Qeiyafa ostracon
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The Qeiyafa ostracon is an inscribed pottery shard discovered at Tel Qeiyafa in Israel, notable for containing one of the earliest known examples of Hebrew or proto-Canaanite writing and offering insights into early Israelite society.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kh. Qeiyafa ostracon | 1 |
| Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon | 1 |
| Qeiyafa ostracon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T17791326 — 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: Qeiyafa ostracon Context triple: [Tel Qeiyafa, hasArchaeologicalFind, Qeiyafa ostracon]
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A.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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B.
Lemnian stele
The Lemnian stele is an ancient inscribed stone slab discovered on the island of Lemnos that bears one of the few known texts in the extinct Lemnian language, closely related to Etruscan.
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C.
Elephantine papyri
The Elephantine papyri are a collection of ancient Jewish and administrative documents from a Persian-period garrison community on Elephantine Island in Egypt, offering key insights into daily life, religion, and law in the 5th century BCE.
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D.
Tabula of Cebes
The Tabula of Cebes is an ancient Greek philosophical allegory, presented as a dialogue interpreting a symbolic picture of human life and moral progress.
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E.
Ras Shamra tablets
The Ras Shamra tablets are a cache of Late Bronze Age cuneiform texts from ancient Ugarit that preserve a rich corpus of Northwest Semitic mythology, poetry, and administrative records crucial for understanding Canaanite religion and early alphabetic writing.
- 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: Qeiyafa ostracon Target entity description: The Qeiyafa ostracon is an inscribed pottery shard discovered at Tel Qeiyafa in Israel, notable for containing one of the earliest known examples of Hebrew or proto-Canaanite writing and offering insights into early Israelite society.
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A.
Pyrgi Tablets
The Pyrgi Tablets are a set of ancient gold inscriptions from the 5th century BCE bearing parallel texts in Etruscan and Phoenician, making them a key source for understanding the Etruscan language and its cultural contacts.
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B.
Lemnian stele
The Lemnian stele is an ancient inscribed stone slab discovered on the island of Lemnos that bears one of the few known texts in the extinct Lemnian language, closely related to Etruscan.
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C.
Elephantine papyri
The Elephantine papyri are a collection of ancient Jewish and administrative documents from a Persian-period garrison community on Elephantine Island in Egypt, offering key insights into daily life, religion, and law in the 5th century BCE.
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D.
Tabula of Cebes
The Tabula of Cebes is an ancient Greek philosophical allegory, presented as a dialogue interpreting a symbolic picture of human life and moral progress.
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E.
Ras Shamra tablets
The Ras Shamra tablets are a cache of Late Bronze Age cuneiform texts from ancient Ugarit that preserve a rich corpus of Northwest Semitic mythology, poetry, and administrative records crucial for understanding Canaanite religion and early alphabetic writing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Qeiyafa ostracon
linked to: Qeiyafa ostracon