Dibon
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Dibon was an ancient Moabite city east of the Dead Sea, known from biblical texts and archaeological remains including the famous Mesha Stele.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dibon canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3745341 — 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: Dibon Context triple: [land of Moab, hasCapital, Dibon]
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A.
Gardabani
Gardabani is a town in southeastern Georgia known for its role as an industrial and energy hub within the Kvemo Kartli region.
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B.
Damkina
Damkina is a Mesopotamian earth and mother goddess, best known as the consort of the god Enki (Ea) and mother of the Babylonian chief god Marduk.
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C.
Nobsa
Nobsa is a Colombian town known for its traditional wool textiles and crafts, located in the Boyacá Department.
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D.
Cotyora
Cotyora was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Black Sea in the region of Pontus, known as a colony of Sinope and a waypoint in Xenophon’s Anabasis.
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E.
Gandangara
Gandangara are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Southern Highlands and surrounding regions of New South Wales, known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
- 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: Dibon Target entity description: Dibon was an ancient Moabite city east of the Dead Sea, known from biblical texts and archaeological remains including the famous Mesha Stele.
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A.
Gardabani
Gardabani is a town in southeastern Georgia known for its role as an industrial and energy hub within the Kvemo Kartli region.
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B.
Damkina
Damkina is a Mesopotamian earth and mother goddess, best known as the consort of the god Enki (Ea) and mother of the Babylonian chief god Marduk.
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C.
Nobsa
Nobsa is a Colombian town known for its traditional wool textiles and crafts, located in the Boyacá Department.
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D.
Cotyora
Cotyora was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of the Black Sea in the region of Pontus, known as a colony of Sinope and a waypoint in Xenophon’s Anabasis.
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E.
Gandangara
Gandangara are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Southern Highlands and surrounding regions of New South Wales, known for their distinct language and cultural traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ |
| ancientNameLanguage |
Hebrew
ⓘ
Moabite ⓘ |
| appearsOn |
Mesha Stele
ⓘ
surface form:
Mesha Stele inscription
|
| archaeologicalEvidence |
city walls
ⓘ
domestic architecture ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ water systems ⓘ |
| archaeologicalPeriod |
Iron Age II
ⓘ
Late Bronze Age (possible earlier occupation) ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Israelites
ⓘ
Moabites ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Mesha Stele ⓘ |
| biblicalTribeAssociation |
Tribe of Gad
ⓘ
surface form:
tribe of Gad
Tribe of Reuben ⓘ
surface form:
tribe of Reuben
|
| controlClaimedBy |
Mesha
ⓘ
surface form:
King Mesha of Moab
|
| controlContestedBy |
Northern Kingdom of Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Israel
|
| country | Jordan ⓘ |
| culture | Moabite culture ⓘ |
| deityWorshiped | Chemosh ⓘ |
| describedAs |
Moab
ⓘ
surface form:
city of Moab
high place of Chemosh ⓘ |
| excavatedAt | Dhiban archaeological site ⓘ |
| excavationLedBy | various Jordanian and international teams ⓘ |
| knownFrom |
archaeological remains
ⓘ
biblical texts ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptions | Moabite ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Dead Sea ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Moab ⓘ |
| locatedNear | modern Dhiban ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Isaiah
ⓘ
Book of Jeremiah ⓘ Book of Numbers ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| modernCountry |
Kingdom of Jordan
ⓘ
surface form:
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
|
| nearbyFeature | Wadi Mujib region ⓘ |
| referencedBy | ancient Near Eastern epigraphy scholarship ⓘ |
| region | Transjordan ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | Moabite cult center ⓘ |
| roleInText |
Moabite royal center
ⓘ
fortified city ⓘ |
| scriptUsed | Phoenician-derived alphabet ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
First Temple period
ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ |
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: Dibon Description of subject: Dibon was an ancient Moabite city east of the Dead Sea, known from biblical texts and archaeological remains including the famous Mesha Stele.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.