Jabbok
E611246
Jabbok is an ancient name, mentioned in the Bible, for the Zarqa River that flows through modern-day Jordan.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jabbok River | 5 |
| Jabbok canonical | 2 |
| ford of the Jabbok | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6699902 — 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: Jabbok Context triple: [Zarqa River, alsoKnownAs, Jabbok]
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A.
Samaria stream
Samaria stream is a mountain river running through the Samaria Gorge on the island of Crete, shaping its dramatic landscape and supporting its unique ecosystem.
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B.
Pishon
Pishon is one of the four rivers mentioned in the biblical Book of Genesis as flowing from the Garden of Eden.
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C.
Banias River
The Banias River is a major spring-fed stream in the Golan Heights that forms one of the principal headwaters of the Jordan River.
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D.
Ezion-geber
Ezion-geber was an ancient Red Sea port city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, serving as a key maritime hub for trade and shipping in the region of Edom.
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E.
Kishon River
The Kishon River is a major watercourse in northern Israel that flows from the Jezreel Valley to the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa.
- 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: Jabbok Target entity description: Jabbok is an ancient name, mentioned in the Bible, for the Zarqa River that flows through modern-day Jordan.
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A.
Samaria stream
Samaria stream is a mountain river running through the Samaria Gorge on the island of Crete, shaping its dramatic landscape and supporting its unique ecosystem.
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B.
Pishon
Pishon is one of the four rivers mentioned in the biblical Book of Genesis as flowing from the Garden of Eden.
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C.
Banias River
The Banias River is a major spring-fed stream in the Golan Heights that forms one of the principal headwaters of the Jordan River.
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D.
Ezion-geber
Ezion-geber was an ancient Red Sea port city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, serving as a key maritime hub for trade and shipping in the region of Edom.
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E.
Kishon River
The Kishon River is a major watercourse in northern Israel that flows from the Jezreel Valley to the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblicalPlace
ⓘ
river ⓘ |
| ancientNameFor | Zarqa River ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure | Jacob ⓘ |
| flowsInto | Jordan River ⓘ |
| flowsThrough | northwestern Jordan ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration | Yabbok ⓘ |
| hasApproximateLength | about 105 kilometers ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasModernName | Zarqa River ⓘ |
| hasMouthIn | Jordan Valley ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| hasSourceIn | Jordan ⓘ |
| historicallyBordered |
Ammon
ⓘ
Gilead ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Levant
ⓘ
linked to:
Levant region
|
| locatedInCountry | Jordan ⓘ |
| locatedInRegion | Transjordan ⓘ |
| locatedOnContinent | Asia ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| mentionedInBook |
Book of Deuteronomy
ⓘ
Book of Genesis ⓘ Book of Numbers ⓘ |
| separates | Ammonite territory from Gilead ⓘ |
| siteOfEvent | Jacob wrestling with the angel ⓘ |
| tributaryOf | Jordan River ⓘ |
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: Jabbok Description of subject: Jabbok is an ancient name, mentioned in the Bible, for the Zarqa River that flows through modern-day Jordan.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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