What do I call a generalization of a fork?

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In Category Theory, we call a fork a diagram

$$X\xrightarrow{\;e\;}A\begin{array}{c} \xrightarrow{\;f\;}\\ \xrightarrow[\;g\;]{} \end{array}B$$

that commutes, i.e. $f \circ e = g \circ e$.

  1. In this context, what can we call $e$? Is there a proper name for it? I know it is not necessarily an equalizer of $f$ and $g$.

  2. What would I call a generalization of this concept in the following sense: given objects $A$ and $B$, a non-empty subset $H \subseteq Hom(A,B)$ and a morphism $e : X \rightarrow A$, we have that

    $$\forall f,\, g\, \in H.\, f \circ e = g \circ e$$

In particular, I am interested in the case where $H$ is the set of isomorphisms between $A$ and $B$.