Al-Maghtas
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Al-Maghtas is an archaeological and religious site on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River, widely venerated as the location of Jesus’ baptism and a major Christian pilgrimage destination.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Al-Maghtas canonical | 6 |
| Al-Maghtas area near the Jordan River | 1 |
| موقع المعمودية في الأردن (بيت عنيا عبر الأردن) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1123526 — 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: Al-Maghtas Context triple: [Qasr al-Yahud, hasOppositeBankSite, Al-Maghtas]
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A.
Jerash
Jerash is an ancient city in northern Jordan renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman ruins and monumental colonnaded streets.
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B.
Qumran
Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank best known for its ancient ruins and its association with the nearby caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
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C.
Ṭarābulus
Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
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D.
Caesarea in Cappadocia
Caesarea in Cappadocia was the principal city of the Roman province of Cappadocia in central Anatolia, serving as an important administrative, commercial, and early Christian intellectual center.
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E.
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was an ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of several of Jesus’s apostles in the New Testament.
- 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: Al-Maghtas Target entity description: Al-Maghtas is an archaeological and religious site on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River, widely venerated as the location of Jesus’ baptism and a major Christian pilgrimage destination.
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A.
Jerash
Jerash is an ancient city in northern Jordan renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman ruins and monumental colonnaded streets.
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B.
Qumran
Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank best known for its ancient ruins and its association with the nearby caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
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C.
Ṭarābulus
Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
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D.
Caesarea in Cappadocia
Caesarea in Cappadocia was the principal city of the Roman province of Cappadocia in central Anatolia, serving as an important administrative, commercial, and early Christian intellectual center.
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E.
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was an ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of several of Jesus’s apostles in the New Testament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian pilgrimage site
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ religious site ⓘ |
| altName |
Baptism Site
ⓘ
Bethabara (traditional identification) ⓘ Bethany Beyond the Jordan ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Jesus of Nazareth
ⓘ
linked to:
Jesus Christ
John the Baptist ⓘ |
| climate | arid ⓘ |
| country | Jordan ⓘ |
| distanceToDeadSea | approximately 9 km north of the Dead Sea ⓘ |
| eraOfMajorRemains |
Byzantine period
ⓘ
Roman period ⓘ early Islamic period ⓘ |
| governedBy | Jordanian authorities ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalEvidenceFrom |
1st century CE
ⓘ
Byzantine monastic period ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
Bethany Beyond the Jordan
ⓘ
Jabal Mar-Elias ⓘ baptismal pools ⓘ monastic complexes ⓘ pilgrim shelters ⓘ remains of early Christian churches ⓘ water channels ⓘ |
| hasHeritageDesignation | UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| hasTourismInfrastructure |
marked pilgrimage routes
ⓘ
visitor center ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Jordan Valley ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity | Balqa Governorate ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
Jordan River
ⓘ
east bank of the Jordan River ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | New Testament tradition of Bethany beyond the Jordan ⓘ |
| near |
Dead Sea
ⓘ
Jericho ⓘ |
| openToPublic | true ⓘ |
| partOf | Christian Holy Land pilgrimage network ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | various Christian denominations ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| significance |
associated with John the Baptist
ⓘ
traditional site of the baptism of Jesus ⓘ |
| terrain | riverine floodplain ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageCriteria |
(iii)
ⓘ
(vi) ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageListingYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageRegion |
Arab States
ⓘ
linked to:
Arab world
|
| UNESCOWorldHeritageStateParty | Jordan ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageStatus | World Heritage Site ⓘ |
| usedAs |
baptism site
ⓘ
pilgrimage destination ⓘ |
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: Al-Maghtas Description of subject: Al-Maghtas is an archaeological and religious site on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River, widely venerated as the location of Jesus’ baptism and a major Christian pilgrimage destination.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Al-Maghtas
linked to: Al-Maghtas