Ephraim
E148887
Ephraim is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s younger son and known for its prominence in the northern kingdom.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ephraim canonical | 41 |
| forest of Ephraim | 2 |
| hill country of Ephraim | 2 |
| Ephraim (location context) | 1 |
| Ephraim (traditional association) | 1 |
| Ephrayim | 1 |
| region of Ephraim | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1309263 — 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: Ephraim Context triple: [Blessing of Moses, addressesTribe, Ephraim]
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A.
Bene Ephraim
Bene Ephraim are a small Telugu-speaking community in India that identifies as Jewish, tracing their origins to ancient Israelite ancestry and practicing a form of Judaism blended with local traditions.
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B.
Naphtali
Naphtali is one of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the traditional ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali.
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C.
Mahlon
Mahlon is a minor biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, known as one of Naomi’s sons and the first husband of Ruth.
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D.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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E.
Mount Ephraim
Mount Ephraim is a historic and affluent residential and commercial area in Royal Tunbridge Wells, known for its elevated position, period architecture, and views over the town and surrounding countryside.
- 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: Ephraim Target entity description: Ephraim is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s younger son and known for its prominence in the northern kingdom.
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A.
Bene Ephraim
Bene Ephraim are a small Telugu-speaking community in India that identifies as Jewish, tracing their origins to ancient Israelite ancestry and practicing a form of Judaism blended with local traditions.
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B.
Naphtali
Naphtali is one of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the traditional ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali.
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C.
Mahlon
Mahlon is a minor biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, known as one of Naomi’s sons and the first husband of Ruth.
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D.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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E.
Mount Ephraim
Mount Ephraim is a historic and affluent residential and commercial area in Royal Tunbridge Wells, known for its elevated position, period architecture, and views over the town and surrounding countryside.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ephraim Description of subject: Ephraim is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s younger son and known for its prominence in the northern kingdom.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
prophet Samuel in the Hebrew Bible
linked to: Ephraim
subject linked to:
tribe of Ephraim
subject linked to:
tribe of Ephraim
subject linked to:
tribe of Ephraim
linked to: Ephraim
subject linked to:
Micah
linked to: Ephraim
subject linked to:
Tribe of Manasseh
linked to: Ephraim
subject linked to:
house of Micah
linked to: Ephraim
linked to: Ephraim
subject linked to:
patriarch Joseph