origin commonly used in German-speaking and other European countries.
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D.
Willem
Willem is a given name, primarily used in Dutch-speaking regions, that corresponds to the English name William.
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E.
Johan
Johan is the given first name of J. Erik Jonsson, an American businessman and philanthropist who co-founded Texas Instruments and served as mayor of Dallas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: Jacobus Description of subject: Jacobus is the given name of Koos de la Rey, a prominent Boer general and political figure in South African history.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Late Latin Iacomus
subject linked to:
Late Latin Iacomus
linked to: Jacobus
linked to: Jacobus
linked to: Jacobus
subject linked to:
Boer general Koos de la Rey
linked to: Jacobus
linked to: Jacobus
linked to: Jacobus
linked to: Jacobus
subject linked to:
Rev. Stephanus Jacobus du Toit
subject linked to:
James is of Hebrew origin
linked to: Jacobus
subject linked to:
Cobus (in some Afrikaans contexts as related form)
subject linked to:
Cobus (in some Afrikaans contexts as related form)
subject linked to:
Cobus (in some Afrikaans contexts as related form)