Zipporah
E81543
Zipporah is the Midianite wife of Moses in the Hebrew Bible, known for accompanying him to Egypt and intervening to save his life in a mysterious incident involving their son’s circumcision.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zipporah canonical | 10 |
| Tzipporah | 2 |
| Moses’ marriage to Zipporah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T648732 — 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: Zipporah Context triple: [Moses, associatedWithPeople, Zipporah]
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A.
Zilpah
Zilpah is a biblical figure who served as Leah’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Gad and Asher.
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B.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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C.
Miriam
Miriam is a prominent biblical figure known as the sister of Moses and Aaron and as a prophetess during the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
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D.
Bilhah
Bilhah is a biblical figure who served as Rachel’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Dan and Naphtali.
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E.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
- 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: Zipporah Target entity description: Zipporah is the Midianite wife of Moses in the Hebrew Bible, known for accompanying him to Egypt and intervening to save his life in a mysterious incident involving their son’s circumcision.
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A.
Zilpah
Zilpah is a biblical figure who served as Leah’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Gad and Asher.
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B.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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C.
Miriam
Miriam is a prominent biblical figure known as the sister of Moses and Aaron and as a prophetess during the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
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D.
Bilhah
Bilhah is a biblical figure who served as Rachel’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Dan and Naphtali.
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E.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Midianite
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Book of Exodus ⓘ |
| associatedPeople |
Jethro
ⓘ
Moses ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Egypt
ⓘ
Midian ⓘ wilderness ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | mysterious incident at the lodging place on the way to Egypt ⓘ |
| child |
Eleazar
ⓘ
surface form:
Eliezer
Gershom ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Midian
ⓘ
surface form:
Midianite
|
| father |
Jethro
ⓘ
Reuel ⓘ |
| husbandRole |
leader of the Israelites
ⓘ
prophet ⓘ |
| knownFor |
accompanying Moses on his journey to Egypt
ⓘ
intervening to save Moses’ life at a lodging place on the way to Egypt ⓘ performing an emergency circumcision of her son ⓘ |
| marriageContext | Moses’ stay in Midian ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | bird ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Zipporah
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Tzipporah
|
| performedRitual | circumcision of her son ⓘ |
| quote | Surely a bridegroom of blood art thou to me ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | figure in narratives about covenant and circumcision ⓘ |
| religiousText |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative |
mother of Moses’ sons born in Midian
ⓘ
wife who temporarily returns to her father’s house in Midian ⓘ |
| scripturalReference |
Exodus 18:2
ⓘ
Exodus 2:16–22 ⓘ Exodus 4:24–26 ⓘ |
| sibling | seven daughters of Jethro ⓘ |
| spouse | Moses ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Moses ⓘ |
| textualStatus | Old Testament character ⓘ |
| tradition |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Islamic tradition ⓘ Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
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: Zipporah Description of subject: Zipporah is the Midianite wife of Moses in the Hebrew Bible, known for accompanying him to Egypt and intervening to save his life in a mysterious incident involving their son’s circumcision.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Tzipporah
this entity surface form:
Tzipporah
this entity surface form:
Moses’ marriage to Zipporah