Mukawir
E332133
Mukawir is a modern Jordanian village best known as the site of the ancient hilltop fortress of Machaerus, traditionally associated with the imprisonment and execution of John the Baptist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mukawir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3160200 — 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: Mukawir Context triple: [Machaerus, nearModernSettlement, Mukawir]
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A.
Maitum
Maitum is a coastal municipality in the province of Sarangani in the Philippines, known for its archaeological sites and prehistoric anthropomorphic burial jars.
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B.
Manggala
Manggala was a Mongol prince of the 13th century, notable as one of the sons of the Yuan dynasty founder Kublai Khan.
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C.
Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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D.
Napareuli
Napareuli is a Georgian wine appellation in the Kakheti region, known for producing high-quality wines, particularly from the Saperavi grape.
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E.
Tajewala
Tajewala is a village in the Yamunanagar district of Haryana, India, historically known for the Tajewala Barrage on the Yamuna River, which was later replaced by the nearby Hathni Kund Barrage.
- 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: Mukawir Target entity description: Mukawir is a modern Jordanian village best known as the site of the ancient hilltop fortress of Machaerus, traditionally associated with the imprisonment and execution of John the Baptist.
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A.
Maitum
Maitum is a coastal municipality in the province of Sarangani in the Philippines, known for its archaeological sites and prehistoric anthropomorphic burial jars.
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B.
Manggala
Manggala was a Mongol prince of the 13th century, notable as one of the sons of the Yuan dynasty founder Kublai Khan.
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C.
Bantia
Bantia was an ancient Oscan-speaking city in southern Italy, notable for yielding important inscriptions that illuminate the Oscan language and Italic legal traditions.
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D.
Napareuli
Napareuli is a Georgian wine appellation in the Kakheti region, known for producing high-quality wines, particularly from the Saperavi grape.
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E.
Tajewala
Tajewala is a village in the Yamunanagar district of Haryana, India, historically known for the Tajewala Barrage on the Yamuna River, which was later replaced by the nearby Hathni Kund Barrage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human settlement
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| accessedVia | road from Madaba ⓘ |
| country | Jordan ⓘ |
| distanceFrom | Madaba ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 700 metres ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalSite | Machaerus archaeological remains ⓘ |
| hasEconomyBasedOn |
agriculture
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| hasNearbyBiblicalSite |
Mount Nebo
ⓘ
surface form:
Mount Nebo (regional context)
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| hasSite | Machaerus ⓘ |
| hasTouristAttraction | ruins of Machaerus fortress ⓘ |
| hasViewOf |
Judean hills (on clear days)
ⓘ
west bank of the Dead Sea ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with execution of John the Baptist
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association with imprisonment of John the Baptist ⓘ site of the ancient fortress of Machaerus ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Madaba Governorate
ⓘ
central Jordan ⓘ |
| locatedOn | east side of the Dead Sea ⓘ |
| near | Dead Sea ⓘ |
| overlooks |
Dead Sea
ⓘ
Jordan Rift Valley ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jordan (country)
ⓘ
surface form:
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
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| region | Balqa highlands vicinity ⓘ |
| religion | Islam (majority in modern village) ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
site linked to New Testament events ⓘ |
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: Mukawir Description of subject: Mukawir is a modern Jordanian village best known as the site of the ancient hilltop fortress of Machaerus, traditionally associated with the imprisonment and execution of John the Baptist.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.