Torah
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The Torah is the central and most sacred text of Judaism, comprising the foundational five books that outline Jewish law, teachings, and early history.
All labels observed (21)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Torah canonical | 287 |
| Pentateuch | 35 |
| Written Torah | 6 |
| Greek Pentateuch | 1 |
| Greek Torah | 1 |
| Leviticus | 1 |
| Mosaic Law | 1 |
| Tawrat | 1 |
| Tawrat (Torah) | 1 |
| Torah (in developing form) | 1 |
| Torah commandments | 1 |
| Torah is a human record of the Jewish people’s encounter with the divine | 1 |
| Torah scroll | 1 |
| Torah shebikhtav (Written Torah) | 1 |
| Torah text | 1 |
| the Torah | 1 |
| the Torah is of divine origin | 1 |
| written Torah | 1 |
| תורה | 1 |
| التوراة | 1 |
| Ḥumash | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30418 — 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: Torah Context triple: [Jews, hasReligiousText, Torah]
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A.
Tanakh
The Tanakh is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures that forms the foundational religious text of Judaism, encompassing the Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings).
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B.
Talmud
The Talmud is a central Jewish religious text comprising rabbinic discussions, legal rulings, and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible that form the foundation of traditional Jewish law and theology.
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C.
Halakha
Halakha is the comprehensive body of traditional Jewish religious law and practice derived from the Torah, Talmud, and later rabbinic rulings.
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D.
Ketuvim
Ketuvim is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, comprising a diverse collection of poetic, wisdom, and historical writings central to Jewish scripture.
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E.
Bible
The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.
- 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: Torah Target entity description: The Torah is the central and most sacred text of Judaism, comprising the foundational five books that outline Jewish law, teachings, and early history.
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A.
Tanakh
The Tanakh is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures that forms the foundational religious text of Judaism, encompassing the Torah (Law), Nevi'im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings).
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B.
Talmud
The Talmud is a central Jewish religious text comprising rabbinic discussions, legal rulings, and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible that form the foundation of traditional Jewish law and theology.
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C.
Halakha
Halakha is the comprehensive body of traditional Jewish religious law and practice derived from the Torah, Talmud, and later rabbinic rulings.
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D.
Ketuvim
Ketuvim is the third section of the Hebrew Bible, comprising a diverse collection of poetic, wisdom, and historical writings central to Jewish scripture.
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E.
Bible
The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
central text of Judaism
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holy scripture ⓘ religious text ⓘ sacred text ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Five Books of Moses
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Pentateuch ⓘ
linked to:
Torah
|
| attributedAuthor | Moses ⓘ |
| centralTo |
Jewish education
ⓘ
Jewish ethics ⓘ Jewish law ⓘ Jewish liturgy ⓘ Jewish theology ⓘ |
| contains | 613 commandments (according to rabbinic tradition) ⓘ |
| containsBook |
Deuteronomy
ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Deuteronomy
Exodus ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Exodus
Genesis ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Genesis
Leviticus ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Leviticus
Numbers ⓘ |
| dividedInto |
chapters
ⓘ
parashot ⓘ verses ⓘ |
| hasConcept |
commandments
ⓘ
covenant ⓘ creation ⓘ exodus from Egypt ⓘ revelation at Sinai ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
Islamic tradition ⓘ |
| language | Biblical Hebrew ⓘ |
| liturgicalCycle | annual Torah reading cycle ⓘ |
| liturgicalLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| materialForm |
Torah scroll
ⓘ
linked to:
Torah
printed book ⓘ |
| numberOfBooks | 5 ⓘ |
| partOf | Tanakh ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| respectedBy |
Christians
ⓘ
linked to:
Christianity
Muslims ⓘ |
| sacredTo | Jews ⓘ |
| script | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| scriptureType |
law
ⓘ
narrative ⓘ teaching ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Jewish ritual
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Torah study ⓘ synagogue services ⓘ |
| writtenOn | parchment ⓘ |
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: Torah Description of subject: The Torah is the central and most sacred text of Judaism, comprising the foundational five books that outline Jewish law, teachings, and early history.
Referenced by (346)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Reconstructionist Judaism
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Torah is a human record of the Jewish people’s encounter with the divine
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linked to: Torah
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subject linked to:
Yom Tov (Jewish festival days)
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linked to: Torah