Novotný
E614652
Novotný is a common Czech surname borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and sports.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6726678 — 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: Novotný Context triple: [Antonín Novotný, familyName, Novotný]
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A.
Novák
Novák is a common Czech and Slovak surname, equivalent to the Polish surname Nowak.
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B.
Nosková
Nosková is a Czech surname, typically the feminine form of the surname Nosek.
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C.
Ruzinov
Ružinov is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia, known as a major residential and commercial district of the capital.
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D.
Dubček
Dubček is the surname of Alexander Dubček, the Slovak politician best known for leading the Prague Spring reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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E.
Beránek
Beránek is a Czech surname and word meaning "little lamb," commonly used as a family name in Czech-speaking regions.
- 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: Novotný Target entity description: Novotný is a common Czech surname borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and sports.
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A.
Novák
Novák is a common Czech and Slovak surname, equivalent to the Polish surname Nowak.
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B.
Nosková
Nosková is a Czech surname, typically the feminine form of the surname Nosek.
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C.
Ruzinov
Ružinov is a borough of Bratislava, Slovakia, known as a major residential and commercial district of the capital.
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D.
Dubček
Dubček is the surname of Alexander Dubček, the Slovak politician best known for leading the Prague Spring reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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E.
Beránek
Beránek is a Czech surname and word meaning "little lamb," commonly used as a family name in Czech-speaking regions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Czech-language surname
ⓘ
person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
Czech-language surnames
ⓘ
Surnames from nicknames ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Czech Republic
ⓘ
Czech Republic ⓘ Czech Republic ⓘ Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1904-12-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1975-01-28 ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Czech adjective "nový" (new) ⓘ |
| familyName |
Novotný
ⓘ
Novotný ⓘ Novotný ⓘ Novotný ⓘ |
| givenName |
Antonín
ⓘ
David ⓘ František ⓘ Jiří ⓘ |
| hasFeminineForm |
Novotná
ⓘ
linked to:
Novotný
|
| hasNotableBearer |
Antonín Novotný
ⓘ
David Novotný ⓘ František Novotný ⓘ Jaroslav Novotný ⓘ Jiří Novotný ⓘ Karel Novotný ⓘ Ladislav Novotný ⓘ Miroslav Novotný ⓘ Pavel Novotný ⓘ Václav Novotný ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Czech ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
footballer ⓘ politician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Letňany ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Prague ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
ⓘ
President of Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Czech Republic
ⓘ
Slovakia ⓘ |
| 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: Novotný Description of subject: Novotný is a common Czech surname borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and sports.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.