Peleg
E1011240
Peleg is a relatively uncommon given name and surname of Hebrew origin, appearing in biblical texts and used by various individuals in religious and historical contexts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Peleg canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12945034 — 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: Peleg Context triple: [Bildad, businessPartner, Peleg]
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A.
Peleg
Peleg is a retired whaling captain and part-owner of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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B.
Shem
Shem is a biblical figure regarded as one of Noah’s sons and traditionally considered an ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
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C.
Yaphit
Yaphit is a gelatinous, shape-shifting engineer serving aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction TV series "The Orville."
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D.
Enosh
Enosh is a biblical figure recognized as a grandson of Adam and an early patriarch in the Book of Genesis.
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E.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
- 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: Peleg Target entity description: Peleg is a relatively uncommon given name and surname of Hebrew origin, appearing in biblical texts and used by various individuals in religious and historical contexts.
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A.
Peleg
Peleg is a retired whaling captain and part-owner of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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B.
Shem
Shem is a biblical figure regarded as one of Noah’s sons and traditionally considered an ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
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C.
Yaphit
Yaphit is a gelatinous, shape-shifting engineer serving aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction TV series "The Orville."
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D.
Enosh
Enosh is a biblical figure recognized as a grandson of Adam and an early patriarch in the Book of Genesis.
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E.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew masculine given name
ⓘ
biblical name ⓘ given name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Old Testament
|
| associatedLanguageFamily | Afroasiatic languages ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| culturalOrigin | ancient Israelite culture ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | Hebrew verb palag ⓘ |
| frequencyOfUse | relatively uncommon ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasGivenNameUsage | yes ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
channel of water
ⓘ
division ⓘ |
| hasSurnameUsage | yes ⓘ |
| hasVariantForm |
Faleg
ⓘ
Phaleg ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| nameCategory | theophoric and biblical names ⓘ |
| onomaType | anthroponym ⓘ |
| script | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| transliteration | Peleg ⓘ |
| usageRegion |
Israel
ⓘ
Jewish communities ⓘ |
| usageType |
historical context
ⓘ
religious context ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Peleg Description of subject: Peleg is a relatively uncommon given name and surname of Hebrew origin, appearing in biblical texts and used by various individuals in religious and historical contexts.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.