Yacob
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Yacob is the surname of Halimah Yacob, a prominent Singaporean politician and the country’s first female president.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yacob canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10350189 — 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: Yacob Context triple: [Halimah Yacob, familyName, Yacob]
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A.
יעקב
יעקב הוא אחד מאבות האומה המקראיים, דמות מרכזית בספר בראשית ואבי שנים-עשר שבטי ישראל.
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B.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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C.
Jacob
Jacob is the middle name of George Holyoake, a notable 19th-century English secularist and social reformer.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is the full first name of Jack Lew, the American attorney and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
- 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: Yacob Target entity description: Yacob is the surname of Halimah Yacob, a prominent Singaporean politician and the country’s first female president.
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A.
יעקב
יעקב הוא אחד מאבות האומה המקראיים, דמות מרכזית בספר בראשית ואבי שנים-עשר שבטי ישראל.
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B.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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C.
Jacob
Jacob is the middle name of George Holyoake, a notable 19th-century English secularist and social reformer.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is the full first name of Jack Lew, the American attorney and former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Halimah Yacob ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Arabic ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedBy | Halimah Yacob ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | Singapore ⓘ |
| variantOf |
Jacob
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Yaqub ⓘ |
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: Yacob Description of subject: Yacob is the surname of Halimah Yacob, a prominent Singaporean politician and the country’s first female president.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.