Ephraim son of Joseph
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Ephraim son of Joseph is a biblical figure, the younger son of Joseph and Asenath, who became ancestor of the powerful Israelite tribe of Ephraim.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ephraim son of Joseph canonical | 4 |
| Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6500991 — 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: Ephraim son of Joseph Context triple: [Ephraim, namedAfter, Ephraim son of Joseph]
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A.
Joseph son of Jacob
Joseph son of Jacob is a central biblical figure known for his prophetic dreams, being sold into slavery by his brothers, and rising to become a powerful leader in Egypt who ultimately saves his family from famine.
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B.
Levi son of Jacob
Levi son of Jacob is a biblical patriarch regarded as the ancestor of the Levites, the Israelite tribe traditionally associated with religious and priestly duties.
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C.
Judah son of Jacob
Judah son of Jacob is a prominent biblical patriarch, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and the ancestral figure from whom the Tribe of Judah and the royal Davidic line are traditionally believed to descend.
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D.
Levite of Ephraim
The Levite of Ephraim is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges whose tragic journey with his concubine leads to a brutal crime and a subsequent civil war in Israel.
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E.
Benjamin son of Jacob
Benjamin son of Jacob is the youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the eponymous ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin.
- 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: Ephraim son of Joseph Target entity description: Ephraim son of Joseph is a biblical figure, the younger son of Joseph and Asenath, who became ancestor of the powerful Israelite tribe of Ephraim.
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A.
Joseph son of Jacob
Joseph son of Jacob is a central biblical figure known for his prophetic dreams, being sold into slavery by his brothers, and rising to become a powerful leader in Egypt who ultimately saves his family from famine.
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B.
Levi son of Jacob
Levi son of Jacob is a biblical patriarch regarded as the ancestor of the Levites, the Israelite tribe traditionally associated with religious and priestly duties.
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C.
Judah son of Jacob
Judah son of Jacob is a prominent biblical patriarch, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and the ancestral figure from whom the Tribe of Judah and the royal Davidic line are traditionally believed to descend.
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D.
Levite of Ephraim
The Levite of Ephraim is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges whose tragic journey with his concubine leads to a brutal crime and a subsequent civil war in Israel.
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E.
Benjamin son of Jacob
Benjamin son of Jacob is the youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the eponymous ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
patriarchal figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith | House of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithLaterKingdom | Northern Kingdom of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | hill country of Ephraim ⓘ |
| birthOrderRelativeToManasseh | younger ⓘ |
| blessedBy | Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| blessingDescribedIn | Genesis 48 ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | figure in the Torah ⓘ |
| category |
Children of Joseph
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tribal ancestors in the Bible ⓘ |
| covenantalLineage | House of Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicCulturalContext | Israelite ⓘ |
| father | Joseph son of Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ephraim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather |
Jacob
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Potiphera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| maternalLineage | Egyptian ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Book of Joshua NERFINISHED ⓘ Book of Numbers NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| mother | Asenath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaningTraditional | fruitful ⓘ |
| paternalLineage |
Abrahamic lineage
ⓘ
Isaac NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| propheticPromise | his descendants would become a multitude of nations ⓘ |
| receivedYoungerOverElderBlessing | true ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ Samaritanism ⓘ |
| roleInTradition | eponymous ancestor of a tribe ⓘ |
| sibling | Manasseh son of Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInJacobBlessing | preferred over Manasseh ⓘ |
| symbolicRole |
representative of the northern tribes of Israel
ⓘ
symbol of fruitfulness ⓘ |
| tribalAffiliationByDescent | Tribe of Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tribalAncestorOf | Tribe of Ephraim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tribeDescendedFrom | Tribe of Ephraim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Jewish tradition ⓘ Samaritan tradition ⓘ |
| youngerBrother | Manasseh son of Joseph 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: Ephraim son of Joseph Description of subject: Ephraim son of Joseph is a biblical figure, the younger son of Joseph and Asenath, who became ancestor of the powerful Israelite tribe of Ephraim.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Jacob
this entity surface form:
Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh