Adam
E20531
Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adam canonical | 71 |
| Cain | 1 |
| first Adam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T62654 — 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: Adam Context triple: [Original sin, transmittedFrom, Adam]
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A.
Albert
Albert is the given name of the renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose work revolutionized modern physics.
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B.
Jack
Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
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C.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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D.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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E.
Samuel
Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
- 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: Adam Target entity description: Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
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A.
Albert
Albert is the given name of the renowned theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose work revolutionized modern physics.
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B.
Jack
Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
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C.
Carl
Carl is the given name of Carl Sagan, the renowned American astronomer, science communicator, and author.
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D.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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E.
Samuel
Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
mythological figure ⓘ progenitor of humanity ⓘ religious figure ⓘ |
| appearsInText |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Quran ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition |
Baha'i Faith
ⓘ
surface form:
Baháʼí Faith
Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
The Fall of Man
ⓘ
surface form:
Fall of Man
|
| ateFrom | tree of the knowledge of good and evil ⓘ |
| committedAct | disobedience to God ⓘ |
| consequenceOfDisobedience |
expulsion from Eden
ⓘ
introduction of sin into human condition ⓘ mortality for humans ⓘ toil and hardship ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| createdBy | God ⓘ |
| createdFrom |
clay
ⓘ
dust of the ground ⓘ |
| createdInLocation | Garden of Eden ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasBurialTraditionAt |
Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave
ⓘ
surface form:
Cave of Machpelah
Jerusalem ⓘ Sri Lanka ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources |
Arabic
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaningOfName |
earth
ⓘ
human ⓘ man ⓘ |
| mentionedInChapter |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
surface form:
Genesis 2
Genesis 3 ⓘ |
| mentionedInSurah |
Surah Al-A'raf
ⓘ
Surah Al-Baqarah ⓘ Surah Ta-Ha ⓘ |
| nameInHebrew | אָדָם ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Abel
ⓘ
Cain ⓘ Seth ⓘ other sons and daughters ⓘ |
| roleInTradition |
ancestor of all humans
ⓘ
first human being ⓘ |
| spouse | Eve ⓘ |
| theologicalConcept | original sin ⓘ |
| titleInChristianity |
Adam
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
first Adam
|
| veneratedAs | prophet in Islam ⓘ |
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: Adam Description of subject: Adam is the first human in Abrahamic religious traditions, whose disobedience in Eden is believed to have introduced sin into the human condition.
Referenced by (73)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
first Adam
subject surface form:
Paradise Lost