Magdala
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Magdala is an ancient fishing town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of Mary Magdalene in Christian tradition.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Magdala canonical | 14 |
| Magdala (town on the Sea of Galilee) | 1 |
| Magdala (town) | 1 |
| Magdala (traditional identification) | 1 |
| Magdala Taricheae | 1 |
| Magdala archaeological site | 1 |
| Magdala excavation site (proposed) | 1 |
| Magdala, Israel | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T530269 — 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: Magdala Context triple: [Sea of Galilee, nearbyCity, Magdala]
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A.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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B.
Qumran
Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank best known for its ancient ruins and its association with the nearby caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
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C.
Tel HaShomer
Tel HaShomer is a neighborhood in Ramat Gan, Israel, best known for its major military base and large government-run hospital complex.
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D.
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was an ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of several of Jesus’s apostles in the New Testament.
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E.
Yokneam Illit
Yokneam Illit is a city in northern Israel known for its high-tech industrial parks and rapid development from a small town into a regional technology hub.
- 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: Magdala Target entity description: Magdala is an ancient fishing town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of Mary Magdalene in Christian tradition.
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A.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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B.
Qumran
Qumran is an archaeological site in the West Bank best known for its ancient ruins and its association with the nearby caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.
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C.
Tel HaShomer
Tel HaShomer is a neighborhood in Ramat Gan, Israel, best known for its major military base and large government-run hospital complex.
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D.
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was an ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of several of Jesus’s apostles in the New Testament.
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E.
Yokneam Illit
Yokneam Illit is a city in northern Israel known for its high-tech industrial parks and rapid development from a small town into a regional technology hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient town
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ populated place in antiquity ⓘ |
| archaeologicalExcavationsBegan | 21st century ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Christianity ⓘ |
| associatedWithText | New Testament ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Dominican archaeologists
ⓘ
Israeli archaeologists ⓘ |
| flourishedInCentury |
1st century BCE
ⓘ
1st century CE ⓘ |
| governedDuringPeriod |
Herodian rule
ⓘ
Roman rule in Judea ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Magadan (possible identification)
ⓘ
linked to:
Magadan
Migdal ⓘ Migdal Nunayya ⓘ Taricheae (possible identification in some scholarly views) ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFeature |
Magdala Stone
ⓘ
fishing-related facilities ⓘ harbor installations ⓘ market area ⓘ mikvaot (ritual baths) ⓘ residential quarter ⓘ synagogue ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | Aramaic word for "tower" or "fortress" ⓘ |
| hasNearbyModernLocality |
Migdal (modern Israeli town)
ⓘ
linked to:
Migdal
|
| hasSignificance |
important for study of early Christianity
ⓘ
important for study of early Judaism ⓘ |
| languageOfHistoricalInhabitants |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Greek ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Galilee
ⓘ
Lower Galilee ⓘ
linked to:
Galilee
|
| locatedInDistrict |
Northern District of Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern District, Israel
|
| locatedInRegion |
historical Palestine
ⓘ
linked to:
historic Palestine
|
| locatedNear |
Ginosar
ⓘ
Sea of Galilee ⓘ Tiberias ⓘ |
| locatedOn |
western shore of the Sea of Galilee
ⓘ
linked to:
Tiberias
|
| mentionedIn | Christian tradition about Mary Magdalene ⓘ |
| partOf | historical region of Galilee ⓘ |
| primaryEconomicActivity |
fish processing
ⓘ
fishing ⓘ |
| religionOfHistoricalInhabitants | Judaism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Second Temple period ⓘ |
| tourismType |
archaeological tourism site
ⓘ
religious tourism site ⓘ |
| traditionalHometownOf | Mary Magdalene ⓘ |
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: Magdala Description of subject: Magdala is an ancient fishing town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of Mary Magdalene in Christian tradition.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Magdala
subject linked to:
Taricheae (possible identification in some scholarly views)
subject linked to:
Taricheae (possible identification in some scholarly views)
linked to: Magdala
subject linked to:
Taricheae (possible identification in some scholarly views)
subject linked to:
Taricheae (possible identification in some scholarly views)
linked to: Magdala
linked to: Magdala
linked to: Magdala
linked to: Magdala
linked to: Magdala