Dhiban
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Dhiban is an archaeological site and modern town in Jordan, historically significant as the ancient Moabite city of Dibon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dhiban canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6343671 — 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: Dhiban Context triple: [Mesha Stele, originalLocation, Dhiban]
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A.
Jabriya
Jabriya is a residential suburb in Kuwait known for its mix of apartment buildings, schools, and local shops within the Hawalli Governorate.
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B.
Jableh
Jableh is a coastal city in northwestern Syria on the Mediterranean Sea, known for its ancient history and archaeological sites, including a well-preserved Roman theater.
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C.
Dambatta
Dambatta is a prominent town and local government area in northern Nigeria, situated within Kano State and known for its role in regional commerce and agriculture.
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D.
Daburiyya
Daburiyya is an Arab town in northern Israel located at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee region.
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E.
Dijlah
Dijlah is the Arabic name for the Tigris River, one of the major rivers of Western Asia flowing through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
- 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: Dhiban Target entity description: Dhiban is an archaeological site and modern town in Jordan, historically significant as the ancient Moabite city of Dibon.
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A.
Jabriya
Jabriya is a residential suburb in Kuwait known for its mix of apartment buildings, schools, and local shops within the Hawalli Governorate.
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B.
Jableh
Jableh is a coastal city in northwestern Syria on the Mediterranean Sea, known for its ancient history and archaeological sites, including a well-preserved Roman theater.
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C.
Dambatta
Dambatta is a prominent town and local government area in northern Nigeria, situated within Kano State and known for its role in regional commerce and agriculture.
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D.
Daburiyya
Daburiyya is an Arab town in northern Israel located at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee region.
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E.
Dijlah
Dijlah is the Arabic name for the Tigris River, one of the major rivers of Western Asia flowing through Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
town ⓘ |
| archaeologicalResearchFocus |
Moabite state formation
ⓘ
urbanism in central Transjordan ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Moabites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biblicalBook |
Book of Isaiah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Book of Jeremiah NERFINISHED ⓘ Book of Numbers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continuityOfOccupation | from at least the Iron Age to the present ⓘ |
| country | Jordan ⓘ |
| culturalHeritageStatus | important archaeological heritage site in Jordan ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 700 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
American Center of Research
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dhiban Excavation and Development Project NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedBy | Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalFeature |
city walls
ⓘ
domestic architecture ⓘ fortifications ⓘ tombs ⓘ water systems ⓘ |
| hasArchaeologicalPeriod |
Byzantine period
ⓘ
Early Islamic period ⓘ Hellenistic period NERFINISHED ⓘ Iron Age NERFINISHED ⓘ Medieval period ⓘ Moabite period NERFINISHED ⓘ Nabataean period NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottoman period ⓘ Roman period ⓘ |
| hasNearbyFind | Mesha Stele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalName | Dibon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Moab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| identifiedAs | ancient city of Dibon ⓘ |
| languageOfInscriptionNearby | Moabite language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Madaba Governorate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Transjordan NERFINISHED ⓘ central Jordan ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Dead Sea
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Wadi al-Mujib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| modernFunction | administrative center for surrounding rural area ⓘ |
| modernPopulation | several thousand inhabitants ⓘ |
| nearbySite |
Karak
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Madaba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| primaryReligionModernTown | Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Balqa Plateau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZone | UTC+2 ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | UTC+3 ⓘ |
| writingSystemAncient | Northwest Semitic alphabet 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: Dhiban Description of subject: Dhiban is an archaeological site and modern town in Jordan, historically significant as the ancient Moabite city of Dibon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.