Peniel
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Peniel is the biblical location where Jacob is said to have wrestled with a divine being and named the place as the face of God.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peniel canonical | 5 |
| Peniel (biblical place) | 1 |
| Penoach | 1 |
| palm of Deborah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4762039 — 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: Peniel Context triple: [Stories of Jacob, associatedWithPlace, Peniel]
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A.
Ozian
Ozian refers to a fictional inhabitant of the Land of Oz, the magical realm featured in L. Frank Baum’s Oz book series.
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B.
Gabrielino
Gabrielino refers to the Indigenous Tongva people native to the Los Angeles Basin and Southern Channel Islands in California.
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C.
Zeilin
Zeilin is a surname most notably associated with Jacob Zeilin, the first United States Marine Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
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D.
Nelion
Nelion is one of the main twin summits of Mount Kenya, renowned among climbers for its challenging rock routes and high-altitude alpine terrain.
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E.
Loralai
Loralai is a town and district in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, known historically as a regional administrative and trade center.
- 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: Peniel Target entity description: Peniel is the biblical location where Jacob is said to have wrestled with a divine being and named the place as the face of God.
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A.
Ozian
Ozian refers to a fictional inhabitant of the Land of Oz, the magical realm featured in L. Frank Baum’s Oz book series.
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B.
Gabrielino
Gabrielino refers to the Indigenous Tongva people native to the Los Angeles Basin and Southern Channel Islands in California.
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C.
Zeilin
Zeilin is a surname most notably associated with Jacob Zeilin, the first United States Marine Corps officer to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general.
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D.
Nelion
Nelion is one of the main twin summits of Mount Kenya, renowned among climbers for its challenging rock routes and high-altitude alpine terrain.
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E.
Loralai
Loralai is a town and district in northern Balochistan, Pakistan, known historically as a regional administrative and trade center.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical location
ⓘ
place in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Jacob wrestling with a divine being ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure |
Gideon
ⓘ
God ⓘ Jacob ⓘ |
| associatedWithStructure | tower of Penuel ⓘ |
| associatedWithTribe | tribe of Gad ⓘ |
| category |
Biblical Hebrew place names
ⓘ
Places in the Torah ⓘ |
| describedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom | Hebrew word for "face of God" ⓘ |
| eventAtLocation | Gideon punished the men of Penuel ⓘ |
| hasLaterReference |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
|
| hasNameVariant | Penuel ⓘ |
| hasTheologicalSignificance |
place of divine encounter
ⓘ
symbol of seeing God and living ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn | region of Transjordan ⓘ |
| locatedNear |
Jabbok River
ⓘ
linked to:
Jabbok
|
| mentionedIn |
Genesis 32
ⓘ
Judges 8 ⓘ |
| namedBy | Jacob ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | "face of God" ⓘ |
| partOf |
Jacob cycle in Genesis
ⓘ
linked to:
Stories of Jacob
patriarchal narratives ⓘ |
| relatedQuote | "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved" ⓘ |
| relatedToConcept |
divine encounter
ⓘ
theophany ⓘ wrestling with God ⓘ |
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: Peniel Description of subject: Peniel is the biblical location where Jacob is said to have wrestled with a divine being and named the place as the face of God.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.