Gematria
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Gematria is a traditional Jewish numerological system that assigns numerical values to letters and words to uncover hidden meanings and connections in sacred texts.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gematria canonical | 3 |
| Bible code | 2 |
| "Lag" from Hebrew letters lamed and gimel equaling 33 | 1 |
| Greek isopsephy | 1 |
| Hebrew gematria | 1 |
| Neopythagorean numerology | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T158669 — 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: Gematria Context triple: [Kabbalah, usesMethod, Gematria]
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A.
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet is an ancient consonant-based writing system used primarily for Hebrew and several other Jewish languages, including Judeo-Arabic and Yiddish.
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B.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
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C.
Oscan alphabet
The Oscan alphabet is an ancient writing system used by the Oscan-speaking peoples of pre-Roman Italy to record their language, derived from and closely related to other Old Italic scripts.
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D.
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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E.
Am Segula
Am Segula is a Hebrew term referring to the Jewish people as a "treasured" or "chosen" nation with a special covenantal relationship to God.
- 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: Gematria Target entity description: Gematria is a traditional Jewish numerological system that assigns numerical values to letters and words to uncover hidden meanings and connections in sacred texts.
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A.
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet is an ancient consonant-based writing system used primarily for Hebrew and several other Jewish languages, including Judeo-Arabic and Yiddish.
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B.
Ruqʿah script
Ruqʿah script is a simple, highly legible Arabic handwriting style commonly used for everyday writing and official documents in the Arab world.
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C.
Oscan alphabet
The Oscan alphabet is an ancient writing system used by the Oscan-speaking peoples of pre-Roman Italy to record their language, derived from and closely related to other Old Italic scripts.
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D.
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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E.
Am Segula
Am Segula is a Hebrew term referring to the Jewish people as a "treasured" or "chosen" nation with a special covenantal relationship to God.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish numerological system
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alphanumeric code ⓘ hermeneutic technique ⓘ method of biblical exegesis ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
Aramaic alphabet
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linked to:
Aramaic alphabet (historically)
Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| assumes | Torah contains hidden layers of meaning ⓘ |
| basedOn | assignment of numerical values to letters ⓘ |
| categoryWithinPaRDeS | remez ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | peshat (plain meaning) interpretation ⓘ |
| criticizedAs | speculative ⓘ |
| defendedAs | traditional tool of interpretation ⓘ |
| developedIn |
medieval Kabbalistic texts
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rabbinic literature ⓘ |
| formalizedIn |
Sefer Yetzirah traditions
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Zohar ⓘ |
| hasExample | equating words like "Mashiach" and other terms with same value ⓘ |
| hasMethod |
assigning 1–9, 10–90, 100–400 to Hebrew letters
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summing letter values of words and phrases ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Atbash-based systems
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Mispar gadol ⓘ Mispar katan ⓘ Ordinal gematria ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hasidic teachings
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Jewish liturgical poetry ⓘ Jewish magical and amuletic practices ⓘ |
| languageOfApplication |
Aramaic
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Midrash
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Talmud ⓘ |
| originatedIn | ancient Jewish interpretive traditions ⓘ |
| partOf | PaRDeS fourfold interpretive scheme ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Kabbalistic sefirot symbolism
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isopsephy ⓘ numerology ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Jewish mystics
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linked to:
Merkavah mysticism
kabbalists ⓘ rabbis ⓘ |
| usedFor |
drawing connections between words and phrases
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finding hidden meanings in sacred texts ⓘ interpreting Hebrew Bible ⓘ mystical speculation ⓘ sermonic and homiletic interpretation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Jewish mysticism
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Judaism ⓘ Kabbalah ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
equivalence of words with same numerical value
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symbolic significance of numbers ⓘ |
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: Gematria Description of subject: Gematria is a traditional Jewish numerological system that assigns numerical values to letters and words to uncover hidden meanings and connections in sacred texts.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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