Resh
E80507
Resh is the twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing an "r" sound and used in both Hebrew writing and numerology.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Resh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T640664 — 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: Resh Context triple: [Hebrew alphabet, hasLetter, Resh]
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A.
Rosh
Rosh (Rabbeinu Asher ben Jehiel) was a prominent 13th–14th century Talmudic authority and halachic codifier whose rulings significantly shaped later Jewish law, including the Shulchan Aruch.
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B.
Shan
The Shan are a Tai ethnic group primarily inhabiting Myanmar's Shan State, known for their distinct language, Buddhist traditions, and historical Shan principalities.
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C.
Shuar
Shuar is an indigenous language of the Jivaroan family spoken by the Shuar people primarily in the Amazonian regions of Ecuador and Peru.
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D.
Roni
"Roni" is a 1988 R&B single by Bobby Brown, known for its smooth new jack swing style and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
- 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: Resh Target entity description: Resh is the twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing an "r" sound and used in both Hebrew writing and numerology.
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A.
Rosh
Rosh (Rabbeinu Asher ben Jehiel) was a prominent 13th–14th century Talmudic authority and halachic codifier whose rulings significantly shaped later Jewish law, including the Shulchan Aruch.
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B.
Shan
The Shan are a Tai ethnic group primarily inhabiting Myanmar's Shan State, known for their distinct language, Buddhist traditions, and historical Shan principalities.
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C.
Shuar
Shuar is an indigenous language of the Jivaroan family spoken by the Shuar people primarily in the Amazonian regions of Ecuador and Peru.
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D.
Roni
"Roni" is a 1988 R&B single by Bobby Brown, known for its smooth new jack swing style and romantic lyrics.
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E.
Shimsha
Shimsha is a river in southern India that flows through Karnataka and is known for its waterfalls and contribution to the Kaveri river system.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Hebrew letter ⓘ |
| alphabet | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| category | consonant letter ⓘ |
| correspondsToGreekLetter | Rho ⓘ |
| correspondsToLatinLetter | R ⓘ |
| correspondsToPhoenicianLetter | 𐤓 ⓘ |
| directionOfWriting | right-to-left ⓘ |
| follows | Qof ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | Semitic root for "head" ⓘ |
| hasNumericValue | 200 ⓘ |
| hasScriptForm |
Rashi script
ⓘ
cursive Hebrew ⓘ square Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration |
r
ⓘ
r̄ ⓘ |
| hasUnicodeCodePoint | U+05E8 ⓘ |
| isRadicalInHebrewDictionaryOrdering | true ⓘ |
| nameInHebrew | רֵישׁ ⓘ |
| positionInAlphabet | 20 ⓘ |
| precedes | Shin ⓘ |
| representsPhoneme | /r/ ⓘ |
| unicodeCharacter | ר ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Gematria
ⓘ
Hebrew numerology ⓘ |
| usedInContext |
liturgical Hebrew
ⓘ
modern Hebrew writing ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Hebrew
ⓘ
Judeo-Arabic ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Abjad ⓘ |
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: Resh Description of subject: Resh is the twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, representing an "r" sound and used in both Hebrew writing and numerology.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.