Abraham
E9364
biblical patriarch
founding patriarch
prophet in Christianity
prophet in Islam
prophet in Judaism
religious figure
Abraham is a foundational patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, revered as the ancestor of the Israelites and a central figure in Jewish religious tradition.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abraham canonical | 202 |
| Avraham | 6 |
| patriarch Abraham | 3 |
| Abram | 2 |
| Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) | 2 |
| Isaac | 1 |
| Patriarch Abraham | 1 |
| Patriarchs of the Israelites | 1 |
| Prophet Ibrahim | 1 |
| אברהם אבינו | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T35306 — 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: Abraham Context triple: [Judaism, hasKeyFigure, Abraham]
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A.
Abraham
Abraham is the given name of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
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B.
Avram
Avram is the given first name of Noam Chomsky, the influential American linguist, philosopher, and political activist.
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C.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the husband of Mary in the New Testament and the earthly guardian of Jesus, venerated in Christianity as a model of humility, obedience, and fatherhood.
- 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: Abraham Target entity description: Abraham is a foundational patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, revered as the ancestor of the Israelites and a central figure in Jewish religious tradition.
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A.
Abraham
Abraham is the given name of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States who led the country through the Civil War and abolished slavery.
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B.
Avram
Avram is the given first name of Noam Chomsky, the influential American linguist, philosopher, and political activist.
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C.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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D.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the husband of Mary in the New Testament and the earthly guardian of Jesus, venerated in Christianity as a model of humility, obedience, and fatherhood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical patriarch
ⓘ
founding patriarch ⓘ prophet in Christianity ⓘ prophet in Islam ⓘ prophet in Judaism ⓘ religious figure ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Abraham
ⓘ
surface form:
Abram
Abraham ⓘ
surface form:
Avraham
Ibrahim ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Canaan
ⓘ
Haran ⓘ Ur of the Chaldeans ⓘ |
| centralFigureOf | Abrahamic religions ⓘ |
| child |
Isaac
ⓘ
Ishbak ⓘ Ishmael ⓘ Zimran ⓘ
surface form:
Jokshan
Medan ⓘ Midian ⓘ Shuah ⓘ Zimran ⓘ |
| consideredAncestorOf |
Ishmaelites
ⓘ
Jews ⓘ
surface form:
Israelites
Jewish people ⓘ many nations ⓘ |
| covenantWith | God ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| liturgicalCommemoration |
Eid al-Adha
ⓘ
Rosh Hashanah readings ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | father of a multitude ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
New Testament ⓘ Quran ⓘ Torah ⓘ |
| nameChangedBy | God ⓘ |
| predecessorName |
Abraham
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Abram
|
| reveredIn |
Baha'i Faith
ⓘ
surface form:
Baháʼí Faith
Christianity ⓘ Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| signOfCovenant | circumcision ⓘ |
| spouse |
Hagar
ⓘ
Keturah ⓘ Sarah ⓘ |
| testedBy |
Binding of Isaac
ⓘ
surface form:
binding of Isaac
|
| theme |
covenant
ⓘ
faith ⓘ obedience to God ⓘ |
| veneratedAs |
model of faith in Christianity
ⓘ
model of faith in Judaism ⓘ model of submission in Islam ⓘ |
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: Abraham Description of subject: Abraham is a foundational patriarch in the Hebrew Bible, revered as the ancestor of the Israelites and a central figure in Jewish religious tradition.
Referenced by (220)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
"Abraham says they have Moses and the Prophets"
subject surface form:
"Abraham says they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead"
subject surface form:
Beth Sarim
subject surface form:
יִשְׁבָּק
subject surface form:
שכם
this entity surface form:
patriarch Abraham
subject surface form:
Jacob