Karaite Jews
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Karaite Jews are a Jewish religious and ethnic community that recognizes only the Hebrew Bible as authoritative scripture, rejecting the Oral Torah and rabbinic tradition.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Karaite Judaism | 22 |
| Karaite Jews canonical | 10 |
| Karaite | 3 |
| Karaite Jewish community | 3 |
| Crimean Karaites | 1 |
| Egyptian Karaites | 1 |
| Karaim | 1 |
| Karaism | 1 |
| Karaite community in Israel | 1 |
| Karaite movement | 1 |
| Karaites | 1 |
| Lithuanian Karaites | 1 |
| Polish Karaites | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T30426 — 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.
Target entity: Karaite Jews Context triple: [Jews, hasEthnicSubdivision, Karaite Jews]
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A.
Mizrahi Jews
Mizrahi Jews are a Jewish ethnic group originating from Middle Eastern and North African countries, with distinct religious traditions, languages, and cultural practices shaped by centuries of life in the Islamic world.
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B.
Jews
Jews are an ethnoreligious group originating from the ancient Israelites and Hebrews, historically associated with Judaism and a shared cultural, religious, and national identity.
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C.
Sephardi Jews
Sephardi Jews are a Jewish ethnic group originating from the Iberian Peninsula, whose descendants spread throughout the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East, developing distinctive religious traditions, liturgy, and cultural practices.
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D.
Ethiopian Jews
Ethiopian Jews are a Jewish ethnic community originating from Ethiopia, known for their distinct religious traditions, history of isolation from other Jewish communities, and large-scale immigration to Israel in the late 20th century.
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E.
Druze
The Druze are a small, monotheistic religious and ethnonational community originating in the Levant, known for their esoteric beliefs, strong communal cohesion, and significant presence in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Karaite Jews Target entity description: Karaite Jews are a Jewish religious and ethnic community that recognizes only the Hebrew Bible as authoritative scripture, rejecting the Oral Torah and rabbinic tradition.
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A.
Mizrahi Jews
Mizrahi Jews are a Jewish ethnic group originating from Middle Eastern and North African countries, with distinct religious traditions, languages, and cultural practices shaped by centuries of life in the Islamic world.
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B.
Jews
Jews are an ethnoreligious group originating from the ancient Israelites and Hebrews, historically associated with Judaism and a shared cultural, religious, and national identity.
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C.
Sephardi Jews
Sephardi Jews are a Jewish ethnic group originating from the Iberian Peninsula, whose descendants spread throughout the Mediterranean, North Africa, and the Middle East, developing distinctive religious traditions, liturgy, and cultural practices.
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D.
Ethiopian Jews
Ethiopian Jews are a Jewish ethnic community originating from Ethiopia, known for their distinct religious traditions, history of isolation from other Jewish communities, and large-scale immigration to Israel in the late 20th century.
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E.
Druze
The Druze are a small, monotheistic religious and ethnonational community originating in the Levant, known for their esoteric beliefs, strong communal cohesion, and significant presence in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish ethnic group
ⓘ
Jewish religious movement ⓘ |
| coreBelief |
individual responsibility to study scripture
ⓘ
rejection of binding rabbinic halakha ⓘ supremacy of written Torah ⓘ |
| differsFrom | Rabbinic Judaism ⓘ |
| doesNotObserve | post-biblical rabbinic festivals as religiously binding ⓘ |
| emergedInCentury | 8th century ⓘ |
| emergedInRegion |
Iraq
ⓘ
Palestine ⓘ
surface form:
Land of Israel
|
| ethnicSubgroup |
Karaite Jews
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Crimean Karaites
Karaite Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Egyptian Karaites
Karaite Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Lithuanian Karaites
Karaite Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Polish Karaites
|
| followsCalendar | biblical lunar-solar calendar ⓘ |
| hasSynagogueType | Karaite synagogue ⓘ |
| majorCommunityIn |
Crimea
ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ Israel ⓘ Lithuania ⓘ Poland ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| observesHoliday |
Passover
ⓘ
Rosh Hashanah ⓘ Shavuot ⓘ Sukkot ⓘ Yom Kippur ⓘ biblical festivals only ⓘ |
| originatedIn | Middle East ⓘ |
| prayerLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| recognizesAsAuthoritativeScripture |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| rejects |
Mishnah
ⓘ
Mishnah ⓘ
surface form:
Oral Torah
Rabbinic tradition ⓘ Talmud ⓘ |
| religion |
Karaite Jews
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Karaite Judaism
|
| religiousCenter |
Ashdod
ⓘ
Ramla ⓘ |
| religiousLawBasedOn |
independent interpretation of Tanakh
ⓘ
peshat (plain meaning) of scripture ⓘ |
| scripture |
Ketuvim
ⓘ
Neviim ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ Torah ⓘ |
| selfIdentification | Bnei Mikra ⓘ |
| usesLanguage |
Arabic
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ Karaite Jews self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Karaim
Russian ⓘ Turkish ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Karaite Jews Description of subject: Karaite Jews are a Jewish religious and ethnic community that recognizes only the Hebrew Bible as authoritative scripture, rejecting the Oral Torah and rabbinic tradition.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.