Roxana
E66871
Roxana is a feminine given name of Persian origin, historically associated with figures such as the wife of Alexander the Great and later borne by various notable women.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roxana canonical | 21 |
| Farangis | 1 |
| Roxana (Latinized form) | 1 |
| Roxana of Bactria | 1 |
| Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great | 1 |
| Roxanna | 1 |
| Roxsana | 1 |
| Roxána | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T515824 — 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: Roxana Context triple: [Roxana Foote Beecher, givenName, Roxana]
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A.
Clementina
Clementina is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Clementine, used in various European and Latin American cultures.
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B.
Caterina
Caterina is an Italian given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly used for women in Italian-speaking and related cultures.
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C.
Luisa
Luisa is a feminine given name used in various languages, particularly Romance languages, as a form of the name Louise.
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D.
Paola
Paola is an Italian noblewoman who became Queen consort of Belgium as the wife of King Albert II.
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E.
Minervina
Minervina was the first wife or consort of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, known primarily as the mother of his son Crispus.
- 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: Roxana Target entity description: Roxana is a feminine given name of Persian origin, historically associated with figures such as the wife of Alexander the Great and later borne by various notable women.
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A.
Clementina
Clementina is a feminine given name, often considered a variant of Clementine, used in various European and Latin American cultures.
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B.
Caterina
Caterina is an Italian given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly used for women in Italian-speaking and related cultures.
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C.
Luisa
Luisa is a feminine given name used in various languages, particularly Romance languages, as a form of the name Louise.
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D.
Paola
Paola is an Italian noblewoman who became Queen consort of Belgium as the wife of King Albert II.
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E.
Minervina
Minervina was the first wife or consort of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, known primarily as the mother of his son Crispus.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling |
Roxana
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Roxsana
Roxana self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Roxána
|
| hasCategory |
Feminine given names
ⓘ
Persian feminine given names ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Hellenistic history
ⓘ
Persian culture ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRoot | Old Persian or Bactrian form related to "Roshanak" ⓘ |
| hasMeaningRelatedTo |
bright
ⓘ
dawn ⓘ |
| hasNameDayInSomeTraditions | varies by country ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Persia
ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ |
| hasPopularity | moderate in various countries ⓘ |
| hasScriptForm | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasTransliterationFrom | Persian name "Roxane" / "Roxana" ⓘ |
| hasUsageType | personal name ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Roksana
ⓘ
Roxane ⓘ Roxana self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Roxanna
Roxanne ⓘ Rukhsana ⓘ |
| isCognateWith |
Roxane
ⓘ
Roxanne ⓘ Rukhsana ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
Roxane
ⓘ
surface form:
Roxane (as a specific spelling)
Roxanne ⓘ
surface form:
Roxanne (as a specific spelling)
|
| isHistoricallyAssociatedWith |
Roxana
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great
Bactria ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Bactria
|
| isRelatedToName | Roshanak ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | first name ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
English language
ⓘ
Italian language ⓘ Portuguese language ⓘ Romanian language ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
surface form:
Spanish language
various European languages ⓘ |
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: Roxana Description of subject: Roxana is a feminine given name of Persian origin, historically associated with figures such as the wife of Alexander the Great and later borne by various notable women.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Roxanna
this entity surface form:
Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great
this entity surface form:
Roxána
this entity surface form:
Roxsana
this entity surface form:
Roxana of Bactria
this entity surface form:
Farangis
this entity surface form:
Roxana (Latinized form)
subject surface form:
Alexander IV of Macedon