Samaria
E28574
Samaria is a historical region in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the West Bank, known as the capital area of the northern Kingdom of Israel and a significant biblical and archaeological site.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samaria canonical | 88 |
| Samaria (region) | 3 |
| Israel | 1 |
| Samaria (Persian province) | 1 |
| Samaria (ancient city) | 1 |
| Samaria (in later northern kingdom context) | 1 |
| Samaria in the Kingdom of Israel | 1 |
| Samaria region | 1 |
| ancient Samaria | 1 |
| historical region of Samaria | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T133563 — 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: Samaria Context triple: [Judea, borders, Samaria]
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A.
Judea
Judea was an ancient region in the Levant, centered around Jerusalem, that served as a major cultural and religious heartland for the Jewish people and the early development of Christianity.
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B.
Canaan
Canaan is the ancient Near Eastern land traditionally associated with the biblical Promised Land, encompassing parts of modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and surrounding areas.
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C.
Galilee
Galilee is a region in northern Israel historically significant as the primary setting for much of Jesus Christ’s early life and ministry.
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D.
Jordan
Jordan is a Middle Eastern country located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, known for its ancient archaeological sites like Petra and its strategic political role in the region.
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E.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
- 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: Samaria Target entity description: Samaria is a historical region in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the West Bank, known as the capital area of the northern Kingdom of Israel and a significant biblical and archaeological site.
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A.
Judea
Judea was an ancient region in the Levant, centered around Jerusalem, that served as a major cultural and religious heartland for the Jewish people and the early development of Christianity.
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B.
Canaan
Canaan is the ancient Near Eastern land traditionally associated with the biblical Promised Land, encompassing parts of modern-day Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, and surrounding areas.
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C.
Galilee
Galilee is a region in northern Israel historically significant as the primary setting for much of Jesus Christ’s early life and ministry.
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D.
Jordan
Jordan is a Middle Eastern country located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, known for its ancient archaeological sites like Petra and its strategic political role in the region.
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E.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
archaeological site
ⓘ
biblical region ⓘ historical region ⓘ |
| approximateFoundationCentury | 9th century BCE ⓘ |
| arabicName | as-Sāmirah or as-Sāmiriyyah ⓘ |
| archaeologicalSignificance | major Iron Age and classical-period remains ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Samaritans ⓘ |
| biblicalRole |
center of the northern Kingdom of Israel
ⓘ
symbol of the northern tribes in prophetic literature ⓘ |
| borders |
Coastal Plain of Israel to the west
ⓘ
Galilee ⓘ
surface form:
Galilee to the north
Jordan Valley to the east ⓘ Judea to the south ⓘ |
| capitalOf |
Northern Kingdom of Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Israel
|
| conqueredBy |
Assyria
ⓘ
surface form:
Neo-Assyrian Empire
Sargon II ⓘ
surface form:
Sargon II of Assyria
|
| conquestDate | late 8th century BCE ⓘ |
| containsSite |
Sebaste
ⓘ
surface form:
Sebastia
ancient city of Samaria-Sebaste ⓘ |
| country |
Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
State of Israel
|
| foundedAs | capital city of the northern Kingdom of Israel ⓘ |
| foundedBy | King Omri ⓘ |
| greekName | Samareia ⓘ |
| hebrewName |
West Bank
ⓘ
surface form:
Shomron
|
| knownFor |
inscriptions
ⓘ
ivory carvings ⓘ royal Israelite architecture ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Hebrew ⓘ |
| laterRuledBy |
Neo-Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian Empire
Byzantine Empire ⓘ Islamic Caliphates ⓘ
surface form:
Early Islamic caliphates
Hasmonean dynasty ⓘ
surface form:
Hasmonean Kingdom
Hellenistic kingdoms ⓘ Achaemenid Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Persian Achaemenid Empire
Roman Empire ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
West Bank
ⓘ
central highlands of ancient Israel ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| modernAdministrativeUse | term used in Israeli administrative and political discourse for part of the West Bank ⓘ |
| modernPoliticalContext | partly within the West Bank under Israeli occupation ⓘ |
| nearModernCity | Nablus ⓘ |
| partOf |
Levant region
ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
Ancient Israel ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Israel
|
| religiousSignificance |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ Samaritanism ⓘ |
| servedAs | capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel ⓘ |
| terrain | mountainous highlands ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Iron Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Iron Age Levant
|
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: Samaria Description of subject: Samaria is a historical region in the central highlands of ancient Israel and the West Bank, known as the capital area of the northern Kingdom of Israel and a significant biblical and archaeological site.
Referenced by (99)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ancient Samaria
this entity surface form:
Samaria (region)
this entity surface form:
Samaria (ancient city)
this entity surface form:
Israel
subject surface form:
Annals of Sargon II
this entity surface form:
historical region of Samaria
subject surface form:
Tribe of Ephraim
this entity surface form:
Samaria (in later northern kingdom context)
subject surface form:
as-Sāmirah