Tangere
E863086
Tangere is a Latin verb meaning "to touch," famously used in the biblical phrase "Noli me tangere" ("Do not touch me").
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tangere canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10439833 — 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: Tangere Context triple: [Noli Me Tangere, containsWord, Tangere]
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A.
Tengatangi
Tengatangi is a small village settlement located on the island of Atiu in the Cook Islands.
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B.
Taygi
Taygi is a lesser-known Samoyedic language of the Uralic family traditionally spoken by an indigenous group in northern Siberia.
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C.
Tiba
Tiba is a modern planned city in Egypt’s Luxor Governorate, developed to accommodate population growth and support regional economic and urban expansion.
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D.
Sepetiba
Sepetiba is a coastal neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro known for its bay, fishing activities, and industrial port area.
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E.
Tucheim
Tucheim is a village and former municipality that is now part of the town of Genthin in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
- 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: Tangere
Target entity description: Tangere is a Latin verb meaning "to touch," famously used in the biblical phrase "Noli me tangere" ("Do not touch me").
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A.
Tengatangi
Tengatangi is a small village settlement located on the island of Atiu in the Cook Islands.
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B.
Taygi
Taygi is a lesser-known Samoyedic language of the Uralic family traditionally spoken by an indigenous group in northern Siberia.
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C.
Tiba
Tiba is a modern planned city in Egypt’s Luxor Governorate, developed to accommodate population growth and support regional economic and urban expansion.
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D.
Sepetiba
Sepetiba is a coastal neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro known for its bay, fishing activities, and industrial port area.
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E.
Tucheim
Tucheim is a village and former municipality that is now part of the town of Genthin in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Latin verb ⓘ |
| aspect | imperfective ⓘ |
| basicSense | to touch physically ⓘ |
| conjugationClass | third conjugation ⓘ |
| constructionInPhraseNoliMeTangere | prohibitive with noli plus infinitive ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Proto-Indo-European *tag- (to touch, handle) ⓘ |
| extendedSense |
to affect
ⓘ
to concern ⓘ to mention ⓘ |
| famousUsage |
Noli me tangere
ⓘ
linked to:
Noli Me Tangere
|
| famousUsageAddressee | Mary Magdalene ⓘ |
| famousUsageContext | biblical phrase ⓘ |
| famousUsageLanguage |
Latin Vulgate
ⓘ
linked to:
Vulgate
|
| famousUsageSourceText |
Gospel of John 20:17
ⓘ
linked to:
Gospel of John 20:19–31
|
| famousUsageSpeaker | Jesus ⓘ |
| famousUsageTranslation | Do not touch me ⓘ |
| infinitiveForm | tangere ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| meaningInEnglish | to touch ⓘ |
| moodInPhraseNoliMeTangere | infinitive ⓘ |
| orthography | tangere ⓘ |
| partOfSpeech | verb ⓘ |
| perfectStem | tetig- ⓘ |
| personConjugationExample |
tangis (2nd person singular present active indicative)
ⓘ
tangit (3rd person singular present active indicative) ⓘ tango (1st person singular present active indicative) ⓘ |
| presentActiveInfinitiveOf | tango ⓘ |
| principalPart |
tactum
ⓘ
tangere ⓘ tango ⓘ tetigi ⓘ |
| relatedAdjective | tactilis ⓘ |
| relatedEnglishDerivative |
contact
ⓘ
contiguous ⓘ tact ⓘ tactile ⓘ tangent ⓘ |
| relatedNoun | tactus ⓘ |
| rootForm | tang- ⓘ |
| semanticField |
physical contact
ⓘ
sensation ⓘ touch ⓘ |
| stressPattern | tángere ⓘ |
| supineStem | tact- ⓘ |
| syllableCount | 3 ⓘ |
| transitivity | transitive verb ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Classical Latin literature
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman literature
Medieval Latin texts ⓘ |
| voice | active ⓘ |
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: Tangere
Description of subject: Tangere is a Latin verb meaning "to touch," famously used in the biblical phrase "Noli me tangere" ("Do not touch me").
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.