Moriah
E402261
Moriah is a biblical region traditionally associated with the site where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac and later with the location of the Temple in Jerusalem.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3963757 — 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: Moriah Context triple: [land of Moriah, hasAlternativeForm, Moriah]
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A.
Ma'in
Ma'in was an ancient South Arabian kingdom known for its role in the incense trade and its capital at Qarnāwu in present-day Yemen.
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B.
Moresheth
Moresheth is an ancient town in the Judean lowlands, traditionally identified as the hometown of the biblical prophet Micah.
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C.
Ohafia
Ohafia is a prominent town and traditional Igbo community in southeastern Nigeria known for its rich cultural heritage and warrior history.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Sharurah
Sharurah is a remote desert city in southern Saudi Arabia near the Yemeni border, known as a growing urban center within the Najran Region.
- 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: Moriah Target entity description: Moriah is a biblical region traditionally associated with the site where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac and later with the location of the Temple in Jerusalem.
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A.
Ma'in
Ma'in was an ancient South Arabian kingdom known for its role in the incense trade and its capital at Qarnāwu in present-day Yemen.
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B.
Moresheth
Moresheth is an ancient town in the Judean lowlands, traditionally identified as the hometown of the biblical prophet Micah.
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C.
Ohafia
Ohafia is a prominent town and traditional Igbo community in southeastern Nigeria known for its rich cultural heritage and warrior history.
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D.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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E.
Sharurah
Sharurah is a remote desert city in southern Saudi Arabia near the Yemeni border, known as a growing urban center within the Najran Region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical region
ⓘ
religious site ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
2 Chronicles 3
ⓘ
Genesis 22 ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
covenant
ⓘ
divine testing ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Akedah
ⓘ
binding of Isaac ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Abraham
ⓘ
Isaac ⓘ King David ⓘ King Solomon ⓘ |
| associatedWithStructure |
First Temple in Jerusalem
ⓘ
surface form:
First Temple
Solomon's Temple ⓘ Jewish Temple ⓘ
surface form:
Temple in Jerusalem
|
| describedAs |
mountain region
ⓘ
place shown by God to Abraham ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Biblical mountains
ⓘ
Holy places in Jerusalem ⓘ Places in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| hasTheologicalSignificance |
site of Temple construction
ⓘ
site of commanded sacrifice ⓘ symbol of faith and obedience ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Mount Zion
ⓘ
surface form:
Mount Zion (in some traditions)
Temple Mount ⓘ
surface form:
Temple Mount in Jerusalem (in Jewish tradition)
site of Dome of the Rock (in some identifications) ⓘ |
| locatedInNarrative |
land of Moriah
ⓘ
surface form:
Land of Moriah
|
| mentionedIn |
Books of Chronicles
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Chronicles
Book of Genesis ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| nameInHebrewScript | מוריה ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Christian typological interpretations of the Akedah
ⓘ
Jewish exegesis on Genesis 22 ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
future site of central sanctuary
ⓘ
location chosen by God ⓘ |
| subjectOfDebate | exact geographical location ⓘ |
| traditionallyIdentifiedWith |
Temple Mount
ⓘ
surface form:
Jerusalem Temple site
Temple Mount ⓘ |
| veneratedBy |
Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Christians
Jews ⓘ Muslims ⓘ |
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: Moriah Description of subject: Moriah is a biblical region traditionally associated with the site where Abraham was to sacrifice Isaac and later with the location of the Temple in Jerusalem.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ophel