Maccabees
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The Maccabees are the varsity athletic teams representing Yeshiva University in intercollegiate sports.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8856839 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maccabees Context triple: [Yeshiva University, athleticsTeamName, Maccabees]
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Maccabees
The Maccabees were a Jewish rebel group in the 2nd century BCE who led a successful revolt against Seleucid rule and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
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Judas Maccabeus
Judas Maccabeus was a 2nd-century BCE Jewish priest and military leader who led the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule and became a symbol of Jewish resistance and religious freedom.
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C.
Books of the Maccabees
The Books of the Maccabees are ancient Jewish historical and religious texts recounting the Maccabean revolt and events surrounding the rededication of the Second Temple.
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D.
1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees is a historical Jewish work recounting the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule in the 2nd century BCE, regarded as deuterocanonical by some Christian traditions.
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E.
4 Maccabees
4 Maccabees is a Hellenistic Jewish philosophical work that uses the story of the Maccabean martyrs to argue for the supremacy of reason guided by Torah over the passions.
- 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: Maccabees Target entity description: The Maccabees are the varsity athletic teams representing Yeshiva University in intercollegiate sports.
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A.
Maccabees
The Maccabees were a Jewish rebel group in the 2nd century BCE who led a successful revolt against Seleucid rule and rededicated the Temple in Jerusalem.
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B.
Judas Maccabeus
Judas Maccabeus was a 2nd-century BCE Jewish priest and military leader who led the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule and became a symbol of Jewish resistance and religious freedom.
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C.
Books of the Maccabees
The Books of the Maccabees are ancient Jewish historical and religious texts recounting the Maccabean revolt and events surrounding the rededication of the Second Temple.
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D.
1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees is a historical Jewish work recounting the Maccabean revolt against Seleucid rule in the 2nd century BCE, regarded as deuterocanonical by some Christian traditions.
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E.
4 Maccabees
4 Maccabees is a Hellenistic Jewish philosophical work that uses the story of the Maccabean martyrs to argue for the supremacy of reason guided by Torah over the passions.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Instruction
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Subject: Maccabees Description of subject: The Maccabees are the varsity athletic teams representing Yeshiva University in intercollegiate sports.
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