Enosh
E328621
Enosh is a biblical figure recognized as a grandson of Adam and an early patriarch in the Book of Genesis.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Enosh canonical | 2 |
| Enoch | 1 |
| Enosh lived 905 years | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3122793 — 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: Enosh Context triple: [Seth, hasNotableDescendant, Enosh]
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A.
Jokshan
Jokshan is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Abraham by his wife Keturah.
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B.
Enoch
Enoch is a biblical and Qur’anic prophet revered for his exceptional piety and, in many traditions, for being taken up by God without experiencing death.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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E.
Peleg
Peleg is a retired whaling captain and part-owner of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
- 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: Enosh Target entity description: Enosh is a biblical figure recognized as a grandson of Adam and an early patriarch in the Book of Genesis.
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A.
Jokshan
Jokshan is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Abraham by his wife Keturah.
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B.
Enoch
Enoch is a biblical and Qur’anic prophet revered for his exceptional piety and, in many traditions, for being taken up by God without experiencing death.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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E.
Peleg
Peleg is a retired whaling captain and part-owner of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
patriarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Enos ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Abraham
ⓘ
Israelites ⓘ Noah ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Genesis 4
ⓘ
Genesis 5 ⓘ |
| describedAs | early patriarch ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Kenan ⓘ |
| generationFromAdam | third generation ⓘ |
| grandsonOf |
Adam
ⓘ
Eve ⓘ |
| languageForm | Hebrew: אֱנוֹשׁ ⓘ |
| listedIn | genealogy from Adam to Noah ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
frail
ⓘ
man ⓘ mortal ⓘ |
| partOf | Genesis genealogies ⓘ |
| religiousCategory | Old Testament figure ⓘ |
| roleInText | link between Adam and later patriarchs ⓘ |
| sonOf | Seth ⓘ |
| timePeriod | antediluvian era ⓘ |
| tradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Islamic tradition ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam (as a righteous ancestor) ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
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: Enosh Description of subject: Enosh is a biblical figure recognized as a grandson of Adam and an early patriarch in the Book of Genesis.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Enoch
this entity surface form:
Enosh lived 905 years