Samaria (Sebaste)
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Samaria (Sebaste) is an important archaeological site in the central highlands of the West Bank, preserving the remains of the ancient capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and later Hellenistic and Roman cities.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| city of Samaria | 2 |
| Samaria (Sebaste) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5565374 — 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: Samaria (Sebaste) Context triple: [Northern Kingdom of Israel, archaeologicalSite, Samaria (Sebaste)]
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A.
Sepphoris
Sepphoris was an important ancient Galilean city in Roman-era Palestine, known as a political and cultural center with a significant Jewish population and notable rabbinic activity.
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B.
Lydda
Lydda, historically known as Lod, is an ancient city in central Israel/Palestine that has served as a significant crossroads and administrative center since antiquity.
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C.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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D.
Iol Caesarea
Iol Caesarea was an important ancient Mediterranean city in North Africa that served as the political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Mauretania.
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E.
Sha'ar Yafo
Sha'ar Yafo is the Hebrew name for Jaffa Gate, one of the main historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City.
- 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: Samaria (Sebaste) Target entity description: Samaria (Sebaste) is an important archaeological site in the central highlands of the West Bank, preserving the remains of the ancient capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and later Hellenistic and Roman cities.
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A.
Sepphoris
Sepphoris was an important ancient Galilean city in Roman-era Palestine, known as a political and cultural center with a significant Jewish population and notable rabbinic activity.
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B.
Lydda
Lydda, historically known as Lod, is an ancient city in central Israel/Palestine that has served as a significant crossroads and administrative center since antiquity.
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C.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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D.
Iol Caesarea
Iol Caesarea was an important ancient Mediterranean city in North Africa that served as the political and cultural center of the Kingdom of Mauretania.
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E.
Sha'ar Yafo
Sha'ar Yafo is the Hebrew name for Jaffa Gate, one of the main historic entrances to Jerusalem’s Old City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hellenistic city
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Roman city ⓘ ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ biblical site ⓘ |
| containsArtifactType |
Samaria ivories
NERFINISHED
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inscriptions ⓘ pottery from multiple periods ⓘ |
| containsStructure |
Byzantine church remains
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Hellenistic and Roman temples ⓘ Roman basilica ⓘ Roman forum ⓘ Roman theater ⓘ acropolis ⓘ city fortifications ⓘ city gate ⓘ colonnaded street ⓘ royal palace complex of the kings of Israel ⓘ stadium or hippodrome (disputed) ⓘ |
| country | State of Palestine ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
George Andrew Reisner
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University expedition ⓘ John Winter Crowfoot NERFINISHED ⓘ Kathleen Kenyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| excavationStartDate | early 20th century ⓘ |
| foundationDate | 9th century BCE ⓘ |
| foundedBy | King Omri of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Samaria
NERFINISHED
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Sebaste NERFINISHED ⓘ Sebastia NERFINISHED ⓘ Shomron NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | major archaeological heritage site in the West Bank ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Palestine
NERFINISHED
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central highlands of the West Bank ⓘ historical region of Samaria ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
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surface form:
Hebrew Bible
New Testament ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Shemer (landowner from whom Omri bought the hill) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nearbyModernSettlement | Sebastia village NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| newNameGiven | Sebaste NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | West Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| period |
Byzantine period
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Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman period ⓘ |
| reconstructedBy | Herod the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedBy | Herod the Great NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| renamedInHonorOf | Emperor Augustus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| significance |
important for the study of Israelite, Hellenistic, and Roman urbanism in the Levant
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preserves remains of the ancient capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel ⓘ |
| wasCapitalOf | Northern Kingdom of Israel 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: Samaria (Sebaste) Description of subject: Samaria (Sebaste) is an important archaeological site in the central highlands of the West Bank, preserving the remains of the ancient capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel and later Hellenistic and Roman cities.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
as-Sāmirah
this entity surface form:
city of Samaria
subject surface form:
as-Sāmiriyyah
this entity surface form:
city of Samaria