Obadiah

E142602

Book of the Bible Old Testament book prophetic book

Obadiah is a short prophetic book of the Old Testament that delivers a judgment oracle against Edom and a vision of Israel’s restoration.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Obadiah canonical	6

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Book of the Bible ⓘ Old Testament book ⓘ prophetic book ⓘ
addresses	Edom ⓘ Israel ⓘ
authorshipAttributedTo	prophet Obadiah ⓘ
canonicalStatus	canonical scripture ⓘ
containsProphecyAgainst	mountain of Esau ⓘ
containsProphecyOf	Israel’s restoration ⓘ Zion’s deliverance ⓘ
focusesOn	day of the Lord ⓘ
genre	judgment oracle ⓘ prophecy ⓘ
includedIn	Roman Catholic biblical canon ⓘ surface form: Catholic Old Testament Tanakh ⓘ surface form: Jewish Tanakh Septuagint ⓘ surface form: Orthodox Old Testament Protestant Bible ⓘ surface form: Protestant Old Testament
language	Hebrew ⓘ surface form: Biblical Hebrew
length	21 verses ⓘ one chapter ⓘ
liturgicalUse	read in Christian lectionaries ⓘ read in Jewish lectionaries ⓘ
mentions	Esau ⓘ Jacob ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Zion ⓘ
notableFeature	shortest book in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ shortest book in the Old Testament ⓘ
partOf	Tanakh ⓘ surface form: Hebrew Bible Neviim ⓘ Bible ⓘ surface form: Old Testament The Twelve Minor Prophets ⓘ
positionInChristianCanon	Bible ⓘ surface form: Old Testament
positionInJewishCanon	Prophets ⓘ surface form: Latter Prophets
primaryTheme	judgment against Edom ⓘ restoration of Israel ⓘ
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
structure	oracle of judgment followed by promise of restoration ⓘ
subjectOf	biblical commentaries ⓘ theological studies ⓘ
theologicalTheme	covenant faithfulness ⓘ divine justice ⓘ retribution ⓘ universal judgment ⓘ

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: Obadiah
Description of subject: Obadiah is a short prophetic book of the Old Testament that delivers a judgment oracle against Edom and a vision of Israel’s restoration.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Roman Catholic biblical canon → includesBook → Obadiah ⓘ

Obadiah Scott → givenName → Obadiah ⓘ

Book of Obadiah → attributedTo → Obadiah ⓘ

Protestant Bible → containsBook → Obadiah ⓘ

Zarephath (biblical town) → mentionedIn → Obadiah ⓘ

subject surface form: Zarephath

R. Obadiah Sforno → givenName → Obadiah ⓘ

subject surface form: Obadiah Sforno