Ephraim son of Joseph
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Ephraim son of Joseph is a biblical figure, the younger son of Joseph and Asenath, who became ancestor of the powerful Israelite tribe of Ephraim.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ephraim son of Joseph canonical | 5 |
| Ephraim (biblical figure) | 1 |
| Joseph's sons Ephraim and Manasseh | 1 |
| sons of Joseph | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6500991 — 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: Ephraim son of Joseph Context triple: [Ephraim, namedAfter, Ephraim son of Joseph]
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A.
Joseph son of Jacob
Joseph son of Jacob is a central biblical figure known for his prophetic dreams, being sold into slavery by his brothers, and rising to become a powerful leader in Egypt who ultimately saves his family from famine.
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B.
Levi son of Jacob
Levi son of Jacob is a biblical patriarch regarded as the ancestor of the Levites, the Israelite tribe traditionally associated with religious and priestly duties.
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C.
Judah son of Jacob
Judah son of Jacob is a prominent biblical patriarch, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and the ancestral figure from whom the Tribe of Judah and the royal Davidic line are traditionally believed to descend.
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D.
Levite of Ephraim
The Levite of Ephraim is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges whose tragic journey with his concubine leads to a brutal crime and a subsequent civil war in Israel.
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E.
Benjamin son of Jacob
Benjamin son of Jacob is the youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the eponymous ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin.
- 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: Ephraim son of Joseph Target entity description: Ephraim son of Joseph is a biblical figure, the younger son of Joseph and Asenath, who became ancestor of the powerful Israelite tribe of Ephraim.
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A.
Joseph son of Jacob
Joseph son of Jacob is a central biblical figure known for his prophetic dreams, being sold into slavery by his brothers, and rising to become a powerful leader in Egypt who ultimately saves his family from famine.
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B.
Levi son of Jacob
Levi son of Jacob is a biblical patriarch regarded as the ancestor of the Levites, the Israelite tribe traditionally associated with religious and priestly duties.
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C.
Judah son of Jacob
Judah son of Jacob is a prominent biblical patriarch, one of the twelve sons of Jacob, and the ancestral figure from whom the Tribe of Judah and the royal Davidic line are traditionally believed to descend.
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D.
Levite of Ephraim
The Levite of Ephraim is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges whose tragic journey with his concubine leads to a brutal crime and a subsequent civil war in Israel.
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E.
Benjamin son of Jacob
Benjamin son of Jacob is the youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible and the eponymous ancestor of the Israelite Tribe of Benjamin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Ephraim son of Joseph Description of subject: Ephraim son of Joseph is a biblical figure, the younger son of Joseph and Asenath, who became ancestor of the powerful Israelite tribe of Ephraim.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
patriarch Jacob
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