Lot’s wife
E466953
Lot’s wife is a biblical figure from the Book of Genesis who, upon looking back at the doomed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah against divine command, was turned into a pillar of salt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lot’s wife canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4761966 — 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: Lot’s wife Context triple: [Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, featuresCharacter, Lot’s wife]
-
A.
Lot’s Wife (collapsed stack)
Lot’s Wife is a distinctive, now-collapsed chalk sea stack that once formed part of the famous coastal rock formations known as The Needles off the Isle of Wight, England.
-
B.
Prophet Lut
Prophet Lut is an Islamic prophet known for calling his people to abandon immoral practices and for the divine destruction that befell his community when they rejected his message.
-
C.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
-
D.
Cain and Abel
Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve in the Bible, known for the story in which Cain murders his brother Abel out of jealousy, marking the first homicide in biblical tradition.
-
E.
Sarai
Sarai was the capital city of the Golden Horde, a major Mongol khanate that dominated parts of Eastern Europe and the Eurasian steppe in the 13th and 14th centuries.
- 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: Lot’s wife Target entity description: Lot’s wife is a biblical figure from the Book of Genesis who, upon looking back at the doomed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah against divine command, was turned into a pillar of salt.
-
A.
Lot’s Wife (collapsed stack)
Lot’s Wife is a distinctive, now-collapsed chalk sea stack that once formed part of the famous coastal rock formations known as The Needles off the Isle of Wight, England.
-
B.
Prophet Lut
Prophet Lut is an Islamic prophet known for calling his people to abandon immoral practices and for the divine destruction that befell his community when they rejected his message.
-
C.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
-
D.
Cain and Abel
Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve in the Bible, known for the story in which Cain murders his brother Abel out of jealousy, marking the first homicide in biblical tradition.
-
E.
Sarai
Sarai is the original name of the biblical matriarch later known as Sarah, wife of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person in the Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| alsoCalled | wife of Lot ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hebrew Bible
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ Quranic tradition (indirectly as Lot's wife) ⓘ |
| associatedWith | destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ⓘ |
| commandedNotTo | look back ⓘ |
| culturalImpact |
inspired artworks
ⓘ
inspired literary works ⓘ inspired religious commentaries ⓘ |
| describedAs | woman who looked back ⓘ |
| disobeyed | divine command ⓘ |
| fledFrom | Sodom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundInText | Genesis 19 ⓘ |
| genreOfSource | religious text narrative ⓘ |
| geographicallyAssociatedWith | region of the Dead Sea ⓘ |
| hasNoPersonalNameIn | Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOutcome | death ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySource | Biblical Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| lookedBackAt |
Gomorrah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sodom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Gospel of Luke 17:32 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralInterpretation | warning against longing for a sinful past ⓘ |
| moralLessonIn |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Islamic tradition ⓘ Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | member of Lot's household ⓘ |
| referencedBy | Jesus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedMythology | Abrahamic religions ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Abraham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedToEvent |
divine destruction of Sodom
ⓘ
rescue of Lot's family ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Lot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusAfterEvent | pillar-like monument of salt ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
attachment to worldly things
ⓘ
disobedience ⓘ divine judgment ⓘ |
| themeIn |
sermons
ⓘ
theological discussions ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | patriarchal era in Genesis ⓘ |
| turnedInto | pillar of salt ⓘ |
| usedAsExampleOf | failure to heed divine warning ⓘ |
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: Lot’s wife Description of subject: Lot’s wife is a biblical figure from the Book of Genesis who, upon looking back at the doomed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah against divine command, was turned into a pillar of salt.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.