Zerah
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Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Judah and Tamar.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4405686 — 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: Zerah Context triple: [Judah son of Jacob, child, Zerah]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Dagan
Dagan is an ancient Northwest Semitic god, particularly revered by the Amorites and later in Mesopotamia, commonly associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the underworld.
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E.
Zorah
Zorah was an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan, known from the Hebrew Bible as the hometown of Samson.
- 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: Zerah Target entity description: Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Judah and Tamar.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
Dagan
Dagan is an ancient Northwest Semitic god, particularly revered by the Amorites and later in Mesopotamia, commonly associated with grain, fertility, and sometimes the underworld.
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E.
Zorah
Zorah was an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan, known from the Hebrew Bible as the hometown of Samson.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| ancestralLine |
descendant of Abraham
ⓘ
descendant of Jacob ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | Genesis 38 ⓘ |
| associatedWithSymbol | scarlet thread ⓘ |
| birthOrderRelativeToTwin | second-born ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | minor biblical character ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Israelite
ⓘ
linked to:
Israelites
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasParent |
Judah
ⓘ
linked to:
Yehuda
Tamar ⓘ |
| hasSibling | Perez ⓘ |
| hasTwin | Perez ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| nameInHebrew | זֶרַח ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
House of David (distant ancestor within tribe of Judah)
ⓘ
linked to:
House of David
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
son of Judah and Tamar
ⓘ
younger twin in birth narrative ⓘ |
| scripturalCanon |
Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ |
| textualGenreContext | biblical narrative ⓘ |
| transliteration |
Zeraḥ
ⓘ
linked to:
Zerach
|
| tribe | Tribe of Judah ⓘ |
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: Zerah Description of subject: Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Judah and Tamar.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.