גְּרָר (Hebrew: Gerar)
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גְּרָר (Gerar) is an ancient Philistine city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, associated with the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac in the Book of Genesis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| גְּרָר (Hebrew: Gerar) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4762171 — 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: גְּרָר (Hebrew: Gerar) Context triple: [Gerar, hasNameForm, גְּרָר (Hebrew: Gerar)]
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A.
Gezerot
Gezerot are rabbinic decrees in Judaism enacted as protective safeguards around biblical law or to address communal needs.
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B.
city of Gezer
The city of Gezer was an ancient Canaanite city strategically located in the Shephelah region of Israel, known from biblical and archaeological records for its fortifications and significance in regional trade and warfare.
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C.
גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם
גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם is the Hebrew name for the Hinnom Valley, a ravine south of Jerusalem historically associated with idolatrous practices and later symbolic of judgment or hell in Jewish and Christian tradition.
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D.
Eglah
Eglah is a lesser-known wife of the biblical King David, mentioned among the mothers of his sons in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Haran
Haran is an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia known from the Hebrew Bible as a key dwelling place of the patriarch Abraham before his journey to Canaan.
- 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: גְּרָר (Hebrew: Gerar) Target entity description: גְּרָר (Gerar) is an ancient Philistine city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, associated with the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac in the Book of Genesis.
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A.
Gezerot
Gezerot are rabbinic decrees in Judaism enacted as protective safeguards around biblical law or to address communal needs.
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B.
city of Gezer
The city of Gezer was an ancient Canaanite city strategically located in the Shephelah region of Israel, known from biblical and archaeological records for its fortifications and significance in regional trade and warfare.
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C.
גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם
גֵּיא בֶן־הִנֹּם is the Hebrew name for the Hinnom Valley, a ravine south of Jerusalem historically associated with idolatrous practices and later symbolic of judgment or hell in Jewish and Christian tradition.
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D.
Eglah
Eglah is a lesser-known wife of the biblical King David, mentioned among the mothers of his sons in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Haran
Haran is an ancient city in northern Mesopotamia known from the Hebrew Bible as a key dwelling place of the patriarch Abraham before his journey to Canaan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Philistine city
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ancient city ⓘ biblical city ⓘ place in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Masoretic Text
ⓘ
Septuagint ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
Genesis 20
ⓘ
Genesis 21 ⓘ Genesis 26 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abraham
ⓘ
Isaac ⓘ |
| describedAs | Philistine territory in Genesis ⓘ |
| hasRulerInGenesisNarrative | Abimelech ⓘ |
| hasUncertainArchaeologicalIdentification | true ⓘ |
| label |
Gerar
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גְּרָר ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedInTextualTradition |
Land of the Philistines
ⓘ
linked to:
Philistia
Negev region ⓘ
linked to:
נגב
|
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| narrativeEvent |
Abraham prays for Abimelech in Gerar
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Abraham presents Sarah as his sister in Gerar ⓘ Abraham sojourns in Gerar ⓘ Covenant between Isaac and Abimelech near Gerar ⓘ God warns Abimelech in a dream concerning Sarah in Gerar ⓘ Isaac presents Rebekah as his sister in Gerar ⓘ Isaac prospers and becomes wealthy in Gerar ⓘ Isaac sojourns in Gerar during famine ⓘ Quarrels over wells between Isaac’s herdsmen and herdsmen of Gerar ⓘ |
| possibleArchaeologicalSite |
Tel Abu Hureira (proposed)
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Tel Haror ⓘ |
| regionInModernTerms |
northwestern Negev
ⓘ
southern Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Southern District, Israel
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| relatedPlace |
Beer-sheba
ⓘ
Kadesh ⓘ Shur ⓘ |
| religiousTextRole | setting of patriarchal narratives ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
place of covenant-making
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place of divine-human interaction ⓘ place of moral testing for patriarchs ⓘ |
| timePeriod | patriarchal period (biblical chronology) ⓘ |
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: גְּרָר (Hebrew: Gerar) Description of subject: גְּרָר (Gerar) is an ancient Philistine city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, associated with the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac in the Book of Genesis.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.