Tobias
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Tobias is the virtuous young protagonist of the biblical Book of Tobit, known for his journey with the angel Raphael and the healing of his father’s blindness.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tobias canonical | 6 |
| Tobiah (Tobias) | 1 |
| Tobias (son of Tobit) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1000801 — 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: Tobias Context triple: [Tobit, hasMainCharacter, Tobias]
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A.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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B.
Tobias Read
Tobias Read is an American politician who has served as Oregon's State Treasurer, overseeing the state's financial management and public investment programs.
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C.
Trevor
Trevor is a masculine given name of English origin commonly used in the UK and other English-speaking countries.
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D.
Caleb
Caleb is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "devotion" or "whole-hearted," commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Tobias Target entity description: Tobias is the virtuous young protagonist of the biblical Book of Tobit, known for his journey with the angel Raphael and the healing of his father’s blindness.
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A.
Tobias
Tobias was a Native American man from the 17th-century Wampanoag community, known primarily through his familial connection to the Sakonnet leader Awashonks.
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B.
Tobias Read
Tobias Read is an American politician who has served as Oregon's State Treasurer, overseeing the state's financial management and public investment programs.
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C.
Trevor
Trevor is a masculine given name of English origin commonly used in the UK and other English-speaking countries.
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D.
Caleb
Caleb is a male given name of Hebrew origin meaning "devotion" or "whole-hearted," commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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E.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical character
ⓘ
fictional person ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| accompaniedBy |
Raphael
ⓘ
Raphael (archangel) ⓘ
surface form:
angel Raphael
|
| appearsIn |
Tobit
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Tobit
|
| associatedWithTheme |
charity
ⓘ
divine providence ⓘ family loyalty ⓘ healing ⓘ marriage ⓘ |
| defeats | Asmodeus ⓘ |
| encounters |
Asmodeus
ⓘ
surface form:
demon Asmodeus
|
| fishPartsUsedFor |
exorcism of Asmodeus
ⓘ
healing of blindness ⓘ |
| genreContext | biblical novella ⓘ |
| guidedBy | Raphael ⓘ |
| hasFather | Tobit ⓘ |
| hasMother | Anna ⓘ |
| hasWife | Sarah ⓘ |
| healingMethod | fish gall ⓘ |
| heals | Tobit ⓘ |
| includedIn |
Catholic biblical canon
ⓘ
Orthodox biblical canon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
filial piety
ⓘ
obedience ⓘ virtue ⓘ |
| languageOfText | Hebrew Bible tradition ⓘ |
| marriageContext | deliverance of Sarah from Asmodeus ⓘ |
| marriesAtLocation | Ecbatana ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Tobiah the Ammonite
ⓘ
surface form:
Tobiah
Tobiah the Ammonite ⓘ
surface form:
Tobiyah
|
| nationality | Israelite ⓘ |
| performsAct | retrieval of deposited money for Tobit ⓘ |
| performsMiracle | healing of Tobit’s blindness ⓘ |
| receivesInstructionFrom |
Raphael
ⓘ
Tobit ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | central human character ⓘ |
| scripturalBookPosition | Deuterocanonical section of Old Testament (in some Christian traditions) ⓘ |
| textStatus | deuterocanonical book protagonist ⓘ |
| travelsFrom | Nineveh ⓘ |
| travelsTo |
Media
ⓘ
Rages ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Naphtali ⓘ |
| usesAnimal | fish ⓘ |
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: Tobias Description of subject: Tobias is the virtuous young protagonist of the biblical Book of Tobit, known for his journey with the angel Raphael and the healing of his father’s blindness.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tobiah (Tobias)
this entity surface form:
Tobias (son of Tobit)