Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave
E4531
Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave, also known as the Cave of Machpelah, is an ancient burial site in Hebron revered in Judaism as the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cave of Machpelah | 8 |
| Cave of the Patriarchs | 6 |
| cave of Machpelah | 6 |
| Tomb of the Patriarchs | 3 |
| Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave canonical | 1 |
| Ma'arat HaMachpelah | 1 |
| Sanctuary of Abraham | 1 |
| Tomb of the Patriarchs complex | 1 |
| Tomb of the Patriarchs religious complex | 1 |
| field of Machpelah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30476 — 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: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave Context triple: [Jews, hasSacredPlace, Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave]
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A.
Temple Mount
Temple Mount is a hilltop in Jerusalem revered as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, traditionally regarded as the location of the First and Second Temples.
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B.
Golgotha
Golgotha is the hill outside ancient Jerusalem traditionally identified as the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and a central location in Christian religious history.
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C.
Reformation Wall
The Reformation Wall is a monumental stone memorial in Geneva honoring key figures and events of the Protestant Reformation.
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D.
YadVashem
Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial and research center dedicated to documenting, studying, and commemorating the Holocaust and its victims.
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E.
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- 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: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave Target entity description: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave, also known as the Cave of Machpelah, is an ancient burial site in Hebron revered in Judaism as the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.
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A.
Temple Mount
Temple Mount is a hilltop in Jerusalem revered as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, traditionally regarded as the location of the First and Second Temples.
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B.
Golgotha
Golgotha is the hill outside ancient Jerusalem traditionally identified as the site of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and a central location in Christian religious history.
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C.
Reformation Wall
The Reformation Wall is a monumental stone memorial in Geneva honoring key figures and events of the Protestant Reformation.
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D.
YadVashem
Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial and research center dedicated to documenting, studying, and commemorating the Holocaust and its victims.
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E.
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient burial site
ⓘ
holy site ⓘ pilgrimage site ⓘ religious shrine ⓘ tomb ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave
ⓘ
surface form:
Cave of Machpelah
Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave ⓘ
surface form:
Cave of the Patriarchs
Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave ⓘ
surface form:
Ma'arat HaMachpelah
|
| associatedWithCityName | Al-Khalil ⓘ |
| associatedWithRuler | Herod the Great ⓘ |
| associatedWithText |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| burialOf |
Abraham
ⓘ
Isaac ⓘ Jacob ⓘ Leah ⓘ Rebekah ⓘ Sarah ⓘ |
| culturalHeritageType | biblical heritage site ⓘ |
| enclosedBy | rectangular stone wall ⓘ |
| hasAccessRestrictions | divided prayer areas for Jews and Muslims ⓘ |
| hasReligiousComplex |
mosque
ⓘ
synagogue ⓘ |
| hasStructureAbove |
Herodian enclosure
ⓘ
stone building with massive walls ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hebron
ⓘ
Hebron ⓘ
surface form:
Old City of Hebron
West Bank ⓘ
surface form:
Palestine
West Bank ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Genesis 23
ⓘ
Genesis 25 ⓘ Genesis 49 ⓘ Genesis 50 ⓘ |
| pilgrimageDestinationFor |
Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Christians
Jews ⓘ Muslims ⓘ |
| purchasedBy | Abraham ⓘ |
| purchasedFrom | Ephron the Hittite ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| reveredAs |
resting place of the biblical matriarchs
ⓘ
resting place of the biblical patriarchs ⓘ |
| significanceInIslam | site associated with Prophet Ibrahim ⓘ |
| significanceInJudaism | second holiest site after Temple Mount ⓘ |
| traditionallyDatedTo | Second Temple period ⓘ |
| UNESCODesignation |
List of World Heritage in Danger
ⓘ
surface form:
World Heritage in Danger
|
| UNESCOInscriptionYear | 2017 ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | part of Hebron/Al-Khalil Old Town World Heritage Site ⓘ |
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: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave Description of subject: Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave, also known as the Cave of Machpelah, is an ancient burial site in Hebron revered in Judaism as the resting place of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
Ma'arat HaMachpelah
this entity surface form:
Cave of the Patriarchs
this entity surface form:
Cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
Cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
Cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
field of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
Tomb of the Patriarchs complex
this entity surface form:
Tomb of the Patriarchs
this entity surface form:
Cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
Tomb of the Patriarchs religious complex
this entity surface form:
Cave of the Patriarchs
this entity surface form:
Cave of the Patriarchs
this entity surface form:
Sanctuary of Abraham
this entity surface form:
Cave of the Patriarchs
this entity surface form:
cave of Machpelah
this entity surface form:
cave of Machpelah
subject surface form:
Jacob
this entity surface form:
Cave of Machpelah