Terah
E266092
Terah is a biblical patriarch known as the father of Abraham and a descendant of Shem who lived in Mesopotamia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Terah canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2413580 — 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: Terah Context triple: [Haran, associatedWith, Terah]
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A.
Tera
Tera is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria by the Tera people.
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B.
Teron
Teron is one of the traditional clans of the Karbi people, an indigenous ethnic group primarily inhabiting the Karbi Anglong region of Assam in Northeast India.
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C.
Urana
Urana is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural surroundings and historic country character.
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D.
Terik
Terik is a Southern Nilotic language spoken by the Terik people of western Kenya, closely related to Nandi and other Kalenjin languages.
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E.
Tianeti
Tianeti is a small town and administrative center in eastern Georgia, situated in the mountainous Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.
- 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: Terah Target entity description: Terah is a biblical patriarch known as the father of Abraham and a descendant of Shem who lived in Mesopotamia.
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A.
Tera
Tera is a West Chadic language spoken primarily in northeastern Nigeria by the Tera people.
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B.
Teron
Teron is one of the traditional clans of the Karbi people, an indigenous ethnic group primarily inhabiting the Karbi Anglong region of Assam in Northeast India.
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C.
Urana
Urana is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its agricultural surroundings and historic country character.
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D.
Terik
Terik is a Southern Nilotic language spoken by the Terik people of western Kenya, closely related to Nandi and other Kalenjin languages.
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E.
Tianeti
Tianeti is a small town and administrative center in eastern Georgia, situated in the mountainous Mtskheta-Mtianeti region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical patriarch
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | 205 years (biblical) ⓘ |
| ancestorOf | Israelites ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | Genesis 11 ⓘ |
| appearsInGenealogyOf | Abraham ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Mesopotamia ⓘ |
| belongsToCategory |
Book of Genesis people
ⓘ
linked to:
BookOfGenesisPeople
Patriarchs (Bible) ⓘ
linked to:
Patriarchs of Israel
|
| chronologicalPosition | father generation before Abraham ⓘ |
| descendantOf |
Noah
ⓘ
Shem ⓘ |
| diedIn |
Haran (city)
ⓘ
linked to:
Haran
|
| ethnicity |
Chaldean (biblical context)
ⓘ
linked to:
Chaldeans
|
| fatherOf |
Abraham
ⓘ
Haran ⓘ Nahor ⓘ |
| genealogicalSource | Genesis 11:24–32 ⓘ |
| grandfatherOf |
Iscah
ⓘ
Lot ⓘ Milcah ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Terach
ⓘ
linked to:
Abram
Thara ⓘ |
| hasNotableDescendant |
Isaac
ⓘ
Jacob ⓘ twelve tribes of Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Twelve Tribes of Israel
|
| intendedDestination |
Canaan (according to Genesis 11)
ⓘ
linked to:
Canaan
|
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| ledMigrationTo |
Haran (city)
ⓘ
linked to:
Haran
|
| livedIn |
Haran (city)
ⓘ
linked to:
Haran
Ur of the Chaldeans ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| partOfLineage | Shemite lineage ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInTradition |
patriarch in Christianity
ⓘ
patriarch in Islam ⓘ patriarch in Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | figure in primeval and patriarchal history ⓘ |
| sonOf |
Nahor (son of Serug)
ⓘ
linked to:
Nahor
|
| timeFrame | traditional biblical pre-2nd-millennium BCE setting ⓘ |
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: Terah Description of subject: Terah is a biblical patriarch known as the father of Abraham and a descendant of Shem who lived in Mesopotamia.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.