the brother of Jared
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The brother of Jared is a prominent prophetic leader in the Book of Mormon narrative who guides the Jaredites during their divinely directed journey to the promised land and is noted for his exceptional faith and visionary experiences.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the brother of Jared canonical | 2 |
| Enoch son of Jared | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9400067 — 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: the brother of Jared Context triple: [Jaredites, keyFigure, the brother of Jared]
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A.
Nephi
Nephi is a prominent prophet and early leader in the Book of Mormon, regarded as the righteous founder and namesake of the Nephite civilization.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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D.
Moroni
Moroni is a key figure in Latter-day Saint scripture, revered as the last Nephite prophet who compiled and buried the golden plates later translated as the Book of Mormon.
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E.
Moroni
Moroni is the given first name of American silent film actor and comedian Mack Swain.
- 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: the brother of Jared Target entity description: The brother of Jared is a prominent prophetic leader in the Book of Mormon narrative who guides the Jaredites during their divinely directed journey to the promised land and is noted for his exceptional faith and visionary experiences.
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A.
Nephi
Nephi is a prominent prophet and early leader in the Book of Mormon, regarded as the righteous founder and namesake of the Nephite civilization.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Moroni
Moroni is a key figure in Latter-day Saint scripture, revered as the last Nephite prophet who compiled and buried the golden plates later translated as the Book of Mormon.
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E.
Moroni
Moroni is the given first name of American silent film actor and comedian Mack Swain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Book of Mormon character
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Jaredite leader ⓘ prophet ⓘ |
| action |
carried stones to the top of a mountain
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molten sixteen small stones from rock ⓘ prayed that the language of his family would not be confounded ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of Ether
NERFINISHED
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Book of Mormon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | confounding of languages at the Tower of Babel ⓘ |
| associatedWithObject | barges built for ocean crossing ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | mount Shelem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithText | sealed portion of the gold plates ⓘ |
| covenant | received knowledge that his record would come forth in the last days ⓘ |
| describedIn | Ether 1–6 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyRelation | brother of Jared (Jaredite patriarch) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| guidedBy | the Lord ⓘ |
| journeyedTo | the promised land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
exceptional faith
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prayer of great faith at the Tower of Babel era ⓘ receiving divine instructions for oceanic travel ⓘ seeing the premortal Christ ⓘ visionary experiences ⓘ |
| languageStatus | language preserved by God from being confounded ⓘ |
| ledGroup | Jaredites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ledTo | establishment of the Jaredite civilization in the promised land ⓘ |
| praisedBy | Moroni for exceeding faith ⓘ |
| prayedTo | the Lord to touch the stones ⓘ |
| problemFaced |
air supply in the barges
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lack of light in the barges ⓘ |
| proposedSolution | molten stones to provide light ⓘ |
| reaction | fell with fear when he saw the finger of the Lord ⓘ |
| receivedCommandment |
to gather flocks and seeds
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to gather his family and friends ⓘ to travel to a land choice above all other lands ⓘ |
| receivedFrom | promise from God to lead his people to a promised land ⓘ |
| receivedInstruction | to make holes in the barges for air ⓘ |
| record | visionary account sealed up by Moroni ⓘ |
| religiousRole | mediator between God and the Jaredites ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Latter-day Saint movement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
prophetic guide during the Jaredite migration
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spiritual leader of the Jaredites ⓘ |
| scripturalAssessment | no man had before exercised such great faith as the brother of Jared ⓘ |
| theology |
learned that Christ would take upon him flesh and blood
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learned that man was created in the image of Christ ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post–Tower of Babel era (ancient Near East, traditional LDS chronology) ⓘ |
| vision |
saw the finger of the Lord touch the stones
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saw the premortal body of Jesus Christ ⓘ |
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: the brother of Jared Description of subject: The brother of Jared is a prominent prophetic leader in the Book of Mormon narrative who guides the Jaredites during their divinely directed journey to the promised land and is noted for his exceptional faith and visionary experiences.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Enoch son of Jared