Azariah (disguised name in Book of Tobit)
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Azariah is the human alias used by the archangel Raphael when he appears incognito to guide Tobit and his son Tobias in the biblical Book of Tobit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Azariah (disguised name in Book of Tobit) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5260312 — 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: Azariah (disguised name in Book of Tobit) Context triple: [Raphael (archangel), alias, Azariah (disguised name in Book of Tobit)]
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A.
Tobiah the Ammonite
Tobiah the Ammonite is a biblical figure known as one of the chief opponents of Nehemiah’s efforts to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls after the Babylonian exile.
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B.
Anna (wife of Tobit)
Anna is a biblical figure from the Book of Tobit, known as Tobit's faithful wife and the mother of Tobias in the Deuterocanonical scriptures.
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C.
Tobit
Tobit is a deuterocanonical Jewish wisdom and adventure narrative, preserved in the Septuagint, that tells the story of a righteous Israelite and his son Tobias guided by the angel Raphael.
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D.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Shadrach
Shadrach is one of the three Hebrew youths in the biblical Book of Daniel who, along with Meshach and Abednego, is miraculously preserved by God in the fiery furnace after refusing to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image.
- 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: Azariah (disguised name in Book of Tobit) Target entity description: Azariah is the human alias used by the archangel Raphael when he appears incognito to guide Tobit and his son Tobias in the biblical Book of Tobit.
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A.
Tobiah the Ammonite
Tobiah the Ammonite is a biblical figure known as one of the chief opponents of Nehemiah’s efforts to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls after the Babylonian exile.
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B.
Anna (wife of Tobit)
Anna is a biblical figure from the Book of Tobit, known as Tobit's faithful wife and the mother of Tobias in the Deuterocanonical scriptures.
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C.
Tobit
Tobit is a deuterocanonical Jewish wisdom and adventure narrative, preserved in the Septuagint, that tells the story of a righteous Israelite and his son Tobias guided by the angel Raphael.
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D.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Shadrach
Shadrach is one of the three Hebrew youths in the biblical Book of Daniel who, along with Meshach and Abednego, is miraculously preserved by God in the fiery furnace after refusing to worship King Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
alias
ⓘ
disguise ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of Tobit
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catholic biblical canon ⓘ Deuterocanonical books NERFINISHED ⓘ Orthodox biblical canon ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
angelic protection
ⓘ
divine guidance ⓘ healing ⓘ providence ⓘ |
| claimsToBe | Azariah son of the great Hananiah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concealsIdentityAs | human traveler ⓘ |
| guides |
Tobias
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tobit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownBy |
Tobias
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tobit NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | Yahweh has helped ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
to accompany Tobias on his journey
ⓘ
to arrange Tobias’s marriage to Sarah ⓘ to instruct Tobias in using the fish to heal ⓘ to reveal God’s intervention at the end of the story ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism (Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal literature) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revealedAsAngelInChapter | Tobit 12 ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
companion
ⓘ
guide ⓘ protector ⓘ |
| sourceTextTradition |
Septuagint
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vulgate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trueIdentity | Raphael (archangel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedAsExampleOf |
angelic incognito
ⓘ
divine messenger in human form ⓘ |
| usedBy | Raphael (archangel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Azariah (disguised name in Book of Tobit) Description of subject: Azariah is the human alias used by the archangel Raphael when he appears incognito to guide Tobit and his son Tobias in the biblical Book of Tobit.
Referenced by (1)
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