Ragan
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Ragan is a given name and surname that serves as a spelling variant of Reagan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ragan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10585011 — 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: Ragan Context triple: [Reagan, hasVariant, Ragan]
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A.
Randolf
Randolf is a surname most notably associated with Danish-American silent film actor Anders Randolf.
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B.
Arvin
Arvin is a small agricultural city in Southern California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its farming economy and diverse rural community.
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C.
Rogan
Rogan is a surname of Irish origin that is borne by various notable individuals across different fields.
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D.
Rinaldi
Rinaldi is the jovial, womanizing Italian army surgeon and close friend of Frederic Henry in Ernest Hemingway’s novel "A Farewell to Arms."
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E.
Astin
Astin is the surname of American actor and filmmaker Sean Astin, known for roles in films such as "The Goonies," "Rudy," and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
- 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: Ragan Target entity description: Ragan is a given name and surname that serves as a spelling variant of Reagan.
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A.
Randolf
Randolf is a surname most notably associated with Danish-American silent film actor Anders Randolf.
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B.
Arvin
Arvin is a small agricultural city in Southern California’s San Joaquin Valley, known for its farming economy and diverse rural community.
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C.
Rogan
Rogan is a surname of Irish origin that is borne by various notable individuals across different fields.
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D.
Rinaldi
Rinaldi is the jovial, womanizing Italian army surgeon and close friend of Frederic Henry in Ernest Hemingway’s novel "A Farewell to Arms."
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E.
Astin
Astin is the surname of American actor and filmmaker Sean Astin, known for roles in films such as "The Goonies," "Rudy," and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeSpelling | Reagan ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRelation | Reagan ⓘ |
| hasGender | unisex ⓘ |
| hasNameCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
English-language unisex given names ⓘ |
| hasNameType |
family name
ⓘ
personal name ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Irish ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariant | Reagan ⓘ |
| hasUsage |
given name in the United States
ⓘ
surname in English-speaking countries ⓘ surname in the United States ⓘ |
| isAnglicizedFormOf | Irish surnames related to Ó Riagáin ⓘ |
| isRelatedName | Regan ⓘ |
| isRomanizationOf | Irish-language surname related to Ó Riagáin ⓘ |
| isUsedAs |
feminine given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
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: Ragan Description of subject: Ragan is a given name and surname that serves as a spelling variant of Reagan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.