Cana
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Cana is a small town in the region of Galilee, traditionally known in Christian tradition as the site where Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cana canonical | 3 |
| Cana of Galilee | 3 |
| Cana in Galilee | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T519169 — 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: Cana Context triple: [Galilee, contains, Cana]
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A.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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B.
Nitria
Nitria was one of the earliest and most important Christian monastic centers in the Egyptian desert, renowned as a hub of the Desert Fathers’ ascetic life.
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C.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
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D.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
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E.
Fiumana
Fiumana is a small locality in the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
- 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: Cana Target entity description: Cana is a small town in the region of Galilee, traditionally known in Christian tradition as the site where Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine.
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A.
Chersina
Chersina is a genus of tortoises in the family Testudinidae, best known for the South African species Chersina angulata, commonly called the angulate tortoise.
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B.
Nitria
Nitria was one of the earliest and most important Christian monastic centers in the Egyptian desert, renowned as a hub of the Desert Fathers’ ascetic life.
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C.
Ranna
Ranna was a prominent 10th-century Kannada poet, celebrated as one of the “three gems” of early Kannada literature for his influential epic and courtly works.
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D.
Terevaka
Terevaka is a large extinct volcanic peak that forms the highest and youngest of the three main volcanoes making up Easter Island.
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E.
Fiumana
Fiumana is a small locality in the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
New Testament location
ⓘ
biblical location ⓘ town ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Jesus Christ ⓘ
surface form:
Jesus
Virgin Mary ⓘ
surface form:
Mary, mother of Jesus
|
| commemoratedBy |
Christian liturgy
ⓘ
churches ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| describedIn | New Testament ⓘ |
| event |
healing of the royal official’s son
ⓘ
turning water into wine ⓘ wedding at Cana ⓘ |
| gospelTerm |
Cana
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Cana of Galilee
|
| hasFeastAssociated | Feast of the Wedding at Cana in some Christian rites ⓘ |
| hasRole |
site of first miracle of Jesus
ⓘ
site of water-into-wine miracle ⓘ site of wedding at Cana ⓘ |
| healingOfRoyalOfficialsSonLocationContext | Jesus in Cana, son in Capernaum ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Galilee
ⓘ
historic Palestine ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Palestine
|
| mentionedIn |
Gospel of John
ⓘ
John 2 ⓘ John 21 ⓘ John 4 ⓘ |
| miraclePerformedBy |
Jesus Christ
ⓘ
surface form:
Jesus
|
| modernIdentification |
Kafr Kanna (traditional identification)
ⓘ
Khirbet Qana (alternative scholarly identification) ⓘ |
| nameFormInArabic | قانا ⓘ |
| nameFormInGreek | Κανὰ ⓘ |
| nameFormInLatin | Cana self-link ⓘ |
| numberOfMiraclesTraditionallyAssociated | at least two ⓘ |
| partOf | Galilee region in the time of Jesus ⓘ |
| pilgrimageSiteFor | Christians ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | canonical location in Christian Bible ⓘ |
| significance |
beginning of Jesus’ public ministry in John’s Gospel
ⓘ
symbol of divine abundance and joy in Christian theology ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
marriage
ⓘ
messianic banquet ⓘ transformation ⓘ |
| themeIn |
Christian art
ⓘ
Christian hymnody ⓘ Christian preaching ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfProminence | 1st century CE ⓘ |
| traditionType | Christian pilgrimage tradition ⓘ |
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: Cana Description of subject: Cana is a small town in the region of Galilee, traditionally known in Christian tradition as the site where Jesus performed his first miracle of turning water into wine.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Cana of Galilee
this entity surface form:
Cana in Galilee
this entity surface form:
Cana of Galilee
subject surface form:
Khirbet Qana
this entity surface form:
Cana of Galilee