Ulysses
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Ulysses is a masculine given name most famously associated with the 18th U.S. president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ulysses canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5107404 — 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: Ulysses Context triple: [Ulysses S. Grant Jr., givenName, Ulysses]
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
Ulysses
"Ulysses" is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on aging, heroism, and the restless desire for continued adventure and purpose.
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C.
Ulysses
Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, the legendary Greek hero of Homer’s epics known for his cunning and long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War.
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D.
Ulysses
Ulysses is James Joyce’s landmark modernist novel that chronicles a single day in Dublin through the stream-of-consciousness experiences of characters including Leopold Bloom.
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E.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
- 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: Ulysses Target entity description: Ulysses is a masculine given name most famously associated with the 18th U.S. president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant.
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A.
Ulysses
Ulysses is a small town in Tompkins County, New York, known for its rural character and proximity to Cayuga Lake and the Finger Lakes region.
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B.
Ulysses
"Ulysses" is a dramatic monologue poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson that reflects on aging, heroism, and the restless desire for continued adventure and purpose.
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C.
Ulysses
Ulysses is the Latin name for Odysseus, the legendary Greek hero of Homer’s epics known for his cunning and long, perilous journey home after the Trojan War.
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D.
Ulysses
Ulysses is James Joyce’s landmark modernist novel that chronicles a single day in Dublin through the stream-of-consciousness experiences of characters including Leopold Bloom.
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E.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake is James Joyce’s experimental modernist novel renowned for its dense, multilingual wordplay and radically unconventional narrative style.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
ⓘ
Ulysses S. Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Latin name Ulixes
ⓘ
Latin name Ulysses ⓘ |
| etymologicallyRelatedTo | Greek name Odysseus ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English masculine given names
ⓘ
Masculine given names ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
American Civil War history
ⓘ
classical mythology ⓘ |
| hasFamousBearer |
Ulysses Gomez
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ulysses Guimarães NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulysses Kay NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulysses S. Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFictionalBearer |
Ulysses (Marvel Comics character)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ulysses Klaue NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulysses Paxton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasMeaningAssociation |
to hate
ⓘ
wrathful ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInSomeTraditions | June 29 ⓘ |
| hasNameElement | Ulyss- ⓘ |
| hasPopularityPeak | late 19th century in the United States ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Uly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant |
Ulices
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ulis NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulisses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | UL-yss-eez ⓘ |
| hasSyllableCount | 3 ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Odysseus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| isRareNameIn | 21st-century United States ⓘ |
| usedAs |
first name
ⓘ
middle name ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Ireland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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: Ulysses Description of subject: Ulysses is a masculine given name most famously associated with the 18th U.S. president and Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.