Manasseh
E152129
Manasseh is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s son Manasseh and associated with territory on both sides of the Jordan River.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Manasseh canonical | 13 |
| Manasseh son of Joseph | 3 |
| Eastern Manasseh | 1 |
| Western Manasseh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1309264 — 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: Manasseh Context triple: [Blessing of Moses, addressesTribe, Manasseh]
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A.
Manasseh, king of Judah
Manasseh, king of Judah, was a biblical monarch known for his long reign, notorious idolatry and later repentance as recounted in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Josiah
Josiah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, known for his religious reforms and efforts to restore the worship of Yahweh.
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C.
King of Judah
The King of Judah was the monarchic ruler of the ancient southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, centered in Jerusalem, during the period of the divided monarchy and subsequent vassalage to foreign empires.
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D.
Jekonias
Jekonias is an alternate name for Jehoiachin, a king of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
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E.
Jehoiakim
Jehoiakim was a king of Judah in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BCE, known from the Hebrew Bible for his troubled reign under Egyptian and then Babylonian domination.
- 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: Manasseh Target entity description: Manasseh is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s son Manasseh and associated with territory on both sides of the Jordan River.
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A.
Manasseh, king of Judah
Manasseh, king of Judah, was a biblical monarch known for his long reign, notorious idolatry and later repentance as recounted in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Josiah
Josiah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, known for his religious reforms and efforts to restore the worship of Yahweh.
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C.
King of Judah
The King of Judah was the monarchic ruler of the ancient southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, centered in Jerusalem, during the period of the divided monarchy and subsequent vassalage to foreign empires.
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D.
Jekonias
Jekonias is an alternate name for Jehoiachin, a king of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
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E.
Jehoiakim
Jehoiakim was a king of Judah in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BCE, known from the Hebrew Bible for his troubled reign under Egyptian and then Babylonian domination.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Manasseh Description of subject: Manasseh is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s son Manasseh and associated with territory on both sides of the Jordan River.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
tribe of Ephraim
linked to: Manasseh
linked to: Manasseh
linked to: Manasseh
linked to: Manasseh
linked to: Manasseh
subject linked to:
Tribe of Manasseh