John son of Zebedee
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John son of Zebedee was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of John, three New Testament epistles, and the Book of Revelation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John son of Zebedee canonical | 14 |
| John the son of Zebedee | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1358524 — 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: John son of Zebedee Context triple: [Apostles, member, John son of Zebedee]
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Apostle James the Greater
Apostle James the Greater was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, traditionally regarded as the son of Zebedee and brother of John, and is venerated as the patron saint of pilgrims, especially associated with the shrine of Santiago de Compostela.
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Thomas Didymus
Thomas Didymus is a Christian apostle traditionally known as "Doubting Thomas" for initially questioning Jesus' resurrection before professing strong faith.
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Apostle James the Less
Apostle James the Less is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, traditionally identified as the son of Alphaeus and remembered as a close disciple present at key events in Jesus’ ministry.
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Barnabas the Apostle
Barnabas the Apostle was an early Christian disciple and missionary companion of Paul, traditionally regarded as a prominent leader in the first-century Church and a key figure in the spread of Christianity.
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Apostle Peter
Apostle Peter was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples and a foundational leader of the early Christian Church, traditionally regarded as the first Pope.
- 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: John son of Zebedee Target entity description: John son of Zebedee was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of John, three New Testament epistles, and the Book of Revelation.
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A.
Apostle James the Greater
Apostle James the Greater was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, traditionally regarded as the son of Zebedee and brother of John, and is venerated as the patron saint of pilgrims, especially associated with the shrine of Santiago de Compostela.
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B.
Thomas Didymus
Thomas Didymus is a Christian apostle traditionally known as "Doubting Thomas" for initially questioning Jesus' resurrection before professing strong faith.
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C.
Apostle James the Less
Apostle James the Less is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, traditionally identified as the son of Alphaeus and remembered as a close disciple present at key events in Jesus’ ministry.
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D.
Barnabas the Apostle
Barnabas the Apostle was an early Christian disciple and missionary companion of Paul, traditionally regarded as a prominent leader in the first-century Church and a key figure in the spread of Christianity.
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E.
Apostle Peter
Apostle Peter was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples and a foundational leader of the early Christian Church, traditionally regarded as the first Pope.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: John son of Zebedee Description of subject: John son of Zebedee was one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles, traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of John, three New Testament epistles, and the Book of Revelation.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John son of Zebedee
linked to: John son of Zebedee
subject linked to:
the twelve
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Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form)
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Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form)
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sons of thunder
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fisher of men