Joseph
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Joseph was a son of Antipater the Idumaean and a member of the influential family that produced Herod the Great in late Second Temple–period Judea.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joseph canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4427019 — 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: Joseph Context triple: [Antipater the Idumaean, child, Joseph]
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A.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
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Joseph
Joseph is the husband of Mary in the New Testament and the earthly guardian of Jesus, venerated in Christianity as a model of humility, obedience, and fatherhood.
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Joseph
Joseph is the given name of the French mathematician and physicist Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, known for developing Fourier analysis and Fourier series.
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Joseph
Joseph is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "He will add" or "God increases."
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the given first name of Joe Torre, the former Major League Baseball player and Hall of Fame manager best known for leading the New York Yankees to multiple World Series titles.
- 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: Joseph Target entity description: Joseph was a son of Antipater the Idumaean and a member of the influential family that produced Herod the Great in late Second Temple–period Judea.
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A.
Joseph
Joseph is the husband of Mary in the New Testament and the earthly guardian of Jesus, venerated in Christianity as a model of humility, obedience, and fatherhood.
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B.
Joseph
Joseph was one of the given names of Napoleon II, the short-lived son and nominal heir of Napoleon Bonaparte who was briefly recognized as Emperor of the French.
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Joseph
Joseph, also known as Barnabas, was an early Christian disciple and companion of the Apostle Paul, recognized for his missionary work and role in the spread of Christianity.
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Joseph
Joseph is the given name of Joe Namath, the Hall of Fame American football quarterback famed for his career with the New York Jets.
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Joseph
Joseph is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "He will add" or "God increases."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| activeIn | Judea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Roman Republic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Judea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culture | Hellenistic Jewish culture ⓘ |
| era | 1st century BCE ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Idumaean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Antipater the Idumaean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Roman client-kingdom politics in Judea ⓘ |
| houseOrDynasty | House of Herod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Greek ⓘ |
| memberOf | Herodian dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | family of Herod the Great ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the family that produced Herod the Great
ⓘ
being a son of Antipater the Idumaean ⓘ |
| region | Idumea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Antipater the Idumaean
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Herod the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| siblingOf | Herod the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Late Second Temple period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Joseph Description of subject: Joseph was a son of Antipater the Idumaean and a member of the influential family that produced Herod the Great in late Second Temple–period Judea.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.