Elijah

E27221

Hebrew Bible prophet Old Testament prophet biblical figure prophet

Elijah is a major Old Testament prophet who, according to the Bible, was taken up to heaven and later appeared alongside Moses during Jesus’ Transfiguration.

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All labels observed (17)

Label	Occurrences
Elijah canonical	75
Prophet Elijah	14
prophet Elijah	7
Prophet Elias	3
Saint Elijah	3
Προφήτης Ηλίας	3
Elias	2
Elijah (as spiritual patron)	1
Elijah in the Hebrew Bible	1
Elijah stayed with a widow during a famine	1
Elijah the Prophet	1
Elijah the Tishbite	1
Elijah the Tishbite (from Gilead, sometimes linked to Gileadites)	1
Old Testament prophet Elijah	1
biblical Elijah	1
the prophet Elijah	1
إِيلِيَّا	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T191463 — 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: Elijah
Context triple: [Transfiguration, featuresFigure, Elijah]

A. Samuel
Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
B. Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
C. Isaac
Isaac is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "he will laugh" or "laughter."
D. Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
E. Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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: Elijah
Target entity description: Elijah is a major Old Testament prophet who, according to the Bible, was taken up to heaven and later appeared alongside Moses during Jesus’ Transfiguration.

A. Samuel
Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
B. Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
C. Isaac
Isaac is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "he will laugh" or "laughter."
D. Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
E. Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Hebrew Bible prophet ⓘ Old Testament prophet ⓘ biblical figure ⓘ prophet ⓘ
activeDuringReignOf	Ahab ⓘ Ahaziah ⓘ Jehoram of Israel ⓘ
appearedDuring	Transfiguration of Jesus ⓘ linked to: Transfiguration
appearedWith	Moses ⓘ
appearsIn	Books of Kings ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ linked to: Tanakh Old Testament ⓘ linked to: Bible
associatedWith	John the Baptist ⓘ Jordan River ⓘ Mount Carmel ⓘ Northern Kingdom of Israel ⓘ
commemoratedOn	various Christian feast days ⓘ
confronted	prophets of Baal ⓘ
didNotExperience	ordinary physical death ⓘ
liturgicalRole	Elijah’s chair at Jewish circumcision ⓘ Passover Seder cup of Elijah ⓘ
majorNarrativeSource	1 Kings ⓘ 2 Kings ⓘ
mentorOf	Elisha ⓘ
messianicExpectation	forerunner of the Messiah ⓘ
nameMeaning	My God is Yahweh ⓘ
NewTestamentReference	Epistle of James ⓘ Gospels ⓘ
opposed	King Ahab ⓘ Queen Jezebel ⓘ linked to: Jezebel
originalLanguage	Hebrew ⓘ
originalLanguageName	אֵלִיָּהוּ ⓘ
performedMiracle	calling down fire from heaven on Mount Carmel ⓘ calling down fire on the soldiers sent by Ahaziah ⓘ ending the drought through prayer ⓘ multiplication of the widow of Zarephath’s flour and oil ⓘ pronouncing drought in Israel ⓘ raising the widow of Zarephath’s son from the dead ⓘ
QuranicName	Ilyas ⓘ
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ Druze faith ⓘ linked to: Druze Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
successor	Elisha ⓘ
symbolizes	faithfulness to Yahweh ⓘ prophetic tradition ⓘ
takenUpToHeaven	in a whirlwind ⓘ with a chariot of fire ⓘ
veneratedAs	saint in Christianity ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (117)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Transfiguration → featuresFigure → Elijah ⓘ

Kings → mentionsProphet → Elijah ⓘ

Books of Kings → includesFigure → Elijah ⓘ

Elliott → derivedFrom → Elias ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Elliott → derivedFrom → Elijah ⓘ

Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord → hasParticipant → Elijah ⓘ

Elias Erkko → givenName → Elias ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Elijah Wood → givenName → Elijah ⓘ

Carmel Range → associatedWithBiblicalFigure → Elijah ⓘ

Israelites → keyLeader → prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Stella Maris Monastery → associatedWith → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Elia → relatedTo → Elijah ⓘ

Elia → etymologicallyDerivedFrom → Elijah ⓘ

Elia → hasVariant → Elijah ⓘ

Mount Carmel → associatedWithBiblicalFigure → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Eli → isShortFormOf → Elijah ⓘ

Eli → hasDiminutiveFormOf → Elijah ⓘ

Ahab → condemnedBy → prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Elisha → successorOf → Elijah ⓘ

Elisha → mentor → Elijah ⓘ

1 Kings → featuresCharacter → Elijah ⓘ

Jezebel → conflictWith → Elijah ⓘ

Jezebel → threatenedToKill → Elijah ⓘ

Order of the Discalced Carmelites → patronSaint → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

אֵלִיָּהוּ → שם מקביל → Elijah ⓘ

אֵלִיָּהוּ → שם מקביל → إِيلِيَّا ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Northern Kingdom of Israel → associatedWithProphet → Elijah ⓘ

Ahaziah → opposedBy → Elijah ⓘ

Ahaziah → condemnedBy → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

King Ahab → associatedWith → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

King Ahab → condemnedBy → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Mendelssohn's Elijah → principalCharacter → Elijah ⓘ

subject linked to: Mendelssohn Elijah

Ilyas → equivalentTo → Elijah ⓘ

Ilyas → hasNameVariant → Elijah ⓘ

Elijah E. Myers → givenName → Elijah ⓘ

Gra → hasGivenName → Elijah ⓘ

Élie → equivalentNameOf → Elijah ⓘ

Church of Elijah the Prophet → dedicatedTo → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John → givenName → Elijah ⓘ

Ilia → isFormOf → Elijah ⓘ

Church of the Transfiguration → hasChapelDedicatedTo → Elijah ⓘ

Church of the Transfiguration → associatedWithPerson → Elijah ⓘ

Prophet Ilyas → alsoKnownAs → Elijah ⓘ

Prophet Ilyas → identifiedWith → biblical Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Prophet Ilyas → sharesStoryElementsWith → Elijah in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Season of Elijah, Moses and the Prophets → commemorates → Elijah ⓘ

Season of Elijah, Moses and the Prophets → veneratedFigures → Elijah the Prophet ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel → hasNotableSaint → Elijah (as spiritual patron) ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel → spiritualPatron → Prophet Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

Cathedral of St. Elie and St. Gregory the Illuminator → namedAfter → Saint Elijah ⓘ

linked to: Elijah

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Referenced by (117)

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