Zerah
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Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in genealogical records as a descendant within the tribe of Zebulun.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zerah canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6588250 — 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: Zerah Context triple: [Zebulun, father, Zerah]
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A.
Zerah
Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Judah and Tamar.
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B.
Zethus
Zethus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Antiope and twin brother of Amphion, known as a co-founder and ruler of the city of Thebes.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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E.
Azarias
Azarias is the Hebrew name traditionally associated with Abednego, one of the three youths in the biblical Book of Daniel who survived the fiery furnace.
- 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: Zerah Target entity description: Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in genealogical records as a descendant within the tribe of Zebulun.
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A.
Zerah
Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Judah and Tamar.
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B.
Zethus
Zethus is a figure in Greek mythology, a son of Zeus and Antiope and twin brother of Amphion, known as a co-founder and ruler of the city of Thebes.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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E.
Azarias
Azarias is the Hebrew name traditionally associated with Abednego, one of the three youths in the biblical Book of Daniel who survived the fiery furnace.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasNotability | minor biblical character ⓘ |
| hasReligion | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| hasRole | genealogical figure ⓘ |
| hasTribe | Tribe of Zebulun ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
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: Zerah Description of subject: Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in genealogical records as a descendant within the tribe of Zebulun.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tribe of Zebulun