Amora
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An Amora was a Jewish Talmudic sage of the post-Mishnaic era, known for interpreting and elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13243111 — 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: Amora Context triple: [Resh Lakish, legalAuthorityType, Amora]
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Arella
Arella is a character in DC Comics, best known as the human mother of the Teen Titans member Raven and a former acolyte of the interdimensional demon Trigon.
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Amorina
Amorina is a 19th-century Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, known for its romantic and psychological depth within early modern Swedish literature.
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Marisus
Marisus is the historical Latin name for the Mureș River, a major waterway flowing through present-day Romania and Hungary.
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D.
Ortanella
Ortanella is a small hamlet in the municipality of Esino Lario in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
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E.
Carpo
Carpo is a small, irregularly shaped outer moon of Jupiter with a distant, inclined orbit.
- 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: Amora Target entity description: An Amora was a Jewish Talmudic sage of the post-Mishnaic era, known for interpreting and elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara.
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A.
Arella
Arella is a character in DC Comics, best known as the human mother of the Teen Titans member Raven and a former acolyte of the interdimensional demon Trigon.
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B.
Amorina
Amorina is a 19th-century Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, known for its romantic and psychological depth within early modern Swedish literature.
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C.
Marisus
Marisus is the historical Latin name for the Mureș River, a major waterway flowing through present-day Romania and Hungary.
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D.
Ortanella
Ortanella is a small hamlet in the municipality of Esino Lario in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
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E.
Carpo
Carpo is a small, irregularly shaped outer moon of Jupiter with a distant, inclined orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish religious scholar
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Talmudic sage ⓘ rabbinic sage ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
3rd century CE
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4th century CE ⓘ 5th century CE ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
Gemara
NERFINISHED
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Mishnah NERFINISHED ⓘ Talmud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Babylonian Talmud
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jerusalem Talmud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymology | Aramaic term meaning "speaker" or "interpreter" ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Aggadah
NERFINISHED
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Halakha NERFINISHED ⓘ Talmudic interpretation ⓘ |
| follows | Tanna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm | Amoraim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | rabbinic Judaism ⓘ |
| language |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara
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interpreting the Mishnah ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
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religious leader ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| partOf | Amoraic period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedes | Savora ⓘ |
| region |
Babylonia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Land of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousDiscipline | Oral Torah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousStatus | rabbinic authority ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| role |
author of Talmudic statements
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expounder of Jewish law ⓘ interpreter of the Mishnah ⓘ teacher of Torah ⓘ |
| sourceOf |
Talmudic discussions
ⓘ
aggadic teachings ⓘ halakhic rulings ⓘ |
| studiesAt | yeshiva ⓘ |
| subclassOf | rabbi ⓘ |
| teachesAt | yeshiva ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post-Mishnaic era ⓘ |
| transmitsTraditionFrom | Tannaim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transmitsTraditionTo | Savoraim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Amora Description of subject: An Amora was a Jewish Talmudic sage of the post-Mishnaic era, known for interpreting and elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.