House of Herod
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The House of Herod was a dynasty of client kings and rulers of Judea and surrounding regions under Roman authority during the late first century BCE and early first century CE.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of Herod canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3263443 — 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: House of Herod Context triple: [Herod Philip, notableFamily, House of Herod]
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A.
Herod’s Northern Palace
Herod’s Northern Palace is a lavish, multi-tiered royal residence dramatically built into the northern cliff face of Masada, overlooking the Dead Sea.
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B.
Herodium
Herodium is an ancient fortress-palace and desert stronghold built by King Herod the Great near Bethlehem, notable for its distinctive conical artificial hill and archaeological remains.
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C.
Sepphoris
Sepphoris was an important ancient Galilean city in Roman-era Palestine, known as a political and cultural center with a significant Jewish population and notable rabbinic activity.
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D.
Herodian enclosure
The Herodian enclosure is a monumental stone structure built by King Herod the Great, enclosing the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and serving as one of the most significant and best-preserved examples of Herodian architecture.
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E.
Qasr al-Yahud
Qasr al-Yahud is a historic baptism site on the Jordan River traditionally revered as the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
- 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: House of Herod Target entity description: The House of Herod was a dynasty of client kings and rulers of Judea and surrounding regions under Roman authority during the late first century BCE and early first century CE.
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A.
Herod’s Northern Palace
Herod’s Northern Palace is a lavish, multi-tiered royal residence dramatically built into the northern cliff face of Masada, overlooking the Dead Sea.
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B.
Herodium
Herodium is an ancient fortress-palace and desert stronghold built by King Herod the Great near Bethlehem, notable for its distinctive conical artificial hill and archaeological remains.
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C.
Sepphoris
Sepphoris was an important ancient Galilean city in Roman-era Palestine, known as a political and cultural center with a significant Jewish population and notable rabbinic activity.
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D.
Herodian enclosure
The Herodian enclosure is a monumental stone structure built by King Herod the Great, enclosing the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and serving as one of the most significant and best-preserved examples of Herodian architecture.
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E.
Qasr al-Yahud
Qasr al-Yahud is a historic baptism site on the Jordan River traditionally revered as the place where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
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: House of Herod Description of subject: The House of Herod was a dynasty of client kings and rulers of Judea and surrounding regions under Roman authority during the late first century BCE and early first century CE.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Herod the Great