Teman
E521045
Teman was an important ancient city associated with the Edomites, often noted in biblical texts for its wise men and strategic location in the region south of Judah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Teman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5446444 — 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: Teman Context triple: [Edom, majorCity, Teman]
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A.
The Fan
The Fan is a 1996 psychological thriller film about an obsessive baseball fan whose fixation on his favorite player turns dangerously violent.
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B.
The Fan
The Fan is the popular nickname for Beijing's National Indoor Stadium, a major multi-purpose arena known for hosting events during the 2008 and 2022 Olympic Games.
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C.
Four Friends
Four Friends is a 1981 coming-of-age drama film that follows the intertwined lives of four young people navigating love, identity, and social upheaval in 1960s America.
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D.
The B Team
The B Team is a global nonprofit initiative that brings together business and civil society leaders to promote responsible, sustainable, and inclusive business practices worldwide.
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E.
Toinette
Toinette is the sharp-witted, outspoken maid in Molière’s comedy "Le Malade imaginaire," known for her clever schemes and satirical commentary on her hypochondriac master.
- 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: Teman Target entity description: Teman was an important ancient city associated with the Edomites, often noted in biblical texts for its wise men and strategic location in the region south of Judah.
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A.
The Fan
The Fan is a 1996 psychological thriller film about an obsessive baseball fan whose fixation on his favorite player turns dangerously violent.
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B.
The Fan
The Fan is the popular nickname for Beijing's National Indoor Stadium, a major multi-purpose arena known for hosting events during the 2008 and 2022 Olympic Games.
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C.
Four Friends
Four Friends is a 1981 coming-of-age drama film that follows the intertwined lives of four young people navigating love, identity, and social upheaval in 1960s America.
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D.
The B Team
The B Team is a global nonprofit initiative that brings together business and civil society leaders to promote responsible, sustainable, and inclusive business practices worldwide.
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E.
Toinette
Toinette is the sharp-witted, outspoken maid in Molière’s comedy "Le Malade imaginaire," known for her clever schemes and satirical commentary on her hypochondriac master.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
biblical location ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | prophetic literature ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Edomites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson | Eliphaz the Temanite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation | Edomite wisdom tradition ⓘ |
| describedAs | center of wisdom in Edom ⓘ |
| hasEthnonym | Temanites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | possibly derived from Hebrew word for “south” ⓘ |
| knownFor |
strategic location
ⓘ
wise men ⓘ |
| languageContext | Biblical Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Edom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedSouthOf | Judah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Amos
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Book of Ezekiel NERFINISHED ⓘ Book of Habakkuk NERFINISHED ⓘ Book of Jeremiah NERFINISHED ⓘ Book of Job NERFINISHED ⓘ Book of Obadiah NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
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| partOf | Edomite territory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Transjordan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInTexts |
object of prophetic judgment
ⓘ
symbol of Edom’s power ⓘ |
| status | no longer an inhabited city in its ancient form ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age Levant 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: Teman Description of subject: Teman was an important ancient city associated with the Edomites, often noted in biblical texts for its wise men and strategic location in the region south of Judah.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.