patriarch Jacob
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Patriarch Jacob is a central biblical figure regarded as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel and a key ancestor of the Israelite people.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3039493 — 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: patriarch Jacob Context triple: [Israelites, originTradition, patriarch Jacob]
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Abraham
Abraham is the given name of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
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Abraham
Abraham is a small unincorporated community located in rural Millard County in the U.S. state of Utah.
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Abraham
Abraham is a foundational patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, revered as the ancestor of the Israelites and a central figure in Jewish religious tradition.
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
- 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: patriarch Jacob Target entity description: Patriarch Jacob is a central biblical figure regarded as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel and a key ancestor of the Israelite people.
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A.
Abraham
Abraham is the given name of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
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B.
Abraham
Abraham is a small unincorporated community located in rural Millard County in the U.S. state of Utah.
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C.
Abraham
Abraham is a foundational patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, revered as the ancestor of the Israelites and a central figure in Jewish religious tradition.
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D.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor, comedian, and musician Jack Black, known for his energetic performances in films like "School of Rock" and as the lead vocalist of Tenacious D.
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E.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of legendary American comic book artist and writer Jack Kirby, a key creator of many iconic Marvel and DC superheroes.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
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: patriarch Jacob Description of subject: Patriarch Jacob is a central biblical figure regarded as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel and a key ancestor of the Israelite people.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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שְׁכֶם
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Rachel’s tomb
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biblical Jacob’s Well
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