Sde Boqer
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Sde Boqer is a kibbutz in Israel’s Negev desert best known as the retirement home and burial place of the country’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sde Boqer canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7701302 — 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: Sde Boqer Context triple: [Sde Boker, hasAlternativeName, Sde Boqer]
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A.
Kfar Shmaryahu
Kfar Shmaryahu is an affluent suburban village in central Israel known for its high standard of living and proximity to Tel Aviv.
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B.
Kiryat Yam
Kiryat Yam is a coastal city in northern Israel, located in the Haifa District and known for its Mediterranean beachfront and residential character.
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C.
Kfar HaOrenim
Kfar HaOrenim is an Israeli locality whose name is used as an alternative designation for the place known in some contexts as Oswiecim, Israel.
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D.
Kfar Saba
Kfar Saba is a city in central Israel, known as a suburban and commercial hub in the Sharon plain near Tel Aviv.
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E.
Nahalal
Nahalal is Israel’s first moshav (cooperative agricultural village), founded in 1921 in the Jezreel Valley and known for its distinctive circular layout.
- 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: Sde Boqer Target entity description: Sde Boqer is a kibbutz in Israel’s Negev desert best known as the retirement home and burial place of the country’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
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A.
Kfar Shmaryahu
Kfar Shmaryahu is an affluent suburban village in central Israel known for its high standard of living and proximity to Tel Aviv.
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B.
Kiryat Yam
Kiryat Yam is a coastal city in northern Israel, located in the Haifa District and known for its Mediterranean beachfront and residential character.
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C.
Kfar HaOrenim
Kfar HaOrenim is an Israeli locality whose name is used as an alternative designation for the place known in some contexts as Oswiecim, Israel.
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D.
Kfar Saba
Kfar Saba is a city in central Israel, known as a suburban and commercial hub in the Sharon plain near Tel Aviv.
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E.
Nahalal
Nahalal is Israel’s first moshav (cooperative agricultural village), founded in 1921 in the Jezreel Valley and known for its distinctive circular layout.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | kibbutz ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
David Ben-Gurion’s vision of Negev development
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Zionist settlement of the Negev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climate | arid desert climate ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| distanceToBeersheba | approximately 50 km south of Beersheba ⓘ |
| distanceToJerusalem | approximately 160 km south of Jerusalem ⓘ |
| distanceToTelAviv | approximately 140 km south of Tel Aviv ⓘ |
| economicActivity |
agriculture
ⓘ
tourism ⓘ |
| elevationAboveSeaLevel | approximately 480 metres ⓘ |
| founded | 1952 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | pioneering Zionist settlers ⓘ |
| governedBy | Ramat Negev Regional Council NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCoordinate | 30.874°N 34.792°E ⓘ |
| hasMuseum | Ben-Gurion Hut museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyInstitution |
Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyNationalPark | Ein Avdat National Park NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNearbyNatureReserve | Nahal Zin nature reserve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Ben-Gurion Archive
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ben-Gurion Hut NERFINISHED ⓘ Ben-Gurion’s grave NERFINISHED ⓘ Paula Ben-Gurion’s grave ⓘ |
| hasPopulationCharacteristic | small rural community ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | site commemorating David Ben-Gurion ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Negev desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeTerritory | Southern District, Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boqer campus
NERFINISHED
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Ein Avdat NERFINISHED ⓘ Midreshet Ben-Gurion NERFINISHED ⓘ Nahal Zin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sde Boker (field of the cowboy) – Hebrew phrase meaning “cowboy’s field” ⓘ |
| notableResident |
David Ben-Gurion
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paula Ben-Gurion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| postalCode | 8499300 ⓘ |
| region | Negev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousCharacter | secular kibbutz ⓘ |
| timeZone | Israel Standard Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeZoneDST | Israel Daylight Time NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| touristAttraction |
Ben-Gurion gravesite lookout over Nahal Zin
NERFINISHED
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Ben-Gurion’s desert home museum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transportConnection | Highway 40 in Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Sde Boqer Description of subject: Sde Boqer is a kibbutz in Israel’s Negev desert best known as the retirement home and burial place of the country’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sde Boker