Jacob
E10780
Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jacob canonical | 167 |
| Hebrew Ya'aqov | 2 |
| Iacobus | 2 |
| Ya'aqov | 2 |
| Biblical Jacob | 1 |
| God of Jacob | 1 |
| Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (Yaʿaqov) | 1 |
| Jaakob | 1 |
| Jakob | 1 |
| Patriarch Jacob | 1 |
| Yaʿaqov | 1 |
| biblical patriarch Jacob | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T35308 — 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: Jacob Context triple: [Judaism, hasKeyFigure, Jacob]
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A.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
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B.
Joseph
Joseph is the husband of Mary in the New Testament and the earthly guardian of Jesus, venerated in Christianity as a model of humility, obedience, and fatherhood.
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C.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Abraham
Abraham is the given name of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
- 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: Jacob Target entity description: Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
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A.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
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B.
Joseph
Joseph is the husband of Mary in the New Testament and the earthly guardian of Jesus, venerated in Christianity as a model of humility, obedience, and fatherhood.
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C.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
James
James is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," widely used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Abraham
Abraham is the given name of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Jacob Description of subject: Jacob is a central patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, regarded in Judaism as the father of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Referenced by (181)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James
this entity surface form:
Ya'aqov
this entity surface form:
biblical patriarch Jacob
this entity surface form:
Jaakob
subject surface form:
Tribe of Naftali
subject surface form:
Tribe of Naftali
subject surface form:
Simeon