Gera
E501425
Gera is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known primarily as a Benjamite ancestor in the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gera canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5178260 — 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: Gera Context triple: [Ehud, father, Gera]
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A.
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia, known for its industrial heritage and historic architecture along the White Elster river.
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B.
Eschwege
Eschwege is a small historic town in the German state of Hesse, known for its medieval architecture and location near the Werra River.
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C.
Morava
Morava is a Central European river that forms part of the border between Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia before joining the Danube near Bratislava.
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D.
Lahn
The Lahn is a river in western Germany that flows through the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Rhineland-Palatinate before joining the Rhine.
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E.
Werre
The Werre is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that flows through towns such as Detmold and Herford before joining the Weser.
- 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: Gera Target entity description: Gera is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known primarily as a Benjamite ancestor in the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin.
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A.
Gera
Gera is a city in the German state of Thuringia, known for its industrial heritage and historic architecture along the White Elster river.
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B.
Eschwege
Eschwege is a small historic town in the German state of Hesse, known for its medieval architecture and location near the Werra River.
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C.
Morava
Morava is a Central European river that forms part of the border between Austria, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia before joining the Danube near Bratislava.
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D.
Lahn
The Lahn is a river in western Germany that flows through the states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse, and Rhineland-Palatinate before joining the Rhine.
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E.
Werre
The Werre is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that flows through towns such as Detmold and Herford before joining the Weser.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearsInBook |
Book of 1 Chronicles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Book of Genesis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus |
part of Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
part of Jewish canon ⓘ |
| category |
Hebrew Bible person
ⓘ
Old Testament person ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Benjamite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genealogicalRole | ancestor of Benjamites ⓘ |
| hasGenealogicalFunction | link in Benjaminite genealogy ⓘ |
| hasRole | ancestor ⓘ |
| languageContext | Biblical Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| nameForm | גֵּרָא NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameTransliteration | Gera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTextContext | Tanakh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | minor biblical figure ⓘ |
| testament | Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | biblical era ⓘ |
| tribalAffiliation | tribe of Benjamin 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: Gera Description of subject: Gera is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known primarily as a Benjamite ancestor in the genealogy of the tribe of Benjamin.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.