Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου
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Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου is the Greek name for James the Less, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5998893 — 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: Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου Context triple: [James the Less, nameInGreek, Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου]
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A.
Yohanan
Yohanan is a Hebrew given name, often rendered as "Yohanan" or "Yochanan," meaning "God is gracious" and historically borne by various Jewish religious and political figures.
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B.
Matthaeus
Matthaeus is the Latin form of the given name Matthew, commonly associated with the biblical apostle and evangelist.
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C.
Ioannis
Ioannis is the Greek given name of Jean Moréas, a prominent 19th-century Greek-French poet associated with the Symbolist movement.
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D.
Ioannis
Ioannis is the birth name of Ieronymos II, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece.
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E.
Saint Jacob of Nisibis
Saint Jacob of Nisibis was a 4th-century bishop and ascetic renowned as one of the early fathers of the Syriac Church and a participant in the First Council of Nicaea.
- 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: Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου Target entity description: Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου is the Greek name for James the Less, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament.
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A.
Yohanan
Yohanan is a Hebrew given name, often rendered as "Yohanan" or "Yochanan," meaning "God is gracious" and historically borne by various Jewish religious and political figures.
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B.
Matthaeus
Matthaeus is the Latin form of the given name Matthew, commonly associated with the biblical apostle and evangelist.
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C.
Ioannis
Ioannis is the Greek given name of Jean Moréas, a prominent 19th-century Greek-French poet associated with the Symbolist movement.
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D.
Ioannis
Ioannis is the birth name of Ieronymos II, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece.
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E.
Saint Jacob of Nisibis
Saint Jacob of Nisibis was a 4th-century bishop and ascetic renowned as one of the early fathers of the Syriac Church and a participant in the First Council of Nicaea.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian saint
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apostle ⓘ biblical figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
James son of Alphaeus
NERFINISHED
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James the Less NERFINISHED ⓘ James the son of Alphaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jesus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
early Christian Church in Jerusalem (in some traditions) ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | saint ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 1st century ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn | Roman Martyrology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom |
James son of Zebedee
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James the Just NERFINISHED ⓘ James the brother of Jesus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Alphaeus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feastDay |
June 30 (Eastern Orthodox Synaxis of the Twelve Apostles)
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May 1 (traditional Roman calendar, with Philip the Apostle) ⓘ May 3 (Roman Catholic Church, with Philip the Apostle) ⓘ October 9 (Eastern Orthodox Church, with James son of Zebedee and John the Evangelist) ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Greek ⓘ |
| listedInApostolicCatalog |
Acts 1:13
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Luke 6:15 ⓘ Mark 3:18 ⓘ Matthew 10:3 ⓘ |
| martyrdom | traditionally held to have been martyred ⓘ |
| memberOf | Twelve Apostles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Acts of the Apostles
ⓘ
Gospel of Luke ⓘ Gospel of Mark ⓘ Gospel of Matthew ⓘ New Testament ⓘ |
| nameInGreek | Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronage |
fullers (in some traditions)
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hatmakers (in some traditions) ⓘ pharmacists (in some traditions) ⓘ |
| possibleIdentification |
James the Less
NERFINISHED
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James the brother of the Lord (in some traditions) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| role |
apostolic missionary
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disciple of Jesus ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Anglican Communion
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Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Lutheran Churches NERFINISHED ⓘ Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form:
Oriental Orthodox Churches
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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: Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου Description of subject: Ἰάκωβος ὁ τοῦ Ἁλφαίου is the Greek name for James the Less, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.