Joshua
E406976
Joshua is a central biblical leader who succeeded Moses, led the Israelites into the Promised Land, and is the namesake of the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joshua canonical | 34 |
| Yehoshua | 4 |
| Jehoshua | 1 |
| Joshua son of Nun | 1 |
| Josué | 1 |
| Yehoshua ben Nun | 1 |
| Yehoshuaʿ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4020232 — 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: Joshua Context triple: [Tribe of Reuben, associatedWithFigure, Joshua]
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A.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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B.
Joshua
Joshua is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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D.
Joshua son of Jehozadak
Joshua son of Jehozadak was the high priest of the Jewish community during the early post-exilic period, serving alongside Zerubbabel in the rebuilding and restoration of worship at the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
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E.
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.
- 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: Joshua Target entity description: Joshua is a central biblical leader who succeeded Moses, led the Israelites into the Promised Land, and is the namesake of the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible.
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A.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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B.
Joshua
Joshua is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
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C.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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D.
Joshua son of Jehozadak
Joshua son of Jehozadak was the high priest of the Jewish community during the early post-exilic period, serving alongside Zerubbabel in the rebuilding and restoration of worship at the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Israelite leader
ⓘ
Old Testament person ⓘ biblical figure ⓘ prophet ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Moses ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Israelite conquest of Canaan
ⓘ
allocation of Canaanite territories to the tribes of Israel ⓘ crossing of the Jordan River ⓘ Battle of Jericho ⓘ
surface form:
fall of Jericho
|
| associatedWithPerson |
Caleb
ⓘ
Moses ⓘ Rahab ⓘ |
| burialPlaceTradition | Timnath-serah ⓘ |
| centralFigureOf | Book of Joshua ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | YHWH ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Israelites
ⓘ
surface form:
Israelite
|
| father | Nun ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | YHWH is salvation ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Hebrew
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Hebrew
|
| led | Israelites ⓘ |
| ledInto |
Land of Canaan
ⓘ
Promised Land ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| nameVariant |
Hoshea
ⓘ
Joshua self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Jehoshua
Joshua self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yehoshua
|
| oversaw |
division of the land among the tribes
ⓘ
renewal of the covenant at Shechem ⓘ |
| performedSign | commanded the sun to stand still at Gibeon ⓘ |
| predecessor | Moses ⓘ |
| recognizedBy |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Abrahamic religions ⓘ |
| role |
leader of the Israelite conquest of Canaan
ⓘ
military leader of Israel ⓘ successor of Moses ⓘ |
| scripturalRole | covenant leader after Moses ⓘ |
| sent | spies to Jericho ⓘ |
| successor |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Judges (period of the Judges)
|
| supportedBy | Caleb in giving a positive report on Canaan ⓘ |
| titleOf | Book of Joshua ⓘ |
| tribe |
tribe of Ephraim
ⓘ
surface form:
Tribe of Ephraim
|
| veneratedAs | prophet in Islam ⓘ |
| wasOneOf |
the twelve spies sent by Moses
ⓘ
the two faithful spies ⓘ |
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: Joshua Description of subject: Joshua is a central biblical leader who succeeded Moses, led the Israelites into the Promised Land, and is the namesake of the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible.
Referenced by (43)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Ai
subject surface form:
Battle of Ai
this entity surface form:
Yehoshua
this entity surface form:
Yehoshuaʿ
this entity surface form:
Yehoshua ben Nun
this entity surface form:
Josué
this entity surface form:
Yehoshua
subject surface form:
Western half-tribe of Manasseh
this entity surface form:
Yehoshua
this entity surface form:
Jehoshua
this entity surface form:
Yehoshua
this entity surface form:
Joshua son of Nun