Lamb of God
E4636
Lamb of God is a Christian theological title for Jesus Christ that emphasizes his role as the sacrificial offering who takes away the sins of the world.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lamb of God canonical | 14 |
| The Lamb of God | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T34983 — 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: Lamb of God Context triple: [Jesus Christ, title, Lamb of God]
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A.
Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep is the deepest known point in the Atlantic Ocean, located within the Puerto Rico Trench.
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B.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
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C.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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D.
Prophets
Prophets is a major section of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament that contains the writings and historical accounts of Israel’s prophetic figures and their messages.
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E.
Bronk
Bronk is a surname most notably associated with Detlev W. Bronk, an influential American scientist and educator who helped shape modern biophysics and higher education policy.
- 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: Lamb of God Target entity description: Lamb of God is a Christian theological title for Jesus Christ that emphasizes his role as the sacrificial offering who takes away the sins of the world.
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A.
Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep is the deepest known point in the Atlantic Ocean, located within the Puerto Rico Trench.
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B.
Yma Sumac
Yma Sumac was a renowned Peruvian soprano celebrated for her extraordinary vocal range and exoticized "Incan princess" persona in mid-20th-century popular and classical music.
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C.
Dream Machines
Dream Machines is the visionary second half of Ted Nelson’s influential 1974 book that imagines interactive, hypertext-based computers as tools for personal creativity and liberation.
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D.
Prophets
Prophets is a major section of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament that contains the writings and historical accounts of Israel’s prophetic figures and their messages.
-
E.
Bronk
Bronk is a surname most notably associated with Detlev W. Bronk, an influential American scientist and educator who helped shape modern biophysics and higher education policy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Christian theological concept
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Christological title ⓘ |
| appearsIn | New Testament ⓘ |
| associatedWithDoctrine |
atonement
ⓘ
forgiveness of sins ⓘ redemption ⓘ salvation ⓘ substitutionary sacrifice ⓘ |
| biblicalBasis | Gospel of John ⓘ |
| connectedToEvent |
Crucifixion of Jesus
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Last Supper ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Lion of Judah ⓘ |
| emphasizesRoleAs | sacrificial offering ⓘ |
| eschatologicalRole | heavenly lamb in the Book of Revelation ⓘ |
| iconographicAttribute |
lamb bearing a cross
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lamb with a banner ⓘ |
| invokedAs | Agnus Dei in liturgical prayers ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Greek ⓘ |
| liturgicalUse |
Christian liturgy
ⓘ
Holy Eucharist ⓘ
surface form:
Eucharist
Mass ⓘ |
| originalForm | Agnus Dei ⓘ |
| originalFormLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| petitionFormula |
grant us peace
ⓘ
have mercy on us ⓘ |
| proclaimedBy | John the Baptist ⓘ |
| refersTo | Jesus Christ ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Isaiah’s suffering servant
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Passover lamb ⓘ sacrificial system of the Old Testament ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| scripturalReference |
John 1:29
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John 1:36 ⓘ Revelation 13:8 ⓘ Book of Revelation ⓘ
surface form:
Revelation 5
Revelation 7 ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
innocence
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obedience ⓘ purity ⓘ sacrifice ⓘ |
| takesAway | sins of the world ⓘ |
| theologicalTheme |
Christ as sacrificial lamb
ⓘ
reconciliation between God and humanity ⓘ vicarious suffering ⓘ |
| usedByTradition |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ
surface form:
Orthodox Church
Protestant churches ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Christian hymnody
ⓘ
Christian iconography ⓘ |
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: Lamb of God Description of subject: Lamb of God is a Christian theological title for Jesus Christ that emphasizes his role as the sacrificial offering who takes away the sins of the world.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book of Life
subject surface form:
Seven Seals
subject surface form:
Whore of Babylon
subject surface form:
Gospel of John
this entity surface form:
The Lamb of God