Tiberias
E2296
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tiberias canonical | 58 |
| city of Tiberias | 3 |
| Tiberias (south along the shore) | 1 |
| Tiberias (traditional) | 1 |
| Tiberias Municipality | 1 |
| western shore of the Sea of Galilee | 1 |
| Ṭabariyya | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30477 — 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: Tiberias Context triple: [Jews, hasSacredPlace, Tiberias]
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A.
Giza
Giza is an Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile, famous for the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are located.
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B.
Livadia
Livadia is a resort settlement in Crimea best known as the site of the historic Livadia Palace, where the 1945 Yalta Conference was held.
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C.
Gori
Gori is a city in central Georgia best known as the birthplace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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D.
Turtle Bay
Turtle Bay is a neighborhood on Manhattan’s East Side in New York City, best known as the site of the United Nations Headquarters.
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E.
Roma
The Roma are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group originating from the Indian subcontinent and living mainly in Europe, long subjected to persecution and discrimination, including mass murder during the Holocaust.
- 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: Tiberias Target entity description: Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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A.
Giza
Giza is an Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile, famous for the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx are located.
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B.
Livadia
Livadia is a resort settlement in Crimea best known as the site of the historic Livadia Palace, where the 1945 Yalta Conference was held.
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C.
Gori
Gori is a city in central Georgia best known as the birthplace of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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D.
Turtle Bay
Turtle Bay is a neighborhood on Manhattan’s East Side in New York City, best known as the site of the United Nations Headquarters.
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E.
Roma
The Roma are a traditionally nomadic ethnic group originating from the Indian subcontinent and living mainly in Europe, long subjected to persecution and discrimination, including mass murder during the Holocaust.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
city ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Tverya
ⓘ
surface form:
Tveria
Tverya ⓘ Tiberias ⓘ
surface form:
Ṭabariyya
|
| climate | Mediterranean climate ⓘ |
| contains |
Tomb of Maimonides
ⓘ
Tomb of Rabbi Akiva (traditionally associated) ⓘ tombs of Jewish sages ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| economy |
services
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately -200 meters ⓘ |
| foundedAroundYear | 20 CE ⓘ |
| foundedInCentury | 1st century CE ⓘ |
| founder | Herod Antipas ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Tiberias
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tiberias Municipality
|
| hasFeature |
archaeological remains
ⓘ
hot springs ⓘ lakeside promenade ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Galilee ⓘ |
| holyCityFor | Judaism ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
ⓘ
English ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedBelowSeaLevel | true ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Northern District, Israel ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Eastern European Time
ⓘ
surface form:
Israel Standard Time
|
| locatedNear | Sea of Galilee ⓘ |
| locatedOn | western shore of the Sea of Galilee ⓘ |
| locatedOnWaterbody |
Sea of Galilee
ⓘ
surface form:
Lake Kinneret
|
| majorReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Tiberius
ⓘ
surface form:
Roman emperor Tiberius
Tiberius ⓘ |
| partOf |
British Mandate for Palestine
ⓘ
surface form:
British Mandate of Palestine (historically)
Canaan ⓘ
surface form:
Land of Israel
Ottoman Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Ottoman Empire (historically)
|
| region |
Galilee
ⓘ
surface form:
Lower Galilee
|
| religiousStatus | one of the four holy cities of Judaism alongside Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed ⓘ |
| role |
center of Masoretic activity
ⓘ
center of compilation of the Jerusalem Talmud ⓘ |
| significance |
important Jewish pilgrimage site
ⓘ
major center of Jewish learning ⓘ one of Judaism’s four holy cities ⓘ |
| tourismType |
health and spa tourism
ⓘ
religious tourism ⓘ |
| utcOffset | +02:00 ⓘ |
| utcOffsetDST | +03:00 ⓘ |
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: Tiberias Description of subject: Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
Referenced by (66)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
city of Tiberias
subject surface form:
Rabbi Meir
this entity surface form:
city of Tiberias
subject surface form:
Taricheae