Selma
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Selma is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, notably borne by the Swedish author and Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Selma canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5351293 — 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: Selma Context triple: [Selma Lagerlöf, givenName, Selma]
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A.
Selma
Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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B.
Selma
Selma is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its raisin production and location within Fresno County.
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C.
Selma
Selma is a small suburban city in the San Antonio metropolitan area of south-central Texas, known for its residential communities and proximity to major regional highways and attractions.
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D.
Selma (2014 film)
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film that chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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E.
Eyes on the Prize
"Eyes on the Prize" is a traditional American civil rights anthem that became widely known through its use in the 1960s movement and later popular recordings, including Bruce Springsteen’s folk revival projects.
- 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: Selma Target entity description: Selma is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, notably borne by the Swedish author and Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf.
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A.
Selma
Selma is a historic city in central Alabama best known as a key site of the American civil rights movement, particularly the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches.
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B.
Selma
Selma is a small agricultural city in California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its raisin production and location within Fresno County.
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C.
Selma
Selma is a small suburban city in the San Antonio metropolitan area of south-central Texas, known for its residential communities and proximity to major regional highways and attractions.
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D.
Selma (2014 film)
Selma is a 2014 historical drama film that chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the 1965 voting rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
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E.
Eyes on the Prize
"Eyes on the Prize" is a traditional American civil rights anthem that became widely known through its use in the 1960s movement and later popular recordings, including Bruce Springsteen’s folk revival projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | feminine given name ⓘ |
| associatedLanguage |
Danish
ⓘ
German ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ Swedish ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | associated with Scandinavian literary heritage due to Selma Lagerlöf ⓘ |
| endsWithLetter | a ⓘ |
| etymologicalOrigin |
Germanic languages
ⓘ
Scandinavian languages ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutiveForm |
Selmi
ⓘ
Selmie ⓘ |
| hasFourLetters | true ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Selma Archerd
ⓘ
Selma Bajrami ⓘ Selma Blair ⓘ Selma Burke ⓘ Selma Diamond ⓘ Selma Ergeç ⓘ Selma James ⓘ Selma Lagerlöf ⓘ Selma Lagerlöf is the first female Nobel laureate in Literature ⓘ
linked to:
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Stern ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Selima
ⓘ
linked to:
Salima
Selmah ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
Europe
ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| nameDayInFinland | June 8 ⓘ |
| nameDayInNorway | June 4 ⓘ |
| nameDayInSweden | March 8 ⓘ |
| nameUsage |
Danish
ⓘ
Norwegian ⓘ Scandinavian ⓘ Swedish ⓘ |
| popularityTrend | experienced increased usage in Scandinavia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries ⓘ |
| possibleEtymology |
derived from Old High German elements meaning "helmet" and "protection"
ⓘ
popularized through literary usage in the 18th and 19th centuries ⓘ used as a short form of names beginning with "Anselm-" or "Gisel-" ⓘ |
| startsWithLetter | S ⓘ |
| syllableCount | two ⓘ |
| 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: Selma Description of subject: Selma is a feminine given name of Scandinavian origin, notably borne by the Swedish author and Nobel laureate Selma Lagerlöf.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.