Agnes
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Agnes is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "pure" or "chaste," historically popular in various European cultures and Christian traditions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Agnes canonical | 39 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T673703 — 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: Agnes Context triple: [Agnes de Mille, givenName, Agnes]
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A.
Agnes Carpenter
Agnes Carpenter was the wife of American film director and screenwriter Samuel Fuller.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Martha
Martha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Eliza Harris
Eliza Harris is a courageous enslaved woman in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," best known for her dramatic escape across the frozen Ohio River to save her child from being sold.
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E.
Maria Clemm
Maria Clemm was the aunt and mother-in-law of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who served as his close companion and caretaker for much of his adult life.
- 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: Agnes Target entity description: Agnes is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "pure" or "chaste," historically popular in various European cultures and Christian traditions.
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A.
Agnes Carpenter
Agnes Carpenter was the wife of American film director and screenwriter Samuel Fuller.
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B.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Martha
Martha is a feminine given name of Aramaic origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Martha Washington, the first First Lady of the United States.
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D.
Eliza Harris
Eliza Harris is a courageous enslaved woman in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin," best known for her dramatic escape across the frozen Ohio River to save her child from being sold.
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E.
Maria Clemm
Maria Clemm was the aunt and mother-in-law of American writer Edgar Allan Poe, who served as his close companion and caretaker for much of his adult life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Saint Agnes of Rome ⓘ |
| derivedFrom | Greek word hagnos ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Christian given names
ⓘ
English feminine given names ⓘ Greek feminine given names ⓘ feminine given names ⓘ |
| hasDiminutive |
Aggie
ⓘ
Loch Ness Monster ⓘ
surface form:
Nessie
|
| hasEtymology | Greek name Hagnē ⓘ |
| hasGender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
chaste
ⓘ
pure ⓘ |
| hasOrigin | Greek language ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Agnese
ⓘ
Agneta ⓘ Agnieszka ⓘ Renée ⓘ
surface form:
Agnès
Ines ⓘ Inés ⓘ Inês ⓘ |
| nameDayIn | January 21 ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Christian traditions
ⓘ
European cultures ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Polish ⓘ Scandinavian languages ⓘ |
| wasPopularIn |
19th century
ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Agnes Description of subject: Agnes is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "pure" or "chaste," historically popular in various European cultures and Christian traditions.
Referenced by (39)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hurricane Agnes (1972)