Hazor
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Hazor was an important ancient Canaanite city-state in northern Israel, known as one of the largest and most influential urban centers in the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hazor canonical | 7 |
| Tel Hazor | 3 |
| Lower City of Hazor | 1 |
| Upper City of Hazor | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T617628 — 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: Hazor Context triple: [Canaan, majorCity, Hazor]
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A.
Hatra
Hatra is an ancient fortified city in northern Iraq, renowned for its well-preserved blend of Hellenistic and Parthian architecture and its role as a major religious and trading center in the early centuries CE.
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B.
Ugarit
Ugarit was an important ancient port city-state on the Syrian coast, known for its influential Canaanite culture and the discovery of one of the earliest alphabetic writing systems.
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C.
Motya
Motya was an important ancient Phoenician island city and trading hub located off the western coast of Sicily.
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D.
Arwad
Arwad is an ancient Phoenician island city-state off the coast of modern-day Syria, historically known as a significant maritime and trading center in the eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
Megiddo
Megiddo was an important ancient Canaanite city strategically located along key trade and military routes in the Levant, known for its archaeological significance and association with biblical Armageddon.
- 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: Hazor Target entity description: Hazor was an important ancient Canaanite city-state in northern Israel, known as one of the largest and most influential urban centers in the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
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A.
Hatra
Hatra is an ancient fortified city in northern Iraq, renowned for its well-preserved blend of Hellenistic and Parthian architecture and its role as a major religious and trading center in the early centuries CE.
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B.
Ugarit
Ugarit was an important ancient port city-state on the Syrian coast, known for its influential Canaanite culture and the discovery of one of the earliest alphabetic writing systems.
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C.
Motya
Motya was an important ancient Phoenician island city and trading hub located off the western coast of Sicily.
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D.
Arwad
Arwad is an ancient Phoenician island city-state off the coast of modern-day Syria, historically known as a significant maritime and trading center in the eastern Mediterranean.
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E.
Megiddo
Megiddo was an important ancient Canaanite city strategically located along key trade and military routes in the Levant, known for its archaeological significance and association with biblical Armageddon.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canaanite city-state
ⓘ
UNESCO World Heritage Site ⓘ ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ |
| area | approximately 200 hectares at its maximum extent ⓘ |
| biblicalDescription | head of all those kingdoms (Joshua 11:10) ⓘ |
| country | Israel ⓘ |
| culture |
Canaanites
ⓘ
surface form:
Canaanite
Israelite ⓘ |
| destroyedBy | fire in the 13th century BCE ⓘ |
| destroyedIn | Late Bronze Age destruction layer ⓘ |
| elevation | approximately 210 meters above sea level ⓘ |
| excavatedBy |
Amnon Ben-Tor
ⓘ
Yigael Yadin ⓘ |
| excavationResumed | 1990 ⓘ |
| excavationStart | 1955 ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Canaanite temple complexes
ⓘ
casemate wall fortifications ⓘ large water shaft and tunnel system ⓘ royal palace with basalt orthostats ⓘ six-chambered gate from Iron Age ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Hazor
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Lower City of Hazor
Hazor self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Tel Hazor
Hazor self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Upper City of Hazor
|
| knownFor |
being one of the largest Bronze Age cities in the Levant
ⓘ
cuneiform tablet archive fragments ⓘ massive fortifications ⓘ monumental Canaanite palace ⓘ water system ⓘ |
| languageEvidence | Akkadian cuneiform tablets ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Levant region
ⓘ
surface form:
Levant
Galilee ⓘ
surface form:
Upper Galilee
northern Israel ⓘ |
| managedBy | Israel Nature and Parks Authority ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
1 Kings
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of 1 Kings
Book of Joshua ⓘ Judges ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| near |
Hula Valley
ⓘ
modern town of Rosh Pinna ⓘ |
| partOf |
Megiddo
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Tels – Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba
|
| period |
Iron Age I
ⓘ
Iron Age II ⓘ Late Bronze Age ⓘ Middle Bronze Age ⓘ |
| reoccupiedIn | Iron Age I ⓘ |
| tradeConnections |
Egypt
ⓘ
Mesopotamia ⓘ Syria ⓘ |
| UNESCOSiteId | 1108 ⓘ |
| UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince | 2005 ⓘ |
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: Hazor Description of subject: Hazor was an important ancient Canaanite city-state in northern Israel, known as one of the largest and most influential urban centers in the Levant during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tel Hazor
subject surface form:
Tribe of Naftali
this entity surface form:
Tel Hazor