Shrine of the Book
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The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem that houses and displays the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient biblical manuscripts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shrine of the Book canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2024907 — 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: Shrine of the Book Context triple: [Israel Museum, hasPart, Shrine of the Book]
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A.
House of the Book
House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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B.
El libro de arena
El libro de arena is a collection of fantastical and philosophical short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges that explores infinity, identity, and the nature of reality.
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C.
The Jews of Silence
The Jews of Silence is a non-fiction work by Elie Wiesel that chronicles his 1965 journey to the Soviet Union and exposes the oppression and silencing of Soviet Jewry.
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D.
Salomon's House
Salomon's House is the fictional scientific research institution in Francis Bacon's utopian work "New Atlantis," envisioned as a prototype for organized, empirical inquiry and the advancement of knowledge.
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E.
Bir Hakeim
Bir Hakeim is a remote desert outpost in southeastern Libya, best known as the site of a major World War II battle between Free French forces and the Axis powers in 1942.
- 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: Shrine of the Book Target entity description: The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem that houses and displays the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient biblical manuscripts.
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A.
House of the Book
House of the Book is the former name of the historic Singer House, an iconic early 20th-century Art Nouveau building in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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B.
El libro de arena
El libro de arena is a collection of fantastical and philosophical short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges that explores infinity, identity, and the nature of reality.
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C.
The Jews of Silence
The Jews of Silence is a non-fiction work by Elie Wiesel that chronicles his 1965 journey to the Soviet Union and exposes the oppression and silencing of Soviet Jewry.
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D.
Salomon's House
Salomon's House is the fictional scientific research institution in Francis Bacon's utopian work "New Atlantis," envisioned as a prototype for organized, empirical inquiry and the advancement of knowledge.
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E.
Bir Hakeim
Bir Hakeim is a remote desert outpost in southeastern Libya, best known as the site of a major World War II battle between Free French forces and the Axis powers in 1942.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
exhibition pavilion
ⓘ
museum wing ⓘ |
| architect |
Armand Bartos
ⓘ
Frederick Kiesler ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | modernist architecture ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Qumran archaeological discoveries ⓘ |
| city | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| climateControl | yes ⓘ |
| collection |
Aleppo Codex (partial)
ⓘ
linked to:
Aleppo Codex fragments
Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran ⓘ
linked to:
Dead Sea Scrolls
Second Temple period manuscripts ⓘ medieval biblical manuscripts ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| culturalHeritage | Israeli national heritage site ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo |
display of Dead Sea Scrolls
ⓘ
preservation of ancient manuscripts ⓘ |
| designedFor | controlled lighting for manuscript preservation ⓘ |
| hasExhibit |
facsimile of the Great Isaiah Scroll
ⓘ
rotating display of original Dead Sea Scroll fragments ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
black basalt wall opposite the dome
ⓘ
white domed roof ⓘ |
| hasUndergroundSection | yes ⓘ |
| houses |
Dead Sea Scrolls
ⓘ
ancient biblical manuscripts ⓘ |
| languageOfExhibits |
Arabic
ⓘ
English ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Givat Ram neighborhood ⓘ |
| location | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| managedBy |
Israel Museum administration
ⓘ
linked to:
Israel Museum
|
| near |
Hebrew University Givat Ram campus
ⓘ
Knesset ⓘ |
| openingDate | 1965 ⓘ |
| owner | Israel Museum ⓘ |
| partOf | Israel Museum ⓘ |
| purpose |
long-term conservation of manuscripts
ⓘ
public exhibition of Dead Sea Scrolls ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Judaism ⓘ |
| significance | major center for display of Second Temple period texts ⓘ |
| subject |
history of the biblical text
ⓘ
transmission of the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| subjectOf | studies on Dead Sea Scrolls conservation ⓘ |
| symbolism |
black wall symbolizes Sons of Darkness
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white dome symbolizes Sons of Light ⓘ |
| touristAttraction | yes ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Shrine of the Book Description of subject: The Shrine of the Book is a wing of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem that houses and displays the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient biblical manuscripts.
Referenced by (5)
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