Ruth
E19795
Ruth is a book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament that tells the story of a Moabite woman whose loyalty and faith lead to her becoming an ancestor of King David.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth canonical | 21 |
| Book of Ruth | 5 |
| Ruth and Boaz | 2 |
| Ruth the Moabite | 2 |
| Naomi (mother-in-law of Ruth) | 1 |
| Reading of the Book of Ruth | 1 |
| Ruth (biblical figure) | 1 |
| Ruth is Naomi's daughter-in-law | 1 |
| Ruth, the biblical figure | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T157982 — 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: Ruth Context triple: [Writings, containsBook, Ruth]
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A.
Ruth
Ruth is the given name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
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B.
Rita
Rita is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often as a short form of names like Margarita.
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C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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D.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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E.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Ruth Target entity description: Ruth is a book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament that tells the story of a Moabite woman whose loyalty and faith lead to her becoming an ancestor of King David.
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A.
Ruth
Ruth is the given name of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the pioneering U.S. Supreme Court Justice and prominent advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
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B.
Rita
Rita is a feminine given name used in various cultures, often as a short form of names like Margarita.
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C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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D.
Barbara
Barbara is a feminine given name of Greek origin that has been widely used in many cultures and languages.
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E.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical book
ⓘ
book of the Hebrew Bible ⓘ book of the Old Testament ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus |
canonical in Catholicism
ⓘ
canonical in Eastern Orthodoxy ⓘ canonical in Judaism ⓘ canonical in Protestantism ⓘ |
| concludesWith | genealogy from Perez to David ⓘ |
| containsGenealogyOf |
Jesse
ⓘ
King David ⓘ Obed ⓘ |
| featuresCustom |
gleaning
ⓘ
kinsman-redeemer ⓘ levirate-like marriage ⓘ |
| follows |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
|
| genre |
narrative
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| hasApproximateDateOfComposition | Persian period (approx. 5th–4th century BCE) ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
Hebrew
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Hebrew
|
| hasMainCharacter |
Boaz
ⓘ
Naomi ⓘ Ruth self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfChapters | 4 ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
divine providence
ⓘ
faithfulness ⓘ inclusion of foreigners ⓘ kindness ⓘ loyalty ⓘ redemption ⓘ |
| identifiesRuthAs | Moabite woman ⓘ |
| mentionsFigure |
Chilion
ⓘ
Elimelech ⓘ Mahlon ⓘ Orpah ⓘ |
| narratesEvent |
Ruth’s loyalty to Naomi
ⓘ
Ruth’s marriage to Boaz ⓘ Ruth’s migration from Moab to Bethlehem ⓘ birth of Obed ⓘ |
| partOf |
Bible
ⓘ
surface form:
Christian Old Testament
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Ketuvim ⓘ Writings ⓘ |
| precedes |
1 Samuel
ⓘ
surface form:
First Book of Samuel
|
| readOn | Shavuot ⓘ |
| recognizedInTraditionAs | ancestor narrative of David ⓘ |
| setIn |
Bethlehem
ⓘ
Judges period ⓘ Moab ⓘ |
| usedIn | Jewish liturgy ⓘ |
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: Ruth Description of subject: Ruth is a book of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament that tells the story of a Moabite woman whose loyalty and faith lead to her becoming an ancestor of King David.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Shavuot
this entity surface form:
Reading of the Book of Ruth
this entity surface form:
Book of Ruth
this entity surface form:
Book of Ruth
subject surface form:
Book of Judges
this entity surface form:
Book of Ruth
subject surface form:
Book of Ruth
this entity surface form:
Book of Ruth
this entity surface form:
Ruth the Moabite
subject surface form:
The Four Seasons (Poussin)
this entity surface form:
Ruth and Boaz
subject surface form:
Summer (Poussin)
this entity surface form:
Ruth and Boaz
this entity surface form:
Ruth, the biblical figure
this entity surface form:
Ruth is Naomi's daughter-in-law
this entity surface form:
Naomi (mother-in-law of Ruth)
this entity surface form:
Ruth (biblical figure)