Beránek
E489943
Beránek is a Czech surname and word meaning "little lamb," commonly used as a family name in Czech-speaking regions.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5038384 — 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: Beránek Context triple: [Beranek, hasVariant, Beránek]
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A.
Brněnec
Brněnec is a village in the Czech Republic known as the location of Oskar Schindler’s factory where many Jewish workers, later called the Schindlerjuden, were saved during the Holocaust.
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B.
Bečkerek
Bečkerek is the historical name of the Serbian city now known as Zrenjanin, located in the Banat region of the Vojvodina province.
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C.
Náchod
Náchod is a historic town in northeastern Bohemia, Czech Republic, known for its castle overlooking the Metuje River and its proximity to the Polish border.
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D.
Ruzinov
Ružinov is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia, known as a major residential and commercial district of the capital.
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E.
Svatava
Svatava is a river in Central Europe that flows through parts of Germany and the Czech Republic before joining the Ohře River.
- 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: Beránek Target entity description: Beránek is a Czech surname and word meaning "little lamb," commonly used as a family name in Czech-speaking regions.
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A.
Brněnec
Brněnec is a village in the Czech Republic known as the location of Oskar Schindler’s factory where many Jewish workers, later called the Schindlerjuden, were saved during the Holocaust.
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B.
Bečkerek
Bečkerek is the historical name of the Serbian city now known as Zrenjanin, located in the Banat region of the Vojvodina province.
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C.
Náchod
Náchod is a historic town in northeastern Bohemia, Czech Republic, known for its castle overlooking the Metuje River and its proximity to the Polish border.
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D.
Ruzinov
Ružinov is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia, known as a major residential and commercial district of the capital.
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E.
Svatava
Svatava is a river in Central Europe that flows through parts of Germany and the Czech Republic before joining the Ohře River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech word
ⓘ
Czech-language surname ⓘ family name ⓘ |
| belongsToOnomasticTradition | Czech onomastics ⓘ |
| commonInCountry | Czech Republic ⓘ |
| diminutiveOf | beran ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin | Czech word for lamb ⓘ |
| feminineForm | Beránková ⓘ |
| genderForm | masculine ⓘ |
| hasCategory | Czech-language surnames ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic |
á
ⓘ
é ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | little lamb ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Jaroslav Beránek
ⓘ
Jiří Beránek ⓘ Josef Beránek ⓘ Pavel Beránek ⓘ Václav Beránek ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm |
Beránkovi
ⓘ
linked to:
Beránek
|
| hasStressPattern | stress on first syllable ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | family name ⓘ |
| language | Czech ⓘ |
| nameCategory | occupational or descriptive surname ⓘ |
| nameType | patronymic or nickname-derived surname ⓘ |
| semanticField |
animals
ⓘ
diminutives ⓘ |
| transliteration | Beranek ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Czech Republic
ⓘ
Czech-speaking regions ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Beránek Description of subject: Beránek is a Czech surname and word meaning "little lamb," commonly used as a family name in Czech-speaking regions.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Beránek