Iscah
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Iscah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis, traditionally identified by some commentators with Sarai (Sarah), the wife of Abraham.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iscah canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11241959 — 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: Iscah Context triple: [Terah, grandfatherOf, Iscah]
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A.
Gilʿad
Gilʿad is a biblical region east of the Jordan River, traditionally associated with the ancient Israelite tribes and noted for its rugged terrain and balm-producing plants.
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B.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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C.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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D.
Geshur
Geshur was a small Aramean kingdom east of the Jordan River, known from the Hebrew Bible as the maternal homeland and refuge of King David’s son Absalom.
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E.
Mesḥa
Mesḥa is the former name of the modern Israeli town of Kfar Tavor, located in the Lower Galilee region.
- 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: Iscah Target entity description: Iscah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis, traditionally identified by some commentators with Sarai (Sarah), the wife of Abraham.
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A.
Gilʿad
Gilʿad is a biblical region east of the Jordan River, traditionally associated with the ancient Israelite tribes and noted for its rugged terrain and balm-producing plants.
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B.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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C.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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D.
Geshur
Geshur was a small Aramean kingdom east of the Jordan River, known from the Hebrew Bible as the maternal homeland and refuge of King David’s son Absalom.
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E.
Mesḥa
Mesḥa is the former name of the modern Israeli town of Kfar Tavor, located in the Lower Galilee region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person in the Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | Genesis 11 ⓘ |
| appearsInGenealogyOf | Terah ⓘ |
| appearsInSection | primeval and patriarchal history in Genesis ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | canonical figure in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| describedAs | daughter of Haran ⓘ |
| familyContext | patriarchal family of Abraham ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| identifiedBy |
some Christian commentators
ⓘ
some Jewish commentators ⓘ |
| interpretationNote |
sometimes considered a distinct person from Sarah
ⓘ
sometimes considered another name for Sarah ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| nameVariant | Jiskah ⓘ |
| relative |
Abram
ⓘ
Haran ⓘ Lot ⓘ Milcah ⓘ Nahor ⓘ Terah ⓘ |
| relativeType |
daughter of Haran
ⓘ
granddaughter of Terah ⓘ niece of Abram ⓘ niece of Nahor ⓘ sister of Lot ⓘ sister of Milcah ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInText | minor genealogical figure ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | non-narrative character ⓘ |
| sourceTextLanguage | Biblical Hebrew ⓘ |
| traditionallyIdentifiedWith |
Sarah
ⓘ
Sarai ⓘ |
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: Iscah Description of subject: Iscah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis, traditionally identified by some commentators with Sarai (Sarah), the wife of Abraham.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.