Tribe of Dan
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The Tribe of Dan was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Dan and associated with territory in the coastal region of ancient Canaan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tribe of Dan canonical | 18 |
| tribe of Dan | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T742230 — 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: Tribe of Dan Context triple: [Tribe of Judah, borderedBy, Tribe of Dan]
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A.
Tribe of Benjamin
The Tribe of Benjamin was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, historically located between Judah and the northern tribes and known for producing Israel’s first king, Saul.
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B.
Tribe of Simeon
The Tribe of Simeon was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Simeon son of Jacob, and allotted territory in the southern part of ancient Israel.
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C.
Tribe of Judah
The Tribe of Judah was one of the twelve tribes of ancient Israel, traditionally associated with leadership, the Davidic monarchy, and the lineage from which Jewish and Christian messianic expectations arise.
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D.
Tribe of Levi
The Tribe of Levi is one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally designated for religious duties and priestly service in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Edomite
Edomite was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.
- 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: Tribe of Dan Target entity description: The Tribe of Dan was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Dan and associated with territory in the coastal region of ancient Canaan.
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A.
Tribe of Benjamin
The Tribe of Benjamin was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, historically located between Judah and the northern tribes and known for producing Israel’s first king, Saul.
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B.
Tribe of Simeon
The Tribe of Simeon was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Simeon son of Jacob, and allotted territory in the southern part of ancient Israel.
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C.
Tribe of Judah
The Tribe of Judah was one of the twelve tribes of ancient Israel, traditionally associated with leadership, the Davidic monarchy, and the lineage from which Jewish and Christian messianic expectations arise.
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D.
Tribe of Levi
The Tribe of Levi is one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally designated for religious duties and priestly service in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Edomite
Edomite was an extinct Northwest Semitic language once spoken by the ancient Edomites in the region south of the Kingdom of Judah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Israelite tribe
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ biblical tribe ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Danites ⓘ |
| ancestralMatriarch | Bilhah ⓘ |
| ancestralPatriarch | Jacob ⓘ |
| associatedWith | northern cultic site at Dan ⓘ |
| borderedBy |
Philistines
ⓘ
Tribe of Benjamin ⓘ Tribe of Judah ⓘ |
| capital |
Dan (Laish)
ⓘ
Eshtaol ⓘ Zorah ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Israel
|
| ethnicGroup | Israelites ⓘ |
| father | Jacob ⓘ |
| founder | Dan ⓘ |
| genealogicalOrigin | son of Jacob ⓘ |
| hasRole | constituent tribe of the Kingdom of Israel ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the city of Dan near the sources of the Jordan River
ⓘ
migration to the north described in the Book of Judges ⓘ participation in conquest narratives in the Book of Joshua ⓘ |
| language | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Divrei Hayamim
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Chronicles
Book of Genesis ⓘ Book of Joshua ⓘ Judges ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
|
| mother | Bilhah ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Dan ⓘ |
| partOf | Twelve Tribes of Israel ⓘ |
| region |
Levant region
ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
|
| religion | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ Samaritanism ⓘ |
| sacredText |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| statusInRevelation | omitted from the list of sealed tribes in the Book of Revelation ⓘ |
| symbolInTradition |
scales
ⓘ
serpent ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Iron Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Iron Age Levant
Late Bronze Age Levant ⓘ |
| traditionalTerritory |
area north of the tribe of Judah
ⓘ
area west of the tribe of Benjamin ⓘ coastal region of ancient Canaan ⓘ vicinity of Ekron ⓘ vicinity of Joppa ⓘ |
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: Tribe of Dan Description of subject: The Tribe of Dan was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Jacob’s son Dan and associated with territory in the coastal region of ancient Canaan.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tribe of Naftali
subject surface form:
Shfela
subject surface form:
Tribe of Ephraim
this entity surface form:
tribe of Dan
subject surface form:
Jacob
this entity surface form:
tribe of Dan
this entity surface form:
tribe of Dan
this entity surface form:
tribe of Dan
this entity surface form:
tribe of Dan