Gennesaret
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Gennesaret is a fertile plain and lakeside area on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, noted in the New Testament as a setting for several of Jesus’ healings and teachings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gennesaret canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9409074 — 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: Gennesaret Context triple: [Jesus’ Galilean ministry, hasRegion, Gennesaret]
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A.
Tabgha
Tabgha is a lakeside area on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, traditionally revered as the site of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes.
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B.
Capernaum
Capernaum was an ancient fishing village on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee that became a central setting for Jesus’ ministry in the New Testament.
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C.
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was an ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of several of Jesus’s apostles in the New Testament.
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D.
Caesarea Philippi
Caesarea Philippi was an ancient Hellenistic and Roman city in the northern Levant, near the source of the Jordan River at the base of Mount Hermon, noted for its pagan sanctuaries and later Christian significance.
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E.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
- 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: Gennesaret Target entity description: Gennesaret is a fertile plain and lakeside area on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, noted in the New Testament as a setting for several of Jesus’ healings and teachings.
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A.
Tabgha
Tabgha is a lakeside area on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, traditionally revered as the site of the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes.
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B.
Capernaum
Capernaum was an ancient fishing village on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee that became a central setting for Jesus’ ministry in the New Testament.
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C.
Bethsaida
Bethsaida was an ancient fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, traditionally known as the hometown of several of Jesus’s apostles in the New Testament.
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D.
Caesarea Philippi
Caesarea Philippi was an ancient Hellenistic and Roman city in the northern Levant, near the source of the Jordan River at the base of Mount Hermon, noted for its pagan sanctuaries and later Christian significance.
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E.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
geographical region
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lakeside area ⓘ plain ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Mark 6:53–56
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Matthew 14:34–36 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jesus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biblicalEvent |
Jesus heals the sick who are brought to him
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crowds touch the fringe of Jesus’ garment and are healed ⓘ |
| borderedBy | Sea of Galilee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | exceedingly fertile region in ancient sources ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Land of Gennesaret
NERFINISHED
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Plain of Gennesaret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
fertile plain
ⓘ
lakeside terrain ⓘ |
| knownFor |
healings by Jesus
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miracles of Jesus ⓘ teachings of Jesus ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Greek ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Galilee
NERFINISHED
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ancient Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ modern-day Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Gospel of Luke
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Gospel of Mark ⓘ Gospel of Matthew ⓘ New Testament ⓘ |
| near |
Capernaum
NERFINISHED
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Magdala NERFINISHED ⓘ Plain of Bethsaida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Lake Gennesaret NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | site of Jesus’ ministry activities ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Christianity ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Second Temple period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Gennesaret Description of subject: Gennesaret is a fertile plain and lakeside area on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee, noted in the New Testament as a setting for several of Jesus’ healings and teachings.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.