Bible
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The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.
All labels observed (26)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Old Testament | 660 |
| Bible canonical | 288 |
| Christian Bible | 79 |
| Christian Old Testament | 30 |
| Holy Bible | 23 |
| Sacred Scripture | 13 |
| the Bible | 13 |
| The Holy Bible | 12 |
| Holy Scripture | 10 |
| The Bible | 6 |
| Christian Scripture | 4 |
| New Testament | 4 |
| OldTestament | 4 |
| Bibles | 2 |
| Old and New Testaments | 2 |
| Protestant Bible | 2 |
| Scripture | 2 |
| Authority of Scripture | 1 |
| Bible (selected teachings) | 1 |
| Catholic biblical canon | 1 |
| Christian Scriptures | 1 |
| Holy Scriptures | 1 |
| The Bible (various editions) | 1 |
| The Scriptures | 1 |
| canonical Christian Bible | 1 |
| the Old Testament | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17610 — 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: Bible Context triple: [Christianity, hasSacredText, Bible]
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A.
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion centered on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, emphasizing salvation through faith in him.
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B.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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C.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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D.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
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E.
Geeks Bearing Gifts
Geeks Bearing Gifts is a book by computing pioneer Ted Nelson that reflects on the history, philosophy, and future of digital media and information technology.
- 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: Bible Target entity description: The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.
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A.
Christianity
Christianity is a monotheistic Abrahamic religion centered on the life, teachings, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, emphasizing salvation through faith in him.
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B.
Mens et Manus
Mens et Manus is the Latin motto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, expressing the union of mind and hand in the pursuit of knowledge and practical application.
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C.
Veritas
Veritas is the Latin word for "truth" and is famously used as the motto of Harvard University.
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D.
The Quaker
The Quaker is the traditional, colonial-era–styled mascot representing the University of Pennsylvania and its athletic teams.
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E.
Geeks Bearing Gifts
Geeks Bearing Gifts is a book by computing pioneer Ted Nelson that reflects on the history, philosophy, and future of digital media and information technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (87)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian sacred text
ⓘ
holy book ⓘ religious scripture ⓘ |
| centralFigure |
God
ⓘ
Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| circulation | one of the most widely distributed books in history ⓘ |
| consideredBy | Christians as divinely inspired ⓘ |
| contains |
Acts of the Apostles
ⓘ
Book of Revelation ⓘ Epistles ⓘ Gospels ⓘ Historical Books ⓘ Prophetic Books ⓘ Torah ⓘ Wisdom Literature ⓘ |
| excludesDeuterocanonicalBooksIn | most Protestant canons ⓘ |
| genre |
apocalyptic literature
ⓘ
narrative literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ prophetic literature ⓘ religious text ⓘ wisdom literature ⓘ |
| hasCanonVariationIn |
Catholic canon
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Orthodox canon
Protestant canon ⓘ |
| hasMajorDivision |
Final Judgment
ⓘ
surface form:
Apocalypse
Catholic Epistles ⓘ Gospels and Acts ⓘ Law ⓘ Pauline Epistles ⓘ Prophets ⓘ Writings ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Bible
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
New Testament
Bible self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| hasTranslation |
English Standard Version
ⓘ
Good News Bible ⓘ Jerusalem Bible ⓘ King James Version ⓘ Louis Segond Bible ⓘ Luther Bible ⓘ New American Bible ⓘ New International Version ⓘ New King James Version ⓘ New Living Translation ⓘ New Revised Standard Version ⓘ Reina-Valera ⓘ Septuagint ⓘ Synodal Bible ⓘ Vulgate ⓘ |
| includesDeuterocanonicalBooksIn |
Catholic canon
ⓘ
Eastern Orthodox canon ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian theology
ⓘ
Western art ⓘ Western ethics ⓘ Western law ⓘ Western literature ⓘ Western music ⓘ Western philosophy ⓘ |
| isSacredTextOf |
Anglican Communion
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglicanism
Roman Catholicism ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
Evangelicalism ⓘ Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ
surface form:
Oriental Orthodox Churches
Protestant Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
Restorationist movements ⓘ |
| languageOfOriginalText |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ Koine Greek ⓘ |
| overlapsWith |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| relatedWork | Tanakh ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| statusInChristianity |
authoritative scripture
ⓘ
foundation of Christian doctrine ⓘ norm for Christian practice ⓘ |
| studiedIn |
biblical studies
ⓘ
religious studies ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| usedFor |
devotional reading
ⓘ
doctrinal teaching ⓘ liturgy ⓘ moral instruction ⓘ theological study ⓘ worship ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Christian catechesis
ⓘ
Christian liturgy ⓘ Christian preaching ⓘ |
| viewedAs | Word of God by many Christians ⓘ |
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: Bible Description of subject: The Bible is the central sacred scripture of Christianity, comprising the Old and New Testaments and serving as the foundational text for Christian belief and practice.
Referenced by (1,163)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
OldTestament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Christian Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Christian Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Christian Scripture
this entity surface form:
The Bible (various editions)
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Sacred Scripture
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
subject surface form:
The Watchtower
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
canonical Christian Bible
subject surface form:
John of Patmos
this entity surface form:
Christian Bible
this entity surface form:
Authority of Scripture
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Christian Bible
this entity surface form:
Old Testament
this entity surface form:
Old and New Testaments
this entity surface form:
Old Testament