Korah
E343457
Korah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as a descendant of Esau and part of the Edomite lineage.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Korah canonical | 4 |
| Korah (son of Esau) | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3294716 — 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: Korah Context triple: [Esau, fatherOf, Korah]
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A.
Korah
Korah is a biblical figure known for leading a rebellion against Moses and Aaron during the Israelites’ wilderness journey.
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B.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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C.
Kohath
Kohath is a key ancestral figure in the Hebrew Bible, known as one of Levi’s sons and the forefather of the Kohathite priestly clan from which Moses and Aaron descended.
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D.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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E.
Sons of Korah
The Sons of Korah were a Levitical family line in ancient Israel known for their role as temple singers and composers of several psalms in the Hebrew Bible.
- 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: Korah Target entity description: Korah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as a descendant of Esau and part of the Edomite lineage.
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A.
Korah
Korah is a biblical figure known for leading a rebellion against Moses and Aaron during the Israelites’ wilderness journey.
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B.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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C.
Kohath
Kohath is a key ancestral figure in the Hebrew Bible, known as one of Levi’s sons and the forefather of the Kohathite priestly clan from which Moses and Aaron descended.
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D.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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E.
Sons of Korah
The Sons of Korah were a Levitical family line in ancient Israel known for their role as temple singers and composers of several psalms in the Hebrew Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: Korah Description of subject: Korah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as a descendant of Esau and part of the Edomite lineage.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Korah (son of Esau)
this entity surface form:
Korah (son of Esau)