מְדָן
E252806
מְדָן הוא אחד מבניו של אברהם מהפילגש קטורה המוזכרים בתנ"ך.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| מְדָן canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2307611 — 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: מְדָן Context triple: [Medan, nameVariant, מְדָן]
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A.
Haran
Haran is an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia known from the Hebrew Bible as a key dwelling place of the patriarch Abraham before his journey to Canaan.
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B.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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C.
Jericho
Jericho is an ancient city in the West Bank, often regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world and noted for its biblical significance.
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D.
Shechem
Shechem was an important ancient city in the central highlands of Canaan, serving as a significant political and religious center in biblical times.
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E.
Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
- 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: מְדָן Target entity description: מְדָן הוא אחד מבניו של אברהם מהפילגש קטורה המוזכרים בתנ"ך.
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A.
Haran
Haran is an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia known from the Hebrew Bible as a key dwelling place of the patriarch Abraham before his journey to Canaan.
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B.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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C.
Jericho
Jericho is an ancient city in the West Bank, often regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world and noted for its biblical significance.
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D.
Shechem
Shechem was an important ancient city in the central highlands of Canaan, serving as a significant political and religious center in biblical times.
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E.
Nippur
Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city in Mesopotamia that served as a major religious center dedicated to the god Enlil.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
אדם מקראי
ⓘ
בן של אברהם ⓘ דמות מקראית ⓘ צאצא של אברהם ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | בראשית כ"ה ⓘ |
| biblicalGenealogyRole | בן משושלת אברהם מקטורה ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | דמות מקראית משנית ⓘ |
| childOf |
אברהם
ⓘ
קטורה ⓘ |
| describedAs |
אחד מבני הפילגש קטורה
ⓘ
בן קטורה ⓘ |
| gender | זכר ⓘ |
| hasFather | אברהם ⓘ |
| hasMother | קטורה ⓘ |
| languageOfName | עברית ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
התנ"ך
ⓘ
ספר בראשית ⓘ |
| partOfNarrative | סיפורי האבות ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
אסלאם
ⓘ
יהדות ⓘ נצרות ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
זִמְרָן
ⓘ
יִשְׁבָּק ⓘ
linked to:
יִשְׁבָּק
יָקְשָׁן ⓘ
linked to:
Yakhin
מִדְיָן ⓘ
linked to:
Midian
שׁוּחַ ⓘ |
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: מְדָן Description of subject: מְדָן הוא אחד מבניו של אברהם מהפילגש קטורה המוזכרים בתנ"ך.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.