Sodom
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Sodom is an ancient biblical city, traditionally depicted in the Book of Genesis as a center of grave wickedness that was ultimately destroyed by divine judgment.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sodom canonical | 7 |
| Sodomites | 1 |
| overthrown cities of Sodom | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4761943 — 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: Sodom Context triple: [Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, hasLocation, Sodom]
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A.
Sodom
Sodom is a small hamlet within the town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known primarily as a local residential community.
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B.
Erechim
Erechim is a city in southern Brazil known for its strong German-Brazilian cultural heritage and influence.
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C.
Churban
Churban is a Jewish term referring to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and, by extension, catastrophic national calamities in Jewish history.
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D.
Gorgon City
Gorgon City is a British electronic music production and DJ duo known for their house and garage-influenced tracks and high-profile collaborations.
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E.
Radwar
Radwar is a prominent Polish defense company known for developing and producing advanced radar and air-defense systems.
- 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: Sodom Target entity description: Sodom is an ancient biblical city, traditionally depicted in the Book of Genesis as a center of grave wickedness that was ultimately destroyed by divine judgment.
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A.
Sodom
Sodom is a small hamlet within the town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known primarily as a local residential community.
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B.
Erechim
Erechim is a city in southern Brazil known for its strong German-Brazilian cultural heritage and influence.
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C.
Churban
Churban is a Jewish term referring to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and, by extension, catastrophic national calamities in Jewish history.
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D.
Gorgon City
Gorgon City is a British electronic music production and DJ duo known for their house and garage-influenced tracks and high-profile collaborations.
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E.
Radwar
Radwar is a prominent Polish defense company known for developing and producing advanced radar and air-defense systems.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
biblical city ⓘ destroyed city ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Quranic narratives ⓘ |
| archaeologicalStatus | location debated among scholars ⓘ |
| associatedFigure | Abraham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedProphet | Lot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Admah
NERFINISHED
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Gomorrah NERFINISHED ⓘ Zeboiim NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Book of Genesis
NERFINISHED
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Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ Tanakh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| destroyedBy |
God
NERFINISHED
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divine judgment ⓘ fire and brimstone ⓘ |
| destroyedInText | Genesis 19 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| etymologyClaim | possibly related to Hebrew root for burning ⓘ |
| event |
Abraham’s intercession for the city
ⓘ
rescue of Lot by angels ⓘ |
| governedBy | King of Sodom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
grave wickedness
ⓘ
inhospitality ⓘ sexual immorality ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedInNarrative | Jordan River plain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNearNarrative | Dead Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Revelation
NERFINISHED
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Epistle of Jude NERFINISHED ⓘ Gospel of Luke ⓘ Gospel of Matthew ⓘ New Testament ⓘ Second Epistle of Peter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| moralLesson |
warning against inhospitality
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warning against sin ⓘ warning against social injustice ⓘ |
| nameInHebrew | סְדוֹם NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Cities of the Plain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| status | destroyed in biblical narrative ⓘ |
| symbolOf |
cities under judgment
ⓘ
divine judgment ⓘ extreme wickedness ⓘ moral corruption ⓘ |
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: Sodom Description of subject: Sodom is an ancient biblical city, traditionally depicted in the Book of Genesis as a center of grave wickedness that was ultimately destroyed by divine judgment.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Lut
this entity surface form:
Sodomites
this entity surface form:
overthrown cities of Sodom