Nahor
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Nahor is a biblical patriarch mentioned in the Book of Genesis, known as a brother of Abraham and an ancestor within the lineage of the Israelites.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nahor canonical | 5 |
| Nahor (son of Serug) | 2 |
| Nahor (grandfather of Abraham) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2413581 — 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: Nahor Context triple: [Haran, associatedWith, Nahor]
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A.
Shechem
Shechem was an important ancient city in the central highlands of Canaan, serving as a significant political and religious center in biblical times.
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B.
Haran
Haran is an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia known from the Hebrew Bible as a key dwelling place of the patriarch Abraham before his journey to Canaan.
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C.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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D.
Gibeah
Gibeah was an ancient Israelite city in the territory of Benjamin, historically notable as the royal seat of King Saul.
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E.
Yokneam Illit
Yokneam Illit is a city in northern Israel known for its high-tech industrial parks and rapid development from a small town into a regional technology hub.
- 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: Nahor Target entity description: Nahor is a biblical patriarch mentioned in the Book of Genesis, known as a brother of Abraham and an ancestor within the lineage of the Israelites.
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A.
Shechem
Shechem was an important ancient city in the central highlands of Canaan, serving as a significant political and religious center in biblical times.
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B.
Haran
Haran is an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia known from the Hebrew Bible as a key dwelling place of the patriarch Abraham before his journey to Canaan.
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C.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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D.
Gibeah
Gibeah was an ancient Israelite city in the territory of Benjamin, historically notable as the royal seat of King Saul.
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E.
Yokneam Illit
Yokneam Illit is a city in northern Israel known for its high-tech industrial parks and rapid development from a small town into a regional technology hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Nahor Description of subject: Nahor is a biblical patriarch mentioned in the Book of Genesis, known as a brother of Abraham and an ancestor within the lineage of the Israelites.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Nahor (son of Serug)
this entity surface form:
Nahor (grandfather of Abraham)