Bozrah
E521043
Bozrah was an important ancient city that served as the principal stronghold and royal center of the kingdom of Edom, located south of the Dead Sea.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bozrah canonical | 4 |
| Bozrah (biblical city) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5446441 — 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: Bozrah Context triple: [Edom, capital, Bozrah]
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A.
Heshbon
Heshbon is an ancient city in the Transjordan region frequently mentioned in the Bible as a significant Moabite and later Israelite center.
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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.
Talfah
Talfah is an Iraqi family name most prominently associated with Sajida Talfah, the first wife of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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D.
Rabbath Ammon
Rabbath Ammon was the ancient capital of the Ammonite kingdom, located on the site of modern-day Amman in present-day Jordan.
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E.
Shunem
Shunem was an ancient town in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, noted in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the Shunammite woman who hosted the prophet Elisha.
- 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: Bozrah Target entity description: Bozrah was an important ancient city that served as the principal stronghold and royal center of the kingdom of Edom, located south of the Dead Sea.
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A.
Heshbon
Heshbon is an ancient city in the Transjordan region frequently mentioned in the Bible as a significant Moabite and later Israelite center.
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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.
Talfah
Talfah is an Iraqi family name most prominently associated with Sajida Talfah, the first wife of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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D.
Rabbath Ammon
Rabbath Ammon was the ancient capital of the Ammonite kingdom, located on the site of modern-day Amman in present-day Jordan.
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E.
Shunem
Shunem was an ancient town in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, noted in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the Shunammite woman who hosted the prophet Elisha.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient city
ⓘ
archaeological site ⓘ former populated place ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople |
Edomites
ⓘ
linked to:
Edom
|
| countryToday | Jordan ⓘ |
| culture | Edomite culture ⓘ |
| describedAs |
city of Edom
ⓘ
sheepfold or enclosure in prophetic imagery ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalAssociation |
judgment against Edom
ⓘ
restoration themes in prophetic literature ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| laterInfluence |
referenced in Christian biblical exegesis
ⓘ
referenced in Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edom
ⓘ
Transjordan region ⓘ
linked to:
Transjordan
southern Levant ⓘ
linked to:
Levant region
|
| locatedSouthOf | Dead Sea ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| mentionedInBook |
Book of Amos
ⓘ
Book of Isaiah ⓘ Book of Jeremiah ⓘ Book of Micah ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
enclosure
ⓘ
fortress ⓘ |
| nearbyFeature |
Arabah valley
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabah Valley
|
| partOf | Edomite kingdom urban network ⓘ |
| politicalRole | capital or chief city of Edom ⓘ |
| region | south of the Dead Sea ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | site of prophetic oracles of judgment in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| roleInEdom |
administrative center
ⓘ
military center ⓘ royal residence ⓘ |
| servedAs |
principal stronghold of Edom
ⓘ
royal center of Edom ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Iron Age
ⓘ
first millennium BCE ⓘ |
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: Bozrah Description of subject: Bozrah was an important ancient city that served as the principal stronghold and royal center of the kingdom of Edom, located south of the Dead Sea.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Bozrah