Mount Sinai
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Mount Sinai is the biblical mountain in the Sinai Peninsula where Moses is traditionally believed to have received God's law, making it a central site in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mount Sinai canonical | 39 |
| Har Sinai | 2 |
| Horeb | 2 |
| Mount Horeb | 2 |
| biblical Mount Sinai | 2 |
| Mount Sinai (traditional broader sense) | 1 |
| Mount Sinai summit | 1 |
| Mountain of Moses | 1 |
| summit of Mount Sinai | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T35449 — 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: Mount Sinai Context triple: [Ten Commandments, givenAtLocation, Mount Sinai]
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A.
Mount Elbrus
Mount Elbrus is a dormant stratovolcano in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and the highest peak on the European continent.
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B.
Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell is a prominent, glacier-clad peak in the Sierra Nevada of California, renowned as the tallest mountain in Yosemite National Park and a popular destination for experienced climbers.
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C.
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border, recognized as the highest active volcano in the world.
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D.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
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E.
Providence Mountains
The Providence Mountains are a rugged mountain range in California known for their dramatic limestone formations, desert landscapes, and the Mitchell Caverns within the Mojave Desert.
- 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: Mount Sinai Target entity description: Mount Sinai is the biblical mountain in the Sinai Peninsula where Moses is traditionally believed to have received God's law, making it a central site in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition.
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A.
Mount Elbrus
Mount Elbrus is a dormant stratovolcano in the Caucasus Mountains of Russia and the highest peak on the European continent.
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B.
Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell is a prominent, glacier-clad peak in the Sierra Nevada of California, renowned as the tallest mountain in Yosemite National Park and a popular destination for experienced climbers.
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C.
Ojos del Salado
Ojos del Salado is a massive stratovolcano in the Andes on the Argentina–Chile border, recognized as the highest active volcano in the world.
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D.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
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E.
Providence Mountains
The Providence Mountains are a rugged mountain range in California known for their dramatic limestone formations, desert landscapes, and the Mitchell Caverns within the Mojave Desert.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical location
ⓘ
holy mountain ⓘ mountain ⓘ religious site ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mount Sinai
ⓘ
surface form:
Har Sinai
Mount Sinai ⓘ
surface form:
Mount Horeb
the Mountain of God ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure |
God
ⓘ
surface form:
God of Israel
Moses ⓘ Muhammad ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
|
| category |
Holy mountains
ⓘ
Mountains of the Bible ⓘ Religious places in Egypt ⓘ |
| centralEvent |
giving of the Ten Commandments
ⓘ
revelation of the Torah to Moses ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| hasLanguageName |
Arabic: جبل موسى
ⓘ
Arabic: طور سيناء ⓘ Hebrew: הַר סִינַי ⓘ |
| hasPilgrimagePractice | night ascent by pilgrims ⓘ |
| hasRole |
covenant site between God and Israel
ⓘ
pilgrimage destination ⓘ |
| hasViewOnTop | sunrise over Sinai Peninsula ⓘ |
| importanceInChristianity | site of Mosaic law and theophany ⓘ |
| importanceInIslam | place where Allah spoke to Musa ⓘ |
| importanceInJudaism | site of giving of Torah ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Egypt
ⓘ
Sinai Peninsula ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
Quran ⓘ |
| nearbySite | Saint Catherine’s Monastery ⓘ |
| quranicSurah |
Surah Al-Qasas
ⓘ
Surah At-Tin ⓘ Surah Ta-Ha ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalBook |
Book of Deuteronomy
ⓘ
Book of Exodus ⓘ Book of Leviticus ⓘ Book of Numbers ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
God’s presence
ⓘ
divine revelation ⓘ law and covenant ⓘ |
| theologicalTheme |
formation of Israelite identity
ⓘ
revelation of divine law ⓘ |
| timeDescribedAs | wilderness period of the Israelites ⓘ |
| traditionallyIdentifiedWith | Jebel Musa ⓘ |
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: Mount Sinai Description of subject: Mount Sinai is the biblical mountain in the Sinai Peninsula where Moses is traditionally believed to have received God's law, making it a central site in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.