Psalter
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The Psalter is the traditional name for the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of religious songs, prayers, and poems central to Jewish and Christian worship.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Psalter canonical | 8 |
| Book III (Psalms 73–89) | 1 |
| Book III of the Psalter | 1 |
| Book IV (Psalms 90–106) | 1 |
| Book IV: Psalterium Americanum | 1 |
| Coptic Psalmodia | 1 |
| Psalm 91 | 1 |
| Quintuplex Psalterium | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T181711 — 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: Psalter Context triple: [Psalms, alsoKnownAs, Psalter]
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A.
Confraternity Bible
The Confraternity Bible is a mid-20th-century English Catholic translation of the Bible produced under the auspices of the U.S. bishops as a modern revision of the Douay-Rheims.
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B.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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C.
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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D.
Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
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E.
Ancrene Wisse
Ancrene Wisse is an early 13th-century Middle English devotional and instructional guide written for female religious recluses (anchoresses), notable for its spiritual counsel and insight into medieval religious life.
- 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: Psalter Target entity description: The Psalter is the traditional name for the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of religious songs, prayers, and poems central to Jewish and Christian worship.
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A.
Confraternity Bible
The Confraternity Bible is a mid-20th-century English Catholic translation of the Bible produced under the auspices of the U.S. bishops as a modern revision of the Douay-Rheims.
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B.
Codex
Codex is an AI system developed by OpenAI that translates natural language into code and powers tools like GitHub Copilot.
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C.
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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D.
Anno Mundi
Anno Mundi is a year-numbering system that dates events from the traditional Jewish calculation of the world's creation in the Hebrew calendar.
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E.
Ancrene Wisse
Ancrene Wisse is an early 13th-century Middle English devotional and instructional guide written for female religious recluses (anchoresses), notable for its spiritual counsel and insight into medieval religious life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical book
ⓘ
collection of psalms ⓘ liturgical book ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Psalms
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Psalms
Psalms ⓘ |
| associatedWith | King David ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus |
canonical in Catholic Church
ⓘ
canonical in Eastern Orthodox Church ⓘ canonical in Judaism ⓘ canonical in Protestant churches ⓘ |
| contains |
poems
ⓘ
prayers ⓘ religious songs ⓘ |
| genre |
hymn
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ prayer ⓘ |
| hasLiturgicalForm | metrical psalms ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Psalms
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Psalms
|
| influenced |
Christian hymnody
ⓘ
Jewish liturgical music ⓘ Western poetry ⓘ |
| language | Hebrew ⓘ |
| liturgicalRole |
chant
ⓘ
psalmody ⓘ |
| numberOfChapters | 150 ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bible
ⓘ
surface form:
Christian Old Testament
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| primaryFunction |
lament
ⓘ
praise ⓘ supplication ⓘ thanksgiving ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| theologicalTheme |
Torah meditation
ⓘ
confession of sin ⓘ divine kingship ⓘ lament over suffering ⓘ thanksgiving for deliverance ⓘ trust in God ⓘ |
| traditionalDivision | five books ⓘ |
| usedFor |
chanting
ⓘ
private devotion ⓘ public worship ⓘ singing ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Christian worship
ⓘ
Roman Breviary ⓘ
surface form:
Divine Office
Jewish worship ⓘ Mass ⓘ liturgy of the hours ⓘ synagogue services ⓘ |
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: Psalter Description of subject: The Psalter is the traditional name for the biblical Book of Psalms, a collection of religious songs, prayers, and poems central to Jewish and Christian worship.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Book IV: Psalterium Americanum
this entity surface form:
Coptic Psalmodia
this entity surface form:
Quintuplex Psalterium
this entity surface form:
Book III of the Psalter