Ephah
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Ephah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a descendant of Abraham through his wife Keturah and their son Midian.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ephah canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2307603 — 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: Ephah Context triple: [Keturah, hasDescendantThroughMidian, Ephah]
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A.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Ephraim
Ephraim is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s younger son and known for its prominence in the northern kingdom.
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C.
Tahawus
Tahawus is a remote hamlet in New York’s Adirondack Mountains known for its historic iron mining operations and proximity to High Peaks wilderness areas.
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D.
Bene Ephraim
Bene Ephraim are a small Telugu-speaking community in India that identifies as Jewish, tracing their origins to ancient Israelite ancestry and practicing a form of Judaism blended with local traditions.
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E.
Abinadab
Abinadab is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as one of King David’s brothers and a son of Jesse of Bethlehem.
- 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: Ephah Target entity description: Ephah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a descendant of Abraham through his wife Keturah and their son Midian.
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A.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Ephraim
Ephraim is one of the tribes of Israel, traditionally descended from Joseph’s younger son and known for its prominence in the northern kingdom.
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C.
Tahawus
Tahawus is a remote hamlet in New York’s Adirondack Mountains known for its historic iron mining operations and proximity to High Peaks wilderness areas.
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D.
Bene Ephraim
Bene Ephraim are a small Telugu-speaking community in India that identifies as Jewish, tracing their origins to ancient Israelite ancestry and practicing a form of Judaism blended with local traditions.
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E.
Abinadab
Abinadab is a son of King Saul mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known for dying alongside his father in battle against the Philistines.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearsInTradition |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Midian ⓘ |
| childOf | Midian ⓘ |
| descendantOf |
Abraham
ⓘ
Keturah ⓘ |
| describedIn | Genesis 25 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrCulturalIdentity | Midianite ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandchildOf |
Abraham
ⓘ
Keturah ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Terah ⓘ |
| hasNameForm | עֵיפָה ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Isaac
ⓘ
Ishmael ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| siblingOf |
Abida
ⓘ
Eldaah ⓘ Epher ⓘ Hanoch ⓘ |
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: Ephah Description of subject: Ephah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a descendant of Abraham through his wife Keturah and their son Midian.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.