Ján
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Ján is a common Slovak male given name, equivalent to "John" in English.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ján canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11507565 — 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: Ján Context triple: [Ján Golian, givenName, Ján]
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A.
Jozef
Jozef is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Central and Eastern Europe as a variant of Joseph.
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B.
János
János is the Hungarian form of the given name John, commonly used in Hungary and among Hungarian speakers.
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C.
Štefan
Štefan is the Slovak form of the given name Stephen, commonly used in Slovakia and other Slovak-speaking communities.
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D.
Juraj Jakubisko
Juraj Jakubisko was a renowned Slovak film director celebrated for his visually poetic, surreal, and often politically charged films that made him one of Central Europe’s most distinctive auteurs.
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E.
Ján Still
Ján Still was a 19th-century Slovak mountaineer and priest known for making the first recorded ascent of Gerlachovský štít, the highest peak in the High Tatras and the Carpathians.
- 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: Ján Target entity description: Ján is a common Slovak male given name, equivalent to "John" in English.
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A.
Jozef
Jozef is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Central and Eastern Europe as a variant of Joseph.
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B.
János
János is the Hungarian form of the given name John, commonly used in Hungary and among Hungarian speakers.
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C.
Štefan
Štefan is the Slovak form of the given name Stephen, commonly used in Slovakia and other Slovak-speaking communities.
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D.
Juraj Jakubisko
Juraj Jakubisko was a renowned Slovak film director celebrated for his visually poetic, surreal, and often politically charged films that made him one of Central Europe’s most distinctive auteurs.
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E.
Ján Still
Ján Still was a 19th-century Slovak mountaineer and priest known for making the first recorded ascent of Gerlachovský štít, the highest peak in the High Tatras and the Carpathians.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Slovak given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ male given name ⓘ |
| associatedWithBiblicalFigure |
John the Apostle
ⓘ
linked to:
Apostle John
John the Baptist ⓘ |
| category |
Masculine given names
ⓘ
Slovak masculine given names ⓘ |
| commonIn | Slovak-speaking populations ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Ioannes
ⓘ
linked to:
Ioannis
|
| derivedFromLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| equivalentNameInEnglish | John ⓘ |
| etymologicalRootMeaning | grace ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasDiacritic | á ⓘ |
| hasDiminutiveForm |
Janko
ⓘ
Jano ⓘ |
| hasFirstLetter | J ⓘ |
| hasLastLetter | n ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Ivan
ⓘ
Jan ⓘ Johann ⓘ János ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Slovak ⓘ |
| meaning | Yahweh is gracious ⓘ |
| nameDayInSlovakia | June 24 ⓘ |
| numberOfLetters | 3 ⓘ |
| religiousUsage | common Christian name ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| ultimatelyDerivedFrom | Yohanan ⓘ |
| ultimatelyDerivedFromLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Czech Republic
ⓘ
Slovakia ⓘ |
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: Ján Description of subject: Ján is a common Slovak male given name, equivalent to "John" in English.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.