Haraldur
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Haraldur is an Icelandic given name, equivalent to Harald, commonly used for males in Iceland.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Haraldr | 1 |
| Haraldur canonical | 1 |
| Haraldur (with Icelandic declension forms) | 1 |
| Old Norse Haraldr | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6711164 — 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: Haraldur Context triple: [Harald, hasVariant, Haraldur]
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A.
Ólafur
Ólafur is an Icelandic given name, equivalent to the Old Norse name Óláfr and commonly borne by men in Iceland.
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B.
Þórsteinn
Þórsteinn is an Old Norse masculine given name, traditionally borne in Iceland and other Nordic countries and associated with Viking Age heritage.
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C.
Jóhan
Jóhan is a given name, primarily used in Faroese and other Nordic contexts, that corresponds to the name Johan.
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D.
Munan Erlendsson
Munan Erlendsson is a minor character in Sigrid Undset’s medieval Norwegian novel cycle "Kristin Lavransdatter," appearing as one of the children in Kristin’s extended family.
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E.
Nikolaus Erlendsson
Nikolaus Erlendsson is a fictional character from Sigrid Undset’s medieval Norwegian novel cycle "Kristin Lavransdatter," depicted as one of Kristin’s children.
- 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: Haraldur Target entity description: Haraldur is an Icelandic given name, equivalent to Harald, commonly used for males in Iceland.
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A.
Ólafur
Ólafur is an Icelandic given name, equivalent to the Old Norse name Óláfr and commonly borne by men in Iceland.
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B.
Þórsteinn
Þórsteinn is an Old Norse masculine given name, traditionally borne in Iceland and other Nordic countries and associated with Viking Age heritage.
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C.
Jóhan
Jóhan is a given name, primarily used in Faroese and other Nordic contexts, that corresponds to the name Johan.
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D.
Munan Erlendsson
Munan Erlendsson is a minor character in Sigrid Undset’s medieval Norwegian novel cycle "Kristin Lavransdatter," appearing as one of the children in Kristin’s extended family.
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E.
Nikolaus Erlendsson
Nikolaus Erlendsson is a fictional character from Sigrid Undset’s medieval Norwegian novel cycle "Kristin Lavransdatter," depicted as one of Kristin’s children.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Icelandic given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| belongsToNameCategory |
Icelandic masculine names
ⓘ
Nordic masculine names ⓘ |
| canFormPatronymic |
Haraldsdóttir
ⓘ
Haraldsson ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Old Norse Haraldr
ⓘ
linked to:
Haraldur
|
| equivalentTo | Harald ⓘ |
| followsPatronymicSystem | yes ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Icelandic naming tradition ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasGrammaticalCategory | proper noun ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Icelandic ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
army ruler
ⓘ
war leader ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInIceland | November 1 ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin ⓘ |
| hasSpelling | H-a-r-a-l-d-u-r ⓘ |
| hasStressPattern | first syllable stressed ⓘ |
| hasUsage | common in Iceland ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
Harald
ⓘ
Haraldur (with Icelandic declension forms) ⓘ
linked to:
Haraldur
Harold ⓘ |
| usedAsGivenNameFor | persons of Icelandic origin ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Iceland ⓘ |
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: Haraldur Description of subject: Haraldur is an Icelandic given name, equivalent to Harald, commonly used for males in Iceland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Haraldur
linked to: Haraldur
linked to: Haraldur