Madaba
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Madaba is a historic Jordanian city renowned for its Byzantine and Umayyad-era mosaics, especially the famous 6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Madaba canonical | 10 |
| City of Madaba | 1 |
| Gerasa | 1 |
| Madaba Map | 1 |
| Madaba Municipality | 1 |
| Madaba archaeological park | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3405247 — 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.
Target entity: Madaba Context triple: [Moab Mountains, nearbyCity, Madaba]
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A.
Jerash
Jerash is an ancient city in northern Jordan renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman ruins and monumental colonnaded streets.
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B.
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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C.
Ṭarābulus
Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
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D.
Al-Maghtas
Al-Maghtas is an archaeological and religious site on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River, widely venerated as the location of Jesus’ baptism and a major Christian pilgrimage destination.
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E.
Caesarea Maritima
Caesarea Maritima was a major Roman port city and administrative center on the Mediterranean coast of Judea, notable as the provincial capital where Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate resided.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Madaba Target entity description: Madaba is a historic Jordanian city renowned for its Byzantine and Umayyad-era mosaics, especially the famous 6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land.
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A.
Jerash
Jerash is an ancient city in northern Jordan renowned for its exceptionally well-preserved Greco-Roman ruins and monumental colonnaded streets.
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B.
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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C.
Ṭarābulus
Ṭarābulus is the Arabic name for Tripoli, a major historic port city and the capital of Libya on the Mediterranean coast.
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D.
Al-Maghtas
Al-Maghtas is an archaeological and religious site on the Jordanian side of the Jordan River, widely venerated as the location of Jesus’ baptism and a major Christian pilgrimage destination.
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E.
Caesarea Maritima
Caesarea Maritima was a major Roman port city and administrative center on the Mediterranean coast of Judea, notable as the provincial capital where Roman governors such as Pontius Pilate resided.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
city
ⓘ
populated place ⓘ |
| climate | semi-arid ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | Jordan ⓘ |
| distanceFromAmman | approximately 30 kilometers southwest ⓘ |
| economySector |
services
ⓘ
small-scale trade ⓘ tourism ⓘ |
| elevation | around 730 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| governingBody |
Madaba
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Madaba Municipality
|
| hasArchaeologicalFeature |
ancient churches
ⓘ
mosaic floors ⓘ |
| hasChristianCommunity | yes ⓘ |
| hasHeritage |
Byzantine period
ⓘ
Umayyad Caliphate ⓘ
surface form:
Umayyad period
|
| heritageStatus | important archaeological and religious heritage site in Jordan ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Byzantine Empire
ⓘ
Early Islamic period ⓘ Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land
ⓘ
Byzantine mosaics ⓘ Christian religious heritage ⓘ Umayyad-era mosaics ⓘ archaeological sites ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jordan (country)
ⓘ
surface form:
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Madaba Governorate ⓘ |
| mapDepicts |
Jerusalem
ⓘ
biblical sites ⓘ Holy Land ⓘ
surface form:
the Holy Land
|
| nearbySite |
Dead Sea shore
ⓘ
surface form:
Dead Sea region
Mount Nebo ⓘ |
| partOf | historic region of the Holy Land ⓘ |
| primaryReligion | Islam ⓘ |
| region | Central Jordan ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | Christianity ⓘ |
| roadConnection |
connected to Amman by the Desert Highway
ⓘ
connected to Amman by the King’s Highway ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+2 ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | UTC+3 ⓘ |
| tourismAttraction |
Church of Saint George
ⓘ
Madaba self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Madaba Map
archaeological parks ⓘ |
| tourismType |
cultural tourism
ⓘ
religious tourism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Madaba Description of subject: Madaba is a historic Jordanian city renowned for its Byzantine and Umayyad-era mosaics, especially the famous 6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.