Yod
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Yod is the tenth and one of the smallest letters of the Hebrew alphabet, often associated with the concept of divine presence and the starting point of many Hebrew words and names.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yaz symbol | 1 |
| Yod canonical | 1 |
| Yod of the Tetragrammaton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T640654 — 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: Yod Context triple: [Hebrew alphabet, hasLetter, Yod]
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A.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Gimel
Gimel is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally associated with the "g" sound and rich symbolic meanings in Jewish mysticism and tradition.
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D.
Dalet
Dalet is the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the "d" sound and often associated with the numerical value four in Hebrew numerology.
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E.
Comino
Comino is a small, sparsely populated Maltese island in the Mediterranean Sea, best known for its clear waters and the popular Blue Lagoon.
- 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: Yod Target entity description: Yod is the tenth and one of the smallest letters of the Hebrew alphabet, often associated with the concept of divine presence and the starting point of many Hebrew words and names.
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A.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Gimel
Gimel is the third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally associated with the "g" sound and rich symbolic meanings in Jewish mysticism and tradition.
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D.
Dalet
Dalet is the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding to the "d" sound and often associated with the numerical value four in Hebrew numerology.
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E.
Comino
Comino is a small, sparsely populated Maltese island in the Mediterranean Sea, best known for its clear waters and the popular Blue Lagoon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Yod Description of subject: Yod is the tenth and one of the smallest letters of the Hebrew alphabet, often associated with the concept of divine presence and the starting point of many Hebrew words and names.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yod
linked to: Yod