Tribe of Zebulun
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The Tribe of Zebulun was one of the ancient Israelite tribes traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Zebulun, associated with territory in the northern region of the Land of Israel.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tribe of Zebulun canonical | 21 |
| tribe of Zebulun | 6 |
| sons of Zebulun | 1 |
| tribes of Judah and Zebulun | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1269764 — 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: Tribe of Zebulun Context triple: [Twelve Tribes of Israel, hasMember, Tribe of Zebulun]
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A.
Tribe of Naphtali
The Tribe of Naphtali was one of the ancient Israelite tribes traditionally descended from Naphtali, a son of Jacob, and associated with a territory in the northern region of the Land of Israel.
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B.
Tribe of Issachar
The Tribe of Issachar was one of the ancient Israelite tribes, traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Issachar and noted in the Hebrew Bible for its wisdom and understanding of the times.
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C.
Tribe of Gad
The Tribe of Gad was one of the ancient Israelite tribes, traditionally descended from Gad son of Jacob, that settled east of the Jordan River and was known for its warrior reputation.
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D.
Tribe of Asher
The Tribe of Asher was one of the twelve tribes of ancient Israel, traditionally associated with a fertile coastal territory in the north and blessedness or prosperity in biblical texts.
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E.
Tribe of Reuben
The Tribe of Reuben was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Jacob’s eldest son Reuben and settled east of the Jordan River.
- 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: Tribe of Zebulun Target entity description: The Tribe of Zebulun was one of the ancient Israelite tribes traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Zebulun, associated with territory in the northern region of the Land of Israel.
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A.
Tribe of Naphtali
The Tribe of Naphtali was one of the ancient Israelite tribes traditionally descended from Naphtali, a son of Jacob, and associated with a territory in the northern region of the Land of Israel.
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B.
Tribe of Issachar
The Tribe of Issachar was one of the ancient Israelite tribes, traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Issachar and noted in the Hebrew Bible for its wisdom and understanding of the times.
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C.
Tribe of Gad
The Tribe of Gad was one of the ancient Israelite tribes, traditionally descended from Gad son of Jacob, that settled east of the Jordan River and was known for its warrior reputation.
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D.
Tribe of Asher
The Tribe of Asher was one of the twelve tribes of ancient Israel, traditionally associated with a fertile coastal territory in the north and blessedness or prosperity in biblical texts.
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E.
Tribe of Reuben
The Tribe of Reuben was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Jacob’s eldest son Reuben and settled east of the Jordan River.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Tribe of Zebulun Description of subject: The Tribe of Zebulun was one of the ancient Israelite tribes traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Zebulun, associated with territory in the northern region of the Land of Israel.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tribe of Naftali (in some traditions)
linked to: Tribe of Zebulun
subject linked to:
patriarch Jacob
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