Zorah
E406287
Zorah was an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan, known from the Hebrew Bible as the hometown of Samson.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4012415 — 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: Zorah Context triple: [Tribe of Dan, capital, Zorah]
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A.
Sh’Diah
Sh’Diah is a track by Kanye West from his 2021 album "Donda," noted for its introspective lyrics and atmospheric production.
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B.
Zerach
Zerach is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, borne by several notable Jewish figures including rabbis, politicians, and scholars.
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C.
Eglah
Eglah is a lesser-known wife of the biblical King David, mentioned among the mothers of his sons in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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E.
Gischala
Gischala was an ancient Jewish town in Galilee, notable as one of the last strongholds of resistance during the First Jewish–Roman War.
- 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: Zorah Target entity description: Zorah was an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan, known from the Hebrew Bible as the hometown of Samson.
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A.
Sh’Diah
Sh’Diah is a track by Kanye West from his 2021 album "Donda," noted for its introspective lyrics and atmospheric production.
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B.
Zerach
Zerach is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, borne by several notable Jewish figures including rabbis, politicians, and scholars.
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C.
Eglah
Eglah is a lesser-known wife of the biblical King David, mentioned among the mothers of his sons in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Libnah
Libnah was a woman of the royal family of Judah, known primarily as the wife of King Josiah and the mother of King Zedekiah.
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E.
Gischala
Gischala was an ancient Jewish town in Galilee, notable as one of the last strongholds of resistance during the First Jewish–Roman War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient town
ⓘ
biblical location ⓘ former populated place ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Samson ⓘ |
| biblicalReference |
Joshua 15:33
ⓘ
Joshua 19:41 ⓘ Judges 13:2 ⓘ Judges 13:25 ⓘ Judges 16:31 ⓘ Ezra–Nehemiah ⓘ
surface form:
Nehemiah 11:29
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| category |
Former populated places in Israel
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible town ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Judah ⓘ |
| describedAs | hometown of Samson ⓘ |
| hasRoleIn | Samson narrative ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | abandoned settlement ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| laterAssociatedWith | Tribe of Judah ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Shephelah
ⓘ
surface form:
Judean foothills
Shephelah ⓘ Tribe of Dan ⓘ Ancient Israel ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Israel
|
| locatedInPresentDay |
Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Israel
|
| locatedNear |
Eshtaol
ⓘ
Valley of Sorek ⓘ |
| locatedOn | hill ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Joshua
ⓘ
Judges ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
Ezra–Nehemiah ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Nehemiah
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| nameInHebrew | צָרְעָה ⓘ |
| partOf | lowland district of Judah ⓘ |
| regionType | town ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age Levant ⓘ |
| transliteration |
Zorah
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tzorah
|
| tribalTerritory | Danites ⓘ |
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: Zorah Description of subject: Zorah was an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan, known from the Hebrew Bible as the hometown of Samson.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tzorah