Ira
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Ira is a given name most famously associated with American lyricist Ira Gershwin, who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin on numerous classic songs and musicals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ira canonical | 22 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5727498 — 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: Ira Context triple: [Ira Gershwin, givenName, Ira]
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A.
Ira
Ira is a supporting character in the 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone," involved in the story’s treasure-hunting and kidnapping plot.
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B.
Iras
Iras is a loyal attendant and companion to Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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C.
Ira Newborn
Ira Newborn is an American composer and musician best known for his film scores and theme music for popular comedies of the 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
Irvin
Irvin is a surname most prominently associated with former NFL wide receiver and sports commentator Michael Irvin.
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E.
Ira Morgan
Ira Morgan was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early 20th-century films, including collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
- 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: Ira Target entity description: Ira is a given name most famously associated with American lyricist Ira Gershwin, who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin on numerous classic songs and musicals.
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A.
Ira
Ira is a supporting character in the 1984 adventure-romance film "Romancing the Stone," involved in the story’s treasure-hunting and kidnapping plot.
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B.
Iras
Iras is a loyal attendant and companion to Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra."
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C.
Ira Newborn
Ira Newborn is an American composer and musician best known for his film scores and theme music for popular comedies of the 1980s and 1990s.
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D.
Irvin
Irvin is a surname most prominently associated with former NFL wide receiver and sports commentator Michael Irvin.
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E.
Ira Morgan
Ira Morgan was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic early 20th-century films, including collaborations with Charlie Chaplin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language given name
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Hebrew given name ⓘ given name ⓘ unisex given name ⓘ |
| hasCategory | given names derived from Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasGenderUsage |
female
ⓘ
male ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
vigilant
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watchful ⓘ |
| hasNameDayTradition | varies by country ⓘ |
| hasNotableFictionalBearer | Ira (various fictional characters in film and television) ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Hebrew language
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linked to:
Hebrew
|
| hasScriptForm |
Hebrew alphabet
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Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasUsageFrequency | moderate in the United States ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm | Ira (Hebrew: עִירָא) ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
American popular music
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Jewish given names ⓘ |
| isNotableBearer |
Ira Aldridge
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Ira B. Tucker ⓘ Ira C. Eaker ⓘ Ira Einhorn ⓘ Ira F. Stanphill ⓘ Ira Flatow ⓘ Ira Gershwin ⓘ Ira Gershwin (American lyricist) ⓘ
linked to:
Ira Gershwin
Ira Glass ⓘ Ira Hamilton Hayes ⓘ
linked to:
Ira Hayes
Ira Hayes ⓘ Ira Levin ⓘ Ira Losco ⓘ Ira P. DeLoache ⓘ Ira Remsen ⓘ Ira S. Webb ⓘ Ira Sachs ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
English-speaking countries
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Israel ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| sharesNameWith |
IRA (acronym, distinct from the given name)
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Ira (biblical figure) ⓘ Ira (place names) ⓘ |
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: Ira Description of subject: Ira is a given name most famously associated with American lyricist Ira Gershwin, who collaborated with his brother George Gershwin on numerous classic songs and musicals.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.