Woman taken in adultery
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Woman taken in adultery is a famous New Testament story in the Gospel of John in which Jesus confronts a crowd ready to stone an accused adulterous woman, highlighting mercy and the challenge, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Woman caught in adultery | 1 |
| Woman taken in adultery canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5089895 — 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: Woman taken in adultery Context triple: [Pericope adulterae, hasAlternativeName, Woman taken in adultery]
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A.
Adultery (short story)
"Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
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B.
Adultery
Adultery is a 2014 novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores themes of love, infidelity, and existential dissatisfaction through the story of a seemingly successful woman confronting a midlife crisis.
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C.
NS-Frauenschaft
NS-Frauenschaft was the women's organization of the Nazi Party in Germany, responsible for mobilizing and indoctrinating women in support of National Socialist ideology and policies.
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D.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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E.
The Unsuspecting Wife
"The Unsuspecting Wife" is a 1945 mystery novel by American author Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, known for its tense psychological suspense and domestic crime plot.
- 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: Woman taken in adultery Target entity description: Woman taken in adultery is a famous New Testament story in the Gospel of John in which Jesus confronts a crowd ready to stone an accused adulterous woman, highlighting mercy and the challenge, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
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A.
Adultery (short story)
"Adultery" is a short story by Andre Dubus that explores the emotional complexities and moral ambiguities of marital infidelity.
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B.
Adultery
Adultery is a 2014 novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that explores themes of love, infidelity, and existential dissatisfaction through the story of a seemingly successful woman confronting a midlife crisis.
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C.
NS-Frauenschaft
NS-Frauenschaft was the women's organization of the Nazi Party in Germany, responsible for mobilizing and indoctrinating women in support of National Socialist ideology and policies.
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D.
The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife is a late 17th-century Restoration comedy play by John Vanbrugh, known for its sharp wit and exploration of marriage and female agency.
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E.
The Unsuspecting Wife
"The Unsuspecting Wife" is a 1945 mystery novel by American author Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, known for its tense psychological suspense and domestic crime plot.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jesus narrative
ⓘ
New Testament narrative ⓘ biblical story ⓘ pericope ⓘ |
| actionByAccusers |
attempt to trap Jesus
ⓘ
bring woman before Jesus ⓘ cite law of Moses ⓘ |
| actionByJesus |
challenges the accusers
ⓘ
writes on the ground ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Pericope adulterae
ⓘ
linked to:
Pericope adulterae (John 7:53–8:11)
Story of the adulterous woman ⓘ
linked to:
Pericope adulterae (John 7:53–8:11)
|
| appearsIn | Gospel of John ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | John 8 ⓘ |
| appearsInVerses | John 7:53–8:11 ⓘ |
| depictedIn |
Christian art
ⓘ
Christian preaching and homilies ⓘ |
| famousLine |
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her
ⓘ
Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more ⓘ |
| genre | didactic narrative ⓘ |
| hasCentralFigure |
Jesus
ⓘ
linked to:
Jesus Christ
adulterous woman ⓘ |
| hasOtherFigure |
Pharisees
ⓘ
accusers ⓘ crowd ⓘ scribes ⓘ |
| influenced |
Christian teachings on forgiveness
ⓘ
Christian views on judgment and sin ⓘ |
| legalContext | adultery under Mosaic Law ⓘ |
| moralEmphasis |
divine mercy over strict legalism
ⓘ
self-examination before judging others ⓘ |
| punishmentProposed | stoning ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| result |
Jesus exhorts woman to sin no more
ⓘ
accusers leave one by one ⓘ woman is not stoned ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Jerusalem
ⓘ
temple courts ⓘ |
| textualStatus |
absent from earliest Greek manuscripts of John
ⓘ
often marked as later addition in modern Bibles ⓘ textually disputed passage ⓘ |
| theme |
authority of Jesus
ⓘ
compassion of Jesus ⓘ forgiveness ⓘ hypocrisy ⓘ judgment ⓘ law of Moses ⓘ
linked to:
Mosaic Law
mercy ⓘ sin ⓘ testing Jesus ⓘ |
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: Woman taken in adultery Description of subject: Woman taken in adultery is a famous New Testament story in the Gospel of John in which Jesus confronts a crowd ready to stone an accused adulterous woman, highlighting mercy and the challenge, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.”
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Pericope adulterae (John 7:53–8:11)
subject linked to:
Pericope adulterae (John 7:53–8:11)
linked to: Woman taken in adultery