Ar of Moab
E384310
Ar of Moab was an ancient Moabite city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, located east of the Dead Sea in what is now modern-day Jordan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ar of Moab canonical | 5 |
| ערבות מואב | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3745342 — 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: Ar of Moab Context triple: [land of Moab, hasCity, Ar of Moab]
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A.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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B.
Balaam
Balaam is a biblical figure depicted in the Old Testament as a non-Israelite diviner or prophet whose story involves attempts to curse Israel and a famous encounter with a talking donkey.
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C.
Shammah
Shammah is a lesser-known son of Jesse mentioned in the Bible, traditionally recognized as one of King David’s older brothers.
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D.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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E.
King Moabdar
King Moabdar is a fictional monarch in Voltaire’s philosophical tale "Zadig," serving as the ruler whose court and decisions shape much of the story’s political and moral drama.
- 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: Ar of Moab Target entity description: Ar of Moab was an ancient Moabite city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, located east of the Dead Sea in what is now modern-day Jordan.
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A.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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B.
Balaam
Balaam is a biblical figure depicted in the Old Testament as a non-Israelite diviner or prophet whose story involves attempts to curse Israel and a famous encounter with a talking donkey.
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C.
Shammah
Shammah is a lesser-known son of Jesse mentioned in the Bible, traditionally recognized as one of King David’s older brothers.
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D.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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E.
King Moabdar
King Moabdar is a fictional monarch in Voltaire’s philosophical tale "Zadig," serving as the ruler whose court and decisions shape much of the story’s political and moral drama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
biblical city ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Moabites ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Moab ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Northwest Semitic ⓘ |
| describedAs | Moabite city ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | Moabites ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Iron Age Levant ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| locatedEastOf | Dead Sea ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Moab
ⓘ
Transjordan ⓘ |
| locatedInPresentDay | Jordan ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| mentionedInBook |
Book of Deuteronomy
ⓘ
Book of Numbers ⓘ |
| modernCountryTerritory |
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
ⓘ
linked to:
Jordan (country)
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| nearbyBodyOfWater | Arnon River ⓘ |
| notableFeature | identified as a principal city of Moab in biblical tradition ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Levant ⓘ |
| region | East of the Jordan River ⓘ |
| religiousTextCategory | place in the Bible ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalRole | geographical reference in biblical narratives ⓘ |
| status |
archaeologically uncertain location
ⓘ
ruined city ⓘ |
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: Ar of Moab Description of subject: Ar of Moab was an ancient Moabite city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, located east of the Dead Sea in what is now modern-day Jordan.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ar of Moab