Ataroth
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Ataroth is an ancient Moabite town known from biblical texts and the Mesha Stele, associated with conflicts between Israel and Moab.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ataroth canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6343694 — 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: Ataroth Context triple: [Mesha Stele, mentionsPlace, Ataroth]
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A.
Argobba
Argobba is an endangered South Semitic language spoken by the Argobba people in central Ethiopia.
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B.
Halistra
Halistra is a small crofting settlement on the Waternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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C.
Tirhuta
Tirhuta is a historical Brahmic script traditionally used for writing the Maithili language in the Mithila region of India and Nepal.
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D.
Arakhin
Arakhin is a tractate of the Mishnah and Talmud that deals primarily with the laws of vows of valuation and consecration to the Temple.
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E.
Alatyr
Alatyr is a historic town in the Chuvash Republic of Russia, known as a regional cultural center with roots dating back to the medieval period.
- 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: Ataroth Target entity description: Ataroth is an ancient Moabite town known from biblical texts and the Mesha Stele, associated with conflicts between Israel and Moab.
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A.
Argobba
Argobba is an endangered South Semitic language spoken by the Argobba people in central Ethiopia.
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B.
Halistra
Halistra is a small crofting settlement on the Waternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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C.
Tirhuta
Tirhuta is a historical Brahmic script traditionally used for writing the Maithili language in the Mithila region of India and Nepal.
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D.
Arakhin
Arakhin is a tractate of the Mishnah and Talmud that deals primarily with the laws of vows of valuation and consecration to the Temple.
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E.
Alatyr
Alatyr is a historic town in the Chuvash Republic of Russia, known as a regional cultural center with roots dating back to the medieval period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient town
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ biblical location ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
King Mesha of Moab
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ tribe of Gad ⓘ tribe of Reuben NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | conflicts between Israel and Moab ⓘ |
| conflictSide |
Israel
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Moab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Israelite culture
ⓘ
Moabite culture ⓘ |
| describedAs | Moabite town ⓘ |
| hasNameForm | Atarot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | border town between Israelite and Moabite territories ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
Moabite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Moab
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Transjordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Joshua
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Book of Numbers NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Mesha Stele NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Near East ⓘ |
| region | Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Moabite religion
ⓘ
ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| sourceType |
biblical narrative
ⓘ
epigraphic evidence ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
1st millennium BCE
ⓘ
Iron Age ⓘ |
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: Ataroth Description of subject: Ataroth is an ancient Moabite town known from biblical texts and the Mesha Stele, associated with conflicts between Israel and Moab.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.