Binyamin
E411850
Binyamin is a figure in Islamic and biblical tradition known as the younger brother of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph).
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Binyamin canonical | 11 |
| Binyamīn | 1 |
| Binyāmīn | 1 |
| Hebrew name Binyamin | 1 |
| שבט בנימין | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4057931 — 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: Binyamin Context triple: [Yusuf, hasSibling, Binyamin]
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A.
Naphtali
Naphtali is one of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the traditional ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali.
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B.
Yehuda
Yehuda is a Hebrew given name traditionally associated with the biblical tribe of Judah and commonly used in Jewish communities.
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C.
Yosef
Yosef is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, best known from the patriarch Joseph and widely used in Jewish communities.
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D.
Or Yehuda
Or Yehuda is a city in central Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District and functioning largely as a residential suburb of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
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E.
Judah son of Jacob
Judah son of Jacob is a prominent biblical patriarch, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and the ancestral figure from whom the Tribe of Judah and the royal Davidic line are traditionally believed to descend.
- 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: Binyamin Target entity description: Binyamin is a figure in Islamic and biblical tradition known as the younger brother of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph).
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A.
Naphtali
Naphtali is one of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the traditional ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali.
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B.
Yehuda
Yehuda is a Hebrew given name traditionally associated with the biblical tribe of Judah and commonly used in Jewish communities.
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C.
Yosef
Yosef is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, best known from the patriarch Joseph and widely used in Jewish communities.
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D.
Or Yehuda
Or Yehuda is a city in central Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District and functioning largely as a residential suburb of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
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E.
Judah son of Jacob
Judah son of Jacob is a prominent biblical patriarch, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and the ancestral figure from whom the Tribe of Judah and the royal Davidic line are traditionally believed to descend.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quranic figure
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Land of Benjamin ⓘ |
| birthOrder | youngest son of Jacob in the Bible ⓘ |
| childOf |
Jacob
ⓘ
Rachel ⓘ Yaqub ⓘ |
| describedAs |
younger brother of Joseph
ⓘ
younger brother of Yusuf ⓘ |
| familyRole |
full brother of Joseph
ⓘ
son of Jacob and Rachel ⓘ |
| meaning |
son of the right hand
ⓘ
son of the south ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
Quran (indirectly) ⓘ
linked to:
Quran
|
| motherLanguageForm | Hebrew name Binyāmīn ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Benjamin
ⓘ
Binyamīn ⓘ
linked to:
Binyamin
Binyāmīn ⓘ
linked to:
Binyamin
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | part of the Joseph story in Genesis ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Asher
ⓘ
Dan ⓘ Dinah ⓘ Gad ⓘ Issachar ⓘ Joseph ⓘ Judah ⓘ Levi ⓘ Naphtali ⓘ Reuben ⓘ Simeon ⓘ Yusuf ⓘ Zebulun ⓘ |
| tribeEponym | Tribe of Benjamin ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
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: Binyamin Description of subject: Binyamin is a figure in Islamic and biblical tradition known as the younger brother of the prophet Yusuf (Joseph).
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Binyamin
linked to: Binyamin
linked to: Binyamin
linked to: Binyamin