Yosef
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Yosef is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, best known from the patriarch Joseph and widely used in Jewish communities.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yosef canonical | 17 |
| Yossef | 2 |
| Joseph, son of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible | 1 |
| Yosef ben Yaakov | 1 |
| Yoséf | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1205552 — 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: Yosef Context triple: [Yosef Karo, givenName, Yosef]
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A.
Shlomo
Shlomo is the Hebrew name for King Solomon, the biblical monarch renowned for his wisdom, wealth, and the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem.
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B.
Chaim
Chaim is a given name notably borne by Chaim Weizmann, the first President of the State of Israel and a prominent Zionist leader and chemist.
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C.
Jacob
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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D.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances.
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E.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
- 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: Yosef Target entity description: Yosef is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, best known from the patriarch Joseph and widely used in Jewish communities.
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A.
Shlomo
Shlomo is the Hebrew name for King Solomon, the biblical monarch renowned for his wisdom, wealth, and the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem.
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B.
Chaim
Chaim is a given name notably borne by Chaim Weizmann, the first President of the State of Israel and a prominent Zionist leader and chemist.
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C.
Jacob
Jacob is the birth name of American actor John Garfield, a prominent film star of the 1930s and 1940s known for his intense, naturalistic performances.
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D.
Jacob
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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E.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ theophoric name ⓘ |
| appearsInBook | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| appearsInText |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| derivedFrom | Hebrew root יסף (yasaf) ⓘ |
| etymologicallyRelatedTo | Joseph ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAnglicizedForm | Joseph ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalForm |
Yosef
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yosef ben Yaakov
|
| hasCategory |
Hebrew masculine given names
ⓘ
Jewish given names ⓘ theophoric given names ⓘ |
| hasCulturalUsage |
religious Jewish families
ⓘ
secular Jewish families ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
He will add
ⓘ
Yahweh will add ⓘ |
| hasNameDayTradition | linked to biblical Joseph commemorations ⓘ |
| hasPopularityReason | association with biblical Joseph ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAssociation |
patriarchs of Israel
ⓘ
Twelve Tribes of Israel ⓘ
surface form:
twelve tribes of Israel
|
| hasReligiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| hasScript | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Yossi
ⓘ
surface form:
Yosel
Yoske ⓘ Yossi ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration | Yosef self-link ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Yosef
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yossef
Yosef self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yoséf
|
| isBestKnownFrom |
Joseph son of Jacob
ⓘ
surface form:
biblical patriarch Joseph
|
| isCommonInCommunity | Jewish communities ⓘ |
| isCommonInRegion |
Ashkenazi Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Ashkenazi Jewish communities
Israel ⓘ Mizrahi Jews ⓘ
surface form:
Middle Eastern Jewish diaspora
|
| isNameOf |
multiple Israeli politicians
ⓘ
multiple Jewish religious leaders ⓘ multiple rabbis ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | first name ⓘ |
| isUsedBy |
Hebrew speakers
ⓘ
Mizrahi Jews ⓘ Sephardi Jews ⓘ Yiddish speakers ⓘ |
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: Yosef Description of subject: Yosef is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, best known from the patriarch Joseph and widely used in Jewish communities.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yossef
this entity surface form:
Joseph, son of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible
this entity surface form:
Yossef
this entity surface form:
Yoséf
this entity surface form:
Yosef ben Yaakov
subject surface form:
Chida
subject surface form:
Ovadia Yosef