land of Tob
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The land of Tob is a region mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a place east of the Jordan River where outcasts and warriors, including Jephthah, gathered.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| land of Tob canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13050624 — 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: land of Tob Context triple: [Jephthah, livedIn, land of Tob]
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A.
Kamperland
Kamperland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Noord-Beveland and known as a coastal and recreational destination.
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B.
Arelerland
Arelerland is a historical region in southeastern Belgium, centered around the town of Arlon and known for its Luxembourgish cultural and linguistic heritage.
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C.
Worimi land
Worimi land refers to the traditional Country of the Worimi people, an Aboriginal nation of the New South Wales mid-north coast region in Australia.
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D.
Backaland
Backaland is a small settlement on the Orkney island of Eday in Scotland.
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E.
Terra do Sal
Terra do Sal is a nickname for Mossoró, a city in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte state known for its significant salt production.
- 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: land of Tob Target entity description: The land of Tob is a region mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a place east of the Jordan River where outcasts and warriors, including Jephthah, gathered.
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A.
Kamperland
Kamperland is a village in the Dutch province of Zeeland, located on the island of Noord-Beveland and known as a coastal and recreational destination.
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B.
Arelerland
Arelerland is a historical region in southeastern Belgium, centered around the town of Arlon and known for its Luxembourgish cultural and linguistic heritage.
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C.
Worimi land
Worimi land refers to the traditional Country of the Worimi people, an Aboriginal nation of the New South Wales mid-north coast region in Australia.
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D.
Backaland
Backaland is a small settlement on the Orkney island of Eday in Scotland.
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E.
Terra do Sal
Terra do Sal is a nickname for Mossoró, a city in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Norte state known for its significant salt production.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical region
ⓘ
geographical place in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jephthah ⓘ |
| describedAs |
place where outcasts gathered
ⓘ
place where warriors gathered ⓘ |
| hasCharacterAssociated |
Jephthah the Gileadite
ⓘ
linked to:
Jephthah
|
| hasPopulationType |
adventurers
ⓘ
outcasts ⓘ warriors ⓘ |
| hasVariantName | Tob ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| locatedEastOf | Jordan River ⓘ |
| locatedIn | region east of the Jordan River ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Judges 11 ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | background setting for rise of Jephthah as a leader ⓘ |
| partOf |
ancient Near East (biblical context)
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Near East
|
| possibleRegion |
area near Aram
ⓘ
area near Gilead ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
refuge for Jephthah after he fled from his brothers
ⓘ
staging ground for Jephthah before leading Israel against the Ammonites ⓘ |
| scripturalRole | place from which elders of Gilead summoned Jephthah ⓘ |
| uncertainModernLocation | true ⓘ |
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: land of Tob Description of subject: The land of Tob is a region mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a place east of the Jordan River where outcasts and warriors, including Jephthah, gathered.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.