Reginald
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Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reginald canonical | 48 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T532568 — 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: Reginald Context triple: [Reginald Dyer, givenName, Reginald]
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A.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
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B.
Laurence
Laurence is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Gerald
Gerald is the birth name of Jerry Brown, the longtime Democratic politician and former governor of California.
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D.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
Ralph Stackpole
Ralph Stackpole was an American sculptor and painter associated with the San Francisco art scene, known for his public works and contributions to New Deal–era projects.
- 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: Reginald Target entity description: Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
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A.
Harold
Harold is a masculine given name of Old English origin, historically borne by several notable figures including kings and modern public personalities.
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B.
Laurence
Laurence is a masculine given name of Latin origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Gerald
Gerald is the birth name of Jerry Brown, the longtime Democratic politician and former governor of California.
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D.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
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E.
Ralph Stackpole
Ralph Stackpole was an American sculptor and painter associated with the San Francisco art scene, known for his public works and contributions to New Deal–era projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| etymologicalOriginLanguage | Old High German ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Reg
ⓘ
Reggie ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearers |
artists
ⓘ
military officers ⓘ politicians ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearersInField |
arts
ⓘ
military ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| hasOriginInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Reinold
ⓘ
Reynolds ⓘ
surface form:
Reynold
|
| isGivenNameFor | humans ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameCategory |
English-language masculine given names
ⓘ
masculine given names ⓘ |
| nameType | given name ⓘ |
| shortForm |
Reg
ⓘ
Reggie ⓘ |
| usage | male ⓘ |
| 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: Reginald Description of subject: Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Reginald Dyer
subject surface form:
Reginald H. Jones
subject surface form:
Reginald Pole-Carew
subject surface form:
Reginald F. Lewis
subject surface form:
Reginald Bacon