Elijah
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Elijah is a major Old Testament prophet who, according to the Bible, was taken up to heaven and later appeared alongside Moses during Jesus’ Transfiguration.
All labels observed (15)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elijah canonical | 42 |
| Prophet Elijah | 9 |
| Prophet Elias | 3 |
| Saint Elijah | 3 |
| Elias | 2 |
| prophet Elijah | 2 |
| Elijah (as spiritual patron) | 1 |
| Elijah in the Hebrew Bible | 1 |
| Elijah stayed with a widow during a famine | 1 |
| Elijah the Prophet | 1 |
| Elijah the Tishbite | 1 |
| Old Testament prophet Elijah | 1 |
| biblical Elijah | 1 |
| Προφήτης Ηλίας | 1 |
| إِيلِيَّا | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T191463 — 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: Elijah Context triple: [Transfiguration, featuresFigure, Elijah]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
Isaac
Isaac is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "he will laugh" or "laughter."
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D.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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E.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
- 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: Elijah Target entity description: Elijah is a major Old Testament prophet who, according to the Bible, was taken up to heaven and later appeared alongside Moses during Jesus’ Transfiguration.
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
Isaac
Isaac is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "he will laugh" or "laughter."
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D.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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E.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew Bible prophet
ⓘ
Old Testament prophet ⓘ biblical figure ⓘ prophet ⓘ |
| activeDuringReignOf |
Ahab
ⓘ
Ahaziah ⓘ Jehoram of Israel ⓘ |
| appearedDuring |
Transfiguration
ⓘ
surface form:
Transfiguration of Jesus
|
| appearedWith | Moses ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Books of Kings
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| associatedWith |
John the Baptist
ⓘ
Jordan River ⓘ Mount Carmel ⓘ Northern Kingdom of Israel ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | various Christian feast days ⓘ |
| confronted | prophets of Baal ⓘ |
| didNotExperience | ordinary physical death ⓘ |
| liturgicalRole |
Elijah’s chair at Jewish circumcision
ⓘ
Passover Seder cup of Elijah ⓘ |
| majorNarrativeSource |
1 Kings
ⓘ
2 Kings ⓘ |
| mentorOf | Elisha ⓘ |
| messianicExpectation | forerunner of the Messiah ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | My God is Yahweh ⓘ |
| NewTestamentReference |
Epistle of James
ⓘ
Gospels ⓘ |
| opposed |
King Ahab
ⓘ
Jezebel ⓘ
surface form:
Queen Jezebel
|
| originalLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| originalLanguageName | אֵלִיָּהוּ ⓘ |
| performedMiracle |
calling down fire from heaven on Mount Carmel
ⓘ
calling down fire on the soldiers sent by Ahaziah ⓘ ending the drought through prayer ⓘ multiplication of the widow of Zarephath’s flour and oil ⓘ pronouncing drought in Israel ⓘ raising the widow of Zarephath’s son from the dead ⓘ |
| QuranicName | Ilyas ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Druze ⓘ
surface form:
Druze faith
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| successor | Elisha ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
faithfulness to Yahweh
ⓘ
prophetic tradition ⓘ |
| takenUpToHeaven |
in a whirlwind
ⓘ
with a chariot of fire ⓘ |
| veneratedAs | saint in Christianity ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: Elijah Description of subject: Elijah is a major Old Testament prophet who, according to the Bible, was taken up to heaven and later appeared alongside Moses during Jesus’ Transfiguration.
Referenced by (70)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Saint Elijah
subject surface form:
Zarephath
subject surface form:
Zarephath
this entity surface form:
Elijah stayed with a widow during a famine
subject surface form:
Zarephath
this entity surface form:
Elijah the Tishbite
this entity surface form:
Prophet Elijah
subject surface form:
Profitis Ilias (Taygetus)
this entity surface form:
Prophet Elias
subject surface form:
Profitis Ilias (Taygetus)
this entity surface form:
Prophet Elias
subject surface form:
Profitis Ilias (Taygetus)
this entity surface form:
Prophet Elias
subject surface form:
Mount Profitis Ilias (Nisyros)
this entity surface form:
Προφήτης Ηλίας
subject surface form:
Mount Profitis Ilias (Nisyros)
this entity surface form:
Old Testament prophet Elijah