Pirmin
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Pirmin is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss alpine ski legend Pirmin Zurbriggen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Pirmin canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9672966 — 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: Pirmin Context triple: [Pirmin Zurbriggen, givenName, Pirmin]
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A.
Prahasta
Prahasta is a powerful rakshasa commander in the Hindu epic Ramayana, serving as one of Ravana’s chief generals in the war against Rama.
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B.
Pervyse
Pervyse is a village in West Flanders, Belgium, known for its location on the World War I Yser Front and the heavy fighting that took place there.
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C.
Poronin
Poronin is a village in southern Poland’s Tatra region, known as a gateway to the Tatra Mountains and a base for tourism near Zakopane.
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D.
Firiplaka
Firiplaka is a scenic, volcanic-sand beach on the Greek island of Milos, known for its colorful cliffs and clear turquoise waters.
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E.
Peniel
Peniel is the biblical location where Jacob is said to have wrestled with a divine being and named the place as the face of God.
- 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: Pirmin Target entity description: Pirmin is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss alpine ski legend Pirmin Zurbriggen.
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A.
Prahasta
Prahasta is a powerful rakshasa commander in the Hindu epic Ramayana, serving as one of Ravana’s chief generals in the war against Rama.
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B.
Pervyse
Pervyse is a village in West Flanders, Belgium, known for its location on the World War I Yser Front and the heavy fighting that took place there.
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C.
Poronin
Poronin is a village in southern Poland’s Tatra region, known as a gateway to the Tatra Mountains and a base for tourism near Zakopane.
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D.
Firiplaka
Firiplaka is a scenic, volcanic-sand beach on the Greek island of Milos, known for its colorful cliffs and clear turquoise waters.
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E.
Peniel
Peniel is the biblical location where Jacob is said to have wrestled with a divine being and named the place as the face of God.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| category |
Germanic masculine given names
ⓘ
masculine given names ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Switzerland ⓘ |
| etymologicalLanguageFamily | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasGivenNameBearer | Pirmin Zurbriggen ⓘ |
| nameType | first name ⓘ |
| notability | Swiss alpine ski legend ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Pirmin Zurbriggen ⓘ |
| occupation | alpine skier ⓘ |
| origin | Germanic ⓘ |
| sport | alpine skiing ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Austria
ⓘ
German-speaking countries ⓘ
linked to:
German-speaking Europe
Germany ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
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: Pirmin Description of subject: Pirmin is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, notably borne by the Swiss alpine ski legend Pirmin Zurbriggen.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.