Hebrew letter Aleph
E622066
The Hebrew letter Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a glottal stop and often symbolizing the oneness of God in Jewish mysticism and theology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hebrew letter Aleph canonical | 1 |
| ʾālef | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827687 — 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: Hebrew letter Aleph Context triple: [El Aleph, hasTitleOrigin, Hebrew letter Aleph]
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A.
HEBREW LETTER AYIN
HEBREW LETTER AYIN is a consonant in the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a voiced pharyngeal fricative and used in both liturgical and modern Hebrew writing.
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B.
Phoenician letter Waw
The Phoenician letter Waw is an ancient Semitic consonant sign that historically represented a /w/ sound and served as the ancestor of several later letters, including Greek Upsilon and Latin F, V, and U.
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C.
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin is an early consonantal sign in the Proto-Sinaitic script that represents a voiced pharyngeal or glottal sound and is the ancestor of the Semitic letter ʿayin found in later alphabets such as Phoenician and Hebrew.
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D.
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet is an ancient consonant-based writing system used primarily for Hebrew and several other Jewish languages, including Judeo-Arabic and Yiddish.
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E.
Zayin
Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally associated with the "z" sound and rich symbolic meanings in Jewish mysticism and scripture.
- 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: Hebrew letter Aleph Target entity description: The Hebrew letter Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a glottal stop and often symbolizing the oneness of God in Jewish mysticism and theology.
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A.
HEBREW LETTER AYIN
HEBREW LETTER AYIN is a consonant in the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a voiced pharyngeal fricative and used in both liturgical and modern Hebrew writing.
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B.
Phoenician letter Waw
The Phoenician letter Waw is an ancient Semitic consonant sign that historically represented a /w/ sound and served as the ancestor of several later letters, including Greek Upsilon and Latin F, V, and U.
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C.
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin
Proto-Sinaitic letter ʿayin is an early consonantal sign in the Proto-Sinaitic script that represents a voiced pharyngeal or glottal sound and is the ancestor of the Semitic letter ʿayin found in later alphabets such as Phoenician and Hebrew.
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D.
Hebrew alphabet
The Hebrew alphabet is an ancient consonant-based writing system used primarily for Hebrew and several other Jewish languages, including Judeo-Arabic and Yiddish.
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E.
Zayin
Zayin is the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally associated with the "z" sound and rich symbolic meanings in Jewish mysticism and scripture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew letter
ⓘ
consonant ⓘ |
| abjadNumericValue | 1 ⓘ |
| alphabet | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
Torah ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sefirot in Kabbalistic interpretations ⓘ |
| block | Hebrew (Unicode) ⓘ |
| category | guttural consonant in Hebrew grammar ⓘ |
| gematriaSystem |
Mispar gadol
ⓘ
standard Hebrew gematria ⓘ |
| gematriaValue | 1 ⓘ |
| graphemicClass | base consonant letter ⓘ |
| hasCaseDistinction | no ⓘ |
| hasFinalForm | no ⓘ |
| ISO15919Transliteration |
ʾālef
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew letter Aleph
|
| letterFamily | אחה"ע guttural group ⓘ |
| linguisticFunction |
can carry vowel points (niqqud)
ⓘ
can mark hiatus between vowels ⓘ |
| nameInHebrew |
אָלֶף
ⓘ
linked to:
Aleph
|
| origin | derived from Proto-Sinaitic script ⓘ |
| originMeaning | ox ⓘ |
| positionCategory | non-final-only letter ⓘ |
| positionInAlphabet | 1 ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Arabic letter Alif
ⓘ
Greek letter Alpha ⓘ Latin letter A ⓘ Phoenician letter Aleph ⓘ |
| roleInLiturgy | present in many key liturgical words and names ⓘ |
| roleInOrthography |
can indicate presence of a vowel
ⓘ
can serve as a mater lectionis in some traditions ⓘ |
| script | Hebrew script ⓘ |
| soundValue |
glottal stop
ⓘ
silent consonant in many modern Hebrew contexts ⓘ |
| symbolismInJudaism | oneness of God ⓘ |
| symbolismInKabbalah |
mediator between higher and lower worlds
ⓘ
unity of the divine ⓘ |
| transliteration |
Alef
ⓘ
Aleph ⓘ |
| type | consonantal letter ⓘ |
| UnicodeCodePoint | U+05D0 ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Hebrew speakers
ⓘ
Jewish communities worldwide ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
Mishnaic Hebrew ⓘ Modern Hebrew ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
Yiddish orthography ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
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: Hebrew letter Aleph Description of subject: The Hebrew letter Aleph is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, traditionally representing a glottal stop and often symbolizing the oneness of God in Jewish mysticism and theology.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hebrew letter Aleph
linked to: Hebrew letter Aleph