Twelve Tribes of Israel
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The Twelve Tribes of Israel are the traditional divisions of the ancient Israelite people, each descended from one of the twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T113701 — 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: Twelve Tribes of Israel Context triple: [Hebrews, associatedWith, Twelve Tribes of Israel]
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Return to Zion
Return to Zion refers to the period and movement in which Jewish exiles returned from Babylon to their ancestral homeland and rebuilt their religious and communal life, including the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
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New Heaven and New Earth
New Heaven and New Earth is a biblical eschatological concept describing the renewed, perfected creation that God will establish at the end of time following Christ’s return.
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The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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Am Yisrael
Am Yisrael is the traditional Hebrew term referring to the collective people of Israel, encompassing the Jewish nation across history, land, religion, and shared destiny.
- 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: Twelve Tribes of Israel Target entity description: The Twelve Tribes of Israel are the traditional divisions of the ancient Israelite people, each descended from one of the twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob.
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A.
Return to Zion
Return to Zion refers to the period and movement in which Jewish exiles returned from Babylon to their ancestral homeland and rebuilt their religious and communal life, including the restoration of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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B.
Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
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C.
New Heaven and New Earth
New Heaven and New Earth is a biblical eschatological concept describing the renewed, perfected creation that God will establish at the end of time following Christ’s return.
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D.
The Elders
The Elders is an independent group of global leaders founded by Nelson Mandela to promote peace, human rights, and ethical leadership worldwide.
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E.
Am Yisrael
Am Yisrael is the traditional Hebrew term referring to the collective people of Israel, encompassing the Jewish nation across history, land, religion, and shared destiny.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Twelve Tribes of Israel Description of subject: The Twelve Tribes of Israel are the traditional divisions of the ancient Israelite people, each descended from one of the twelve sons of the biblical patriarch Jacob.
Referenced by (49)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Tribe of Naftali (in some traditions)
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tribe of Ephraim
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זְבֻלוּן
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biblical patriarch Isaac
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ראובן
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