Magdalen
E876494
Magdalen is a feminine given name of biblical origin, most commonly associated with Mary Magdalene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Magdalen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10639048 — 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: Magdalen Context triple: [Magdalen Haliburton, givenName, Magdalen]
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A.
Magdalen Carnegie
Magdalen Carnegie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, a prominent Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Oriel
Oriel is the commonly used short name for Oriel College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.
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C.
Oriel
Oriel is a surname most notably associated with Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel, the late wife of British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
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D.
Radcliffe
Radcliffe is a town in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire and known for its industrial heritage along the River Irwell.
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E.
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
Magdalen Hall, Oxford was a historic academic hall of the University of Oxford that educated numerous notable figures before eventually becoming part of Hertford College.
- 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: Magdalen Target entity description: Magdalen is a feminine given name of biblical origin, most commonly associated with Mary Magdalene.
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A.
Magdalen Carnegie
Magdalen Carnegie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, a prominent Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Oriel
Oriel is a surname most notably associated with Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel, the late wife of British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
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C.
Oriel
Oriel is the commonly used short name for Oriel College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.
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D.
Radcliffe
Radcliffe is a town in Greater Manchester, England, historically part of Lancashire and known for its industrial heritage along the River Irwell.
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E.
Magdalen Hall, Oxford
Magdalen Hall, Oxford was a historic academic hall of the University of Oxford that educated numerous notable figures before eventually becoming part of Hertford College.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | feminine given name ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation |
devotion
ⓘ
penitence ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Hebrew name Migdal ⓘ |
| etymologicalSource | Magdalene ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English feminine given names
ⓘ
biblical given names ⓘ feminine given names ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUsage |
early modern England
ⓘ
medieval England ⓘ |
| hasNameDayTradition | Christian name day customs ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
biblical name ⓘ |
| hasRelatedName |
Maddalena
ⓘ
Madeleine ⓘ Madelon ⓘ Magdalena ⓘ Magdalene ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAssociation | Christianity ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Magda ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith | Mary Magdalene ⓘ |
| isLinkedTo |
Gospels
ⓘ
New Testament ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
Christians
ⓘ
linked to:
Christianity
|
| isUsedInContext | religious naming ⓘ |
| isVariantOf | Magdalene ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| meaning | of Magdala ⓘ |
| spellingVariantOf | Magdalene ⓘ |
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: Magdalen Description of subject: Magdalen is a feminine given name of biblical origin, most commonly associated with Mary Magdalene.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.