Yohanan
E410143
Yohanan is a Hebrew given name, often rendered as "Yohanan" or "Yochanan," meaning "God is gracious" and historically borne by various Jewish religious and political figures.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yohanan canonical | 10 |
| Hebrew Yochanan | 2 |
| Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan) | 1 |
| Iōánnēs | 1 |
| Yehohanan | 1 |
| Yoanan | 1 |
| Yochanan | 1 |
| Yoḥanan | 1 |
| Yôḥānān | 1 |
| יוחנן | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4084280 — 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: Yohanan Context triple: [Yohanan Bader, givenName, Yohanan]
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A.
Simeon
Simeon is a biblical figure, one of the twelve sons of Jacob and a progenitor of one of the tribes of Israel.
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B.
Simeon
Simeon is a monastic name referring to Saint Simeon the Myrrh-streaming, a revered Orthodox Christian saint known for the miraculous flow of myrrh from his relics.
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C.
Matthaeus
Matthaeus is the Latin form of the given name Matthew, commonly associated with the biblical apostle and evangelist.
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D.
Thomas Didymus
Thomas Didymus is a Christian apostle traditionally known as "Doubting Thomas" for initially questioning Jesus' resurrection before professing strong faith.
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E.
Apostle John
Apostle John was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples, traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of John, three New Testament epistles, and the Book of Revelation.
- 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: Yohanan Target entity description: Yohanan is a Hebrew given name, often rendered as "Yohanan" or "Yochanan," meaning "God is gracious" and historically borne by various Jewish religious and political figures.
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A.
Simeon
Simeon is a biblical figure, one of the twelve sons of Jacob and a progenitor of one of the tribes of Israel.
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B.
Simeon
Simeon is a monastic name referring to Saint Simeon the Myrrh-streaming, a revered Orthodox Christian saint known for the miraculous flow of myrrh from his relics.
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C.
Matthaeus
Matthaeus is the Latin form of the given name Matthew, commonly associated with the biblical apostle and evangelist.
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D.
Thomas Didymus
Thomas Didymus is a Christian apostle traditionally known as "Doubting Thomas" for initially questioning Jesus' resurrection before professing strong faith.
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E.
Apostle John
Apostle John was one of Jesus Christ’s closest disciples, traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of John, three New Testament epistles, and the Book of Revelation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
masculine given name ⓘ |
| appearsInText |
Jewish biblical canon
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible (as Johanan/Yehohanan)
Mishnah ⓘ Talmud ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeForm |
Yohanan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yochanan
Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai ⓘ
surface form:
Yohanan ben Zakkai (personal name form)
Yohanan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yoḥanan
|
| hasAnglicizedForm | John ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Biblical name
ⓘ
Jewish given name ⓘ Theophoric name ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalElement |
YHWH
ⓘ
surface form:
YHWH (the divine name)
ḥanan (to be gracious) ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUsage |
Amoraic period
ⓘ
surface form:
Rabbinic period
Second Temple Judaism ⓘ
surface form:
Second Temple period
|
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasLatinizedForm | Johannes ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
God is gracious
ⓘ
YHWH is gracious ⓘ |
| hasNameDayTradition | Christian liturgical calendars (as John) ⓘ |
| hasNameType | personal name ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Yohanan HaSandlar
ⓘ
John Hyrcanus I ⓘ
surface form:
Yohanan Hyrcanus (John Hyrcanus)
Yohanan bar Nappaha ONNED1 ⓘ Yohanan ben Gedaliah (governor of Judah, often rendered as Johanan) ⓘ Yohanan ben Nuri ⓘ Yohanan ben Torta ⓘ Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai ⓘ
surface form:
Yohanan ben Zakkai
|
| hasRelatedName |
Giovanni
ⓘ
Ivan ⓘ Jean ⓘ Johannes ⓘ
surface form:
Johanan
John ⓘ Juan ⓘ Yohanan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yehohanan
Yohanan self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Yoanan
|
| hasScript | Hebrew script ⓘ |
| hasShortForm |
Yoni
ⓘ
surface form:
Yoni (modern Hebrew diminutive, context-dependent)
|
| hasTransliteration |
Yohanan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Yôḥānān
|
| hasTypicalSpelling |
Yohanan
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
יוחנן
|
| hasUsageRegion |
Israel
ⓘ
Jewish diaspora ⓘ |
| usedInCulture |
Israeli culture
ⓘ
Jewish culture ⓘ |
| usedInReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
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: Yohanan Description of subject: Yohanan is a Hebrew given name, often rendered as "Yohanan" or "Yochanan," meaning "God is gracious" and historically borne by various Jewish religious and political figures.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hebrew Yochanan
this entity surface form:
Hebrew יוֹחָנָן (Yochanan)
this entity surface form:
Hebrew Yochanan
this entity surface form:
Yochanan
this entity surface form:
Yoḥanan
this entity surface form:
Yôḥānān
this entity surface form:
יוחנן
this entity surface form:
Yehohanan
this entity surface form:
Yoanan
this entity surface form:
Iōánnēs