Amora
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An Amora was a Jewish Talmudic sage of the post-Mishnaic era, known for interpreting and elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amora canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13243111 — 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: Amora Context triple: [Resh Lakish, legalAuthorityType, Amora]
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Arella
Arella is a character in DC Comics, best known as the human mother of the Teen Titans member Raven and a former acolyte of the interdimensional demon Trigon.
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Amorina
Amorina is a 19th-century Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, known for its romantic and psychological depth within early modern Swedish literature.
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C.
Marisus
Marisus is the historical Latin name for the Mureș River, a major waterway flowing through present-day Romania and Hungary.
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D.
Ortanella
Ortanella is a small hamlet in the municipality of Esino Lario in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
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E.
Carpo
Carpo is a small, irregularly shaped outer moon of Jupiter with a distant, inclined orbit.
- 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: Amora Target entity description: An Amora was a Jewish Talmudic sage of the post-Mishnaic era, known for interpreting and elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara.
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A.
Arella
Arella is a character in DC Comics, best known as the human mother of the Teen Titans member Raven and a former acolyte of the interdimensional demon Trigon.
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B.
Amorina
Amorina is a 19th-century Swedish novel by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist, known for its romantic and psychological depth within early modern Swedish literature.
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C.
Marisus
Marisus is the historical Latin name for the Mureș River, a major waterway flowing through present-day Romania and Hungary.
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D.
Ortanella
Ortanella is a small hamlet in the municipality of Esino Lario in the Lombardy region of northern Italy.
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E.
Carpo
Carpo is a small, irregularly shaped outer moon of Jupiter with a distant, inclined orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish religious scholar
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Talmudic sage ⓘ rabbinic sage ⓘ |
| activeInCentury |
3rd century CE
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4th century CE ⓘ 5th century CE ⓘ |
| associatedWork |
Gemara
ⓘ
linked to:
Talmud Bavli
Mishnah ⓘ Talmud ⓘ |
| contributedTo |
Babylonian Talmud
ⓘ
linked to:
Talmud Bavli
Jerusalem Talmud ⓘ
linked to:
Talmud Yerushalmi
|
| etymology | Aramaic term meaning "speaker" or "interpreter" ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Aggadah
ⓘ
Halakha ⓘ Talmudic interpretation ⓘ |
| follows | Tanna ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm | Amoraim ⓘ |
| historicalContext | rabbinic Judaism ⓘ |
| language |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| mainActivity |
elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara
ⓘ
interpreting the Mishnah ⓘ |
| occupation |
jurist
ⓘ
religious leader ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| partOf | Amoraic period ⓘ |
| precedes | Savora ⓘ |
| region |
Babylonia
ⓘ
linked to:
Babylon
Land of Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Eretz HaKodesh
|
| religiousDiscipline | Oral Torah ⓘ |
| religiousStatus | rabbinic authority ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| role |
author of Talmudic statements
ⓘ
expounder of Jewish law ⓘ interpreter of the Mishnah ⓘ teacher of Torah ⓘ |
| sourceOf |
Talmudic discussions
ⓘ
aggadic teachings ⓘ halakhic rulings ⓘ |
| studiesAt | yeshiva ⓘ |
| subclassOf | rabbi ⓘ |
| teachesAt | yeshiva ⓘ |
| timePeriod | post-Mishnaic era ⓘ |
| transmitsTraditionFrom | Tannaim ⓘ |
| transmitsTraditionTo | Savoraim ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Amora Description of subject: An Amora was a Jewish Talmudic sage of the post-Mishnaic era, known for interpreting and elaborating on the Mishnah in the Gemara.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.