Apphia
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Apphia is a Christian woman mentioned in the New Testament as one of the recipients of Paul’s Epistle to Philemon, traditionally thought to be a member of Philemon’s household, possibly his wife.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Apphia canonical | 4 |
| Apphia Quick | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2451578 — 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: Apphia Context triple: [Epistle to Philemon, addressedTo, Apphia]
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A.
Ephyra
Ephyra is an ancient city in Greek mythology, often identified with Corinth and known as the legendary home of King Sisyphus.
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B.
Synthia
Synthia is a given name, typically used as a creative or modern variant of the name Cynthia.
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C.
Oizys
Oizys is the Greek personification of misery, distress, and wretchedness, traditionally regarded as a dark and sorrowful deity.
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D.
Evessa
Evessa is a professional basketball team based in Osaka, Japan, competing in the B.League.
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E.
Feronia
Feronia is an ancient Italic goddess associated with wilderness, fertility, and the liberation of slaves, venerated especially by the Sabines and other central Italian peoples.
- 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: Apphia Target entity description: Apphia is a Christian woman mentioned in the New Testament as one of the recipients of Paul’s Epistle to Philemon, traditionally thought to be a member of Philemon’s household, possibly his wife.
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A.
Ephyra
Ephyra is an ancient city in Greek mythology, often identified with Corinth and known as the legendary home of King Sisyphus.
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B.
Synthia
Synthia is a given name, typically used as a creative or modern variant of the name Cynthia.
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C.
Oizys
Oizys is the Greek personification of misery, distress, and wretchedness, traditionally regarded as a dark and sorrowful deity.
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D.
Evessa
Evessa is a professional basketball team based in Osaka, Japan, competing in the B.League.
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E.
Feronia
Feronia is an ancient Italic goddess associated with wilderness, fertility, and the liberation of slaves, venerated especially by the Sabines and other central Italian peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian woman
ⓘ
New Testament person ⓘ biblical figure ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Colossae ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Apostle Paul
ⓘ
Philemon ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | recognized in the Christian biblical canon ⓘ |
| coRecipientWith |
Archippus
ⓘ
Philemon ⓘ the church in Philemon’s house ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 1st century ⓘ |
| honoredIn | some Christian liturgical calendars ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Greek ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Epistle to Philemon ⓘ |
| namedInVerse | Philemon 1:2 ⓘ |
| possibleRole |
member of Philemon’s household
ⓘ
wife of Philemon ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| roleInText | recipient of the Epistle to Philemon ⓘ |
| scripturalTradition | Christian tradition ⓘ |
| sourceTextLanguage | Koine Greek ⓘ |
| testament | New Testament ⓘ |
| traditionallyVeneratedBy |
Eastern Christianity
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Western Christianity ⓘ |
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: Apphia Description of subject: Apphia is a Christian woman mentioned in the New Testament as one of the recipients of Paul’s Epistle to Philemon, traditionally thought to be a member of Philemon’s household, possibly his wife.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Apphia
subject linked to:
the church in Philemon’s house
subject linked to:
the church in Philemon’s house