Covenant Code
E19184
ancient Near Eastern law collection
biblical law code
legal text
part of the Hebrew Bible
part of the Torah
The Covenant Code is an early collection of ancient Israelite laws in the Hebrew Bible that outlines civil, ethical, and religious regulations for the community.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Covenant Code canonical | 6 |
| Covenant code | 1 |
| Law of the Covenant | 1 |
| Sinai covenant | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T158866 — 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: Covenant Code Context triple: [Book of Exodus, significantLawSection, Covenant Code]
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A.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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B.
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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C.
Twelve Tribes of Israel
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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D.
Sinews of Peace
Sinews of Peace is the 1946 speech by Winston Churchill, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, that famously introduced the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the division of postwar Europe.
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E.
Savior
Savior is a Christian title for Jesus Christ, emphasizing his role as the divine redeemer who delivers humanity from sin and spiritual death.
- 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: Covenant Code Target entity description: The Covenant Code is an early collection of ancient Israelite laws in the Hebrew Bible that outlines civil, ethical, and religious regulations for the community.
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A.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
-
B.
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.
-
C.
Twelve Tribes of Israel
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.
-
D.
Sinews of Peace
Sinews of Peace is the 1946 speech by Winston Churchill, delivered in Fulton, Missouri, that famously introduced the term "Iron Curtain" to describe the division of postwar Europe.
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E.
Savior
Savior is a Christian title for Jesus Christ, emphasizing his role as the divine redeemer who delivers humanity from sin and spiritual death.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Near Eastern law collection
ⓘ
biblical law code ⓘ legal text ⓘ part of the Hebrew Bible ⓘ part of the Torah ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Book of the Covenant
ⓘ
linked to:
Revelation at Mount Sinai
Law of the Covenant ⓘ
linked to:
Covenant Code
|
| comparedWith |
Code of Hammurabi
ⓘ
Deuteronomic Code ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Deuteronomy
Holiness Code ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Leviticus
|
| containsLawOn |
bribery and justice
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festivals of Unleavened Bread, Harvest, and Ingathering ⓘ goring ox ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ loan and interest practices ⓘ pledges and collateral ⓘ sorcery ⓘ theft ⓘ treatment of foreigners ⓘ treatment of widows and orphans ⓘ |
| dateOfComposition | Iron Age I–II (approximate scholarly estimate) ⓘ |
| followsInText | Decalogue ⓘ |
| foundInCanon |
Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
linked to:
Protestant Bible
Jewish Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| hasLegalPrinciple | lex talionis ⓘ |
| hasPart |
civil laws
ⓘ
ethical laws ⓘ religious laws ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
covenant loyalty
ⓘ
cultic regulations ⓘ family law ⓘ festivals ⓘ idolatry prohibitions ⓘ judicial procedure ⓘ property law ⓘ protection of the vulnerable ⓘ restitution ⓘ sabbath observance ⓘ sacrificial practices ⓘ slavery regulations ⓘ social justice ⓘ violence and injury laws ⓘ |
| influencedBy | ancient Near Eastern legal traditions ⓘ |
| language | Biblical Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedInText | Exodus 20:22–23:33 ⓘ |
| partOf | Book of Exodus ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| traditionallyAttributedTo | Moses ⓘ |
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: Covenant Code Description of subject: The Covenant Code is an early collection of ancient Israelite laws in the Hebrew Bible that outlines civil, ethical, and religious regulations for the community.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Jewish feast of Shavuot
linked to: Covenant Code
linked to: Covenant Code
linked to: Covenant Code