tefillin
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Tefillin are small black leather boxes containing handwritten Torah passages that observant Jewish men traditionally strap to their arm and head during weekday morning prayers.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STaM (Sefer Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzot) | 1 |
| Tefillin | 1 |
| tefillin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T158778 — 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: tefillin Context triple: [mezuzah, isRelatedTo, tefillin]
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A.
Siddur
The Siddur is the traditional Jewish prayer book containing the set order of daily, Shabbat, and holiday prayers used in Jewish worship.
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B.
mezuzah
A mezuzah is a small parchment scroll inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah, traditionally placed in a decorative case and affixed to the doorposts of Jewish homes as a sign of faith and divine protection.
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C.
Shalom Aleichem
Shalom Aleichem is a traditional Jewish liturgical song sung on Friday night to welcome the Shabbat and the accompanying ministering angels.
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D.
Lecha Dodi
Lecha Dodi is a liturgical Hebrew poem sung in Jewish Friday evening services to welcome the Sabbath as a bride.
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E.
Torah
The Torah is the central and most sacred text of Judaism, comprising the foundational five books that outline Jewish law, teachings, and early history.
- 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: tefillin Target entity description: Tefillin are small black leather boxes containing handwritten Torah passages that observant Jewish men traditionally strap to their arm and head during weekday morning prayers.
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A.
Siddur
The Siddur is the traditional Jewish prayer book containing the set order of daily, Shabbat, and holiday prayers used in Jewish worship.
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B.
mezuzah
A mezuzah is a small parchment scroll inscribed with Hebrew verses from the Torah, traditionally placed in a decorative case and affixed to the doorposts of Jewish homes as a sign of faith and divine protection.
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C.
Shalom Aleichem
Shalom Aleichem is a traditional Jewish liturgical song sung on Friday night to welcome the Shabbat and the accompanying ministering angels.
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D.
Lecha Dodi
Lecha Dodi is a liturgical Hebrew poem sung in Jewish Friday evening services to welcome the Sabbath as a bride.
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E.
Torah
The Torah is the central and most sacred text of Judaism, comprising the foundational five books that outline Jewish law, teachings, and early history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish ritual object
ⓘ
arm tefillin ⓘ head tefillin ⓘ religious artifact ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | phylacteries ⓘ |
| associatedWithMitzvah | binding the words of Torah GENERATED ⓘ |
| boxShape | cube GENERATED ⓘ |
| commandedIn |
Book of Deuteronomy
ⓘ
surface form:
Deuteronomy 11:18
Book of Deuteronomy ⓘ
surface form:
Deuteronomy 6:8
Exodus 13:16 ⓘ Exodus 13:9 ⓘ |
| contains | handwritten Torah passages ⓘ |
| containsParshiyot |
Deuteronomy 11:13–21
ⓘ
Shema Yisrael ⓘ
surface form:
Deuteronomy 6:4–9
Exodus 13:11–16 ⓘ Exodus 13:1–10 GENERATED ⓘ |
| genderPractice | primarily male obligation GENERATED ⓘ |
| halakhicStatus | biblical commandment ⓘ |
| hasPart |
tefillin shel rosh
ⓘ
tefillin shel yad ⓘ |
| languageName | תפילין ⓘ |
| manufactureRequires | scribal expertise GENERATED ⓘ |
| material | black leather ⓘ |
| mustBe | kosher ⓘ |
| notUsedOn |
Shabbat
GENERATED
ⓘ
major Jewish festivals ⓘ |
| numberOfBoxes | 2 GENERATED ⓘ |
| orientation | toward the heart ⓘ |
| position |
above forehead
ⓘ
biceps ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| scriptType | Hebrew square script ⓘ |
| scriptureSource | Torah ⓘ |
| strapColor | black GENERATED ⓘ |
| strapMaterial | leather GENERATED ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
acceptance of the yoke of Heaven
ⓘ
connection between mind, heart, and action ⓘ remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt ⓘ |
| tradition |
Ashkenazi customs
ⓘ
Sephardi customs ⓘ Yemenite customs ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Conservative Judaism
ⓘ
surface form:
Conservative Jews
Orthodox Judaism ⓘ
surface form:
Orthodox Jews
|
| usedIn | Jewish prayer ⓘ |
| wornBy | observant Jewish men ⓘ |
| wornDuring | weekday morning prayers GENERATED ⓘ |
| wornOn |
arm
ⓘ
head ⓘ |
| writingMaterial | parchment ⓘ |
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: tefillin Description of subject: Tefillin are small black leather boxes containing handwritten Torah passages that observant Jewish men traditionally strap to their arm and head during weekday morning prayers.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
STaM (Sefer Torah, Tefillin, Mezuzot)
subject surface form:
Block script (Ktav Ashuri)
this entity surface form:
Tefillin