Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave

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ancient burial site holy site pilgrimage site religious shrine tomb

Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave, also known as the Cave of Machpelah, is an ancient burial site in Hebron revered in Judaism as the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.

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All labels observed (10)

Label	Occurrences
Cave of Machpelah	8
Cave of the Patriarchs	6
cave of Machpelah	6
Tomb of the Patriarchs	3
Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave canonical	1
Ma'arat HaMachpelah	1
Sanctuary of Abraham	1
Tomb of the Patriarchs complex	1
Tomb of the Patriarchs religious complex	1
field of Machpelah	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30476 — 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: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave
Context triple: [Jews, hasSacredPlace, Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave]

A. Temple Mount
Temple Mount is a hilltop in Jerusalem revered as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, traditionally regarded as the location of the First and Second Temples.
B. Golgotha
Golgotha is the hill outside ancient Jerusalem traditionally identified as the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and a central location in Christian religious history.
C. Reformation Wall
The Reformation Wall is a monumental stone memorial in Geneva honoring key figures and events of the Protestant Reformation.
D. YadVashem
Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial and research center dedicated to documenting, studying, and commemorating the Holocaust and its victims.
E. Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave
Target entity description: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave, also known as the Cave of Machpelah, is an ancient burial site in Hebron revered in Judaism as the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.

A. Temple Mount
Temple Mount is a hilltop in Jerusalem revered as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, traditionally regarded as the location of the First and Second Temples.
B. Golgotha
Golgotha is the hill outside ancient Jerusalem traditionally identified as the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and a central location in Christian religious history.
C. Reformation Wall
The Reformation Wall is a monumental stone memorial in Geneva honoring key figures and events of the Protestant Reformation.
D. YadVashem
Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial and research center dedicated to documenting, studying, and commemorating the Holocaust and its victims.
E. Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient burial site ⓘ holy site ⓘ pilgrimage site ⓘ religious shrine ⓘ tomb ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Cave of Machpelah ⓘ linked to: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave Cave of the Patriarchs ⓘ linked to: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave Ma'arat HaMachpelah ⓘ linked to: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave
associatedWithCityName	Al-Khalil ⓘ
associatedWithRuler	Herod the Great ⓘ
associatedWithText	Book of Genesis ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ linked to: Tanakh
burialOf	Abraham ⓘ Isaac ⓘ Jacob ⓘ Leah ⓘ Rebekah ⓘ Sarah ⓘ
culturalHeritageType	biblical heritage site ⓘ
enclosedBy	rectangular stone wall ⓘ
hasAccessRestrictions	divided prayer areas for Jews and Muslims ⓘ
hasReligiousComplex	mosque ⓘ synagogue ⓘ
hasStructureAbove	Herodian enclosure ⓘ stone building with massive walls ⓘ
locatedIn	Hebron ⓘ Old City of Hebron ⓘ linked to: Hebron Palestine ⓘ linked to: West Bank West Bank ⓘ
mentionedIn	Genesis 23 ⓘ Genesis 25 ⓘ Genesis 49 ⓘ Genesis 50 ⓘ
pilgrimageDestinationFor	Christians ⓘ linked to: Christianity Jews ⓘ Muslims ⓘ
purchasedBy	Abraham ⓘ
purchasedFrom	Ephron the Hittite ⓘ
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
reveredAs	resting place of the biblical matriarchs ⓘ resting place of the biblical patriarchs ⓘ
significanceInIslam	site associated with Prophet Ibrahim ⓘ
significanceInJudaism	second holiest site after Temple Mount ⓘ
traditionallyDatedTo	Second Temple period ⓘ
UNESCODesignation	World Heritage in Danger ⓘ linked to: List of World Heritage in Danger
UNESCOInscriptionYear	2017 ⓘ
UNESCOStatus	part of Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town World Heritage Site ⓘ

How these facts were elicited