Tribe of Manasseh
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The Tribe of Manasseh was one of the ancient Israelite tribes, traditionally descended from Manasseh, the eldest son of Joseph, and known for receiving a large inheritance partly on both sides of the Jordan River.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1269768 — 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 Manasseh Context triple: [Twelve Tribes of Israel, hasMember, Tribe of Manasseh]
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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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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.
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Tribe of Benjamin
The Tribe of Benjamin was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, historically located between Judah and the northern tribes and known for producing Israel’s first king, Saul.
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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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Tribe of Zebulun
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.
- 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 Manasseh Target entity description: The Tribe of Manasseh was one of the ancient Israelite tribes, traditionally descended from Manasseh, the eldest son of Joseph, and known for receiving a large inheritance partly on both sides of the Jordan River.
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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 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.
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C.
Tribe of Benjamin
The Tribe of Benjamin was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, historically located between Judah and the northern tribes and known for producing Israel’s first king, Saul.
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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 Zebulun
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (54)
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 Manasseh Description of subject: The Tribe of Manasseh was one of the ancient Israelite tribes, traditionally descended from Manasseh, the eldest son of Joseph, and known for receiving a large inheritance partly on both sides of the Jordan River.
Referenced by (54)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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tribe of Ephraim
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tribe of Ephraim
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tribe of Ephraim
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Tribe of Zebulun
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Tribe of Manasseh
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Benjamin
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Og king of Bashan
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"Children of Manasseh" in Hebrew
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