Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form)
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Ζεβεδαῖος is the Greek form of the name Zebedee, known from the New Testament as the father of the apostles James and John.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2283293 — 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: Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form) Context triple: [Zebedee, nameForm, Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form)]
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A.
Zeta
Zeta is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding roughly to the English "z" sound.
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B.
Zeta
Zeta is a historical region in present-day Montenegro that once formed a medieval principality and early state precursor to the country.
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C.
Alexandros (Greek)
Alexandros (Greek) is an ancient Greek male given name meaning "defender of men," best known from figures such as Alexander the Great.
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D.
Gregorios
Gregorios is a variant form of the given name Gregory, commonly used in Greek and related linguistic traditions.
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E.
Zeno Isaurian
Zeno Isaurian was a 5th-century Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor of Isaurian origin whose turbulent reign was marked by internal revolts and religious conflicts.
- 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: Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form) Target entity description: Ζεβεδαῖος is the Greek form of the name Zebedee, known from the New Testament as the father of the apostles James and John.
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A.
Zeta
Zeta is the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding roughly to the English "z" sound.
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B.
Zeta
Zeta is a historical region in present-day Montenegro that once formed a medieval principality and early state precursor to the country.
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C.
Alexandros (Greek)
Alexandros (Greek) is an ancient Greek male given name meaning "defender of men," best known from figures such as Alexander the Great.
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D.
Gregorios
Gregorios is a variant form of the given name Gregory, commonly used in Greek and related linguistic traditions.
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E.
Zeno Isaurian
Zeno Isaurian was a 5th-century Eastern Roman (Byzantine) emperor of Isaurian origin whose turbulent reign was marked by internal revolts and religious conflicts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Biblical figure
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Person in the New Testament ⓘ |
| appearsWith |
Jesus
ⓘ
surface form:
Jesus of Nazareth
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| associatedWith | Sea of Galilee ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Apostle James the Greater
ⓘ
surface form:
James son of Zebedee
John son of Zebedee ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasLanguageForm | Greek ⓘ |
| hasNameForm | Zebedee ⓘ |
| hasOriginalScript | Ζεβεδαῖος ⓘ |
| hasSon |
Apostle James the Greater
ⓘ
surface form:
James son of Zebedee
John son of Zebedee ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Gospel of Luke
ⓘ
Gospel of Mark ⓘ Gospel of Matthew ⓘ New Testament ⓘ |
| nameInEnglish | Zebedee ⓘ |
| nameTransliteratedAs | Zebedaios ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of two of the Twelve Apostles ⓘ |
| occupation | fisherman ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Galilee ⓘ |
| scriptureReference |
Luke 5:10
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Mark 1:19 ⓘ Mark 3:17 ⓘ Matthew 10:2 ⓘ Matthew 4:21 ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Salome (traditional identification) ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 1st century CE ⓘ |
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: Ζεβεδαῖος (Greek form) Description of subject: Ζεβεδαῖος is the Greek form of the name Zebedee, known from the New Testament as the father of the apostles James and John.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.