Zechariah son of Jehoiada
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Zechariah son of Jehoiada was a priest and prophet in the Hebrew Bible who was stoned to death in the Temple court for denouncing the people’s unfaithfulness to God.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zechariah | 2 |
| Beth Zechariah | 1 |
| Zechariah son of Jehoiada canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13562089 — 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: Zechariah son of Jehoiada Context triple: [Tomb of Zechariah, traditionallyAssociatedWith, Zechariah son of Jehoiada]
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A.
Zechariah
Zechariah is a biblical priest and the father of John the Baptist, featured prominently in the Gospel infancy narratives for his prophetic role and encounter with the angel Gabriel.
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B.
prophet Zechariah
Prophet Zechariah was a Hebrew biblical prophet of the early Second Temple period, known for his apocalyptic visions and for encouraging the rebuilding and spiritual renewal of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.
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C.
יְהוֹצָדָק
יְהוֹצָדָק (Jehozadak) is a biblical priest from the line of Aaron, known as the father of Jeshua the high priest who returned from the Babylonian exile.
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D.
Zacharias
Zacharias is a surname most notably associated with Jerrold R. Zacharias, an American physicist known for his contributions to atomic clocks and science education.
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E.
Mattaniah
Mattaniah is the birth name of the last king of Judah, later renamed Zedekiah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
- 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: Zechariah son of Jehoiada Target entity description: Zechariah son of Jehoiada was a priest and prophet in the Hebrew Bible who was stoned to death in the Temple court for denouncing the people’s unfaithfulness to God.
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A.
Zechariah
Zechariah is a biblical priest and the father of John the Baptist, featured prominently in the Gospel infancy narratives for his prophetic role and encounter with the angel Gabriel.
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B.
prophet Zechariah
Prophet Zechariah was a Hebrew biblical prophet of the early Second Temple period, known for his apocalyptic visions and for encouraging the rebuilding and spiritual renewal of Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.
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C.
יְהוֹצָדָק
יְהוֹצָדָק (Jehozadak) is a biblical priest from the line of Aaron, known as the father of Jeshua the high priest who returned from the Babylonian exile.
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D.
Zacharias
Zacharias is a surname most notably associated with Jerrold R. Zacharias, an American physicist known for his contributions to atomic clocks and science education.
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E.
Mattaniah
Mattaniah is the birth name of the last king of Judah, later renamed Zedekiah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
priest ⓘ prophet ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
King Joash of Judah
ⓘ
linked to:
Jehoash of Judah
Temple in Jerusalem ⓘ |
| condemned | abandonment of the Lord ⓘ |
| deathCause | stoning ⓘ |
| deathManner | martyrdom ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Temple court in Jerusalem
ⓘ
linked to:
Temple courts in Jerusalem
|
| denounced |
people of Judah
ⓘ
linked to:
People of Judah and Jerusalem
unfaithfulness to God ⓘ |
| father | Jehoiada ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| language | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
2 Chronicles
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| moralStance | faithfulness to covenant ⓘ |
| opposed | idolatry ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| rememberedAs | righteous man ⓘ |
| role | spokesman for God ⓘ |
| scripturalRole | example of prophetic suffering ⓘ |
| scripturalTheme |
conflict between prophet and king
ⓘ
judgment for unfaithfulness ⓘ |
| spokeIn | Temple court ⓘ |
| timePeriod | monarchy of Judah ⓘ |
| tradition | Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| victimOf | persecution for prophetic message ⓘ |
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: Zechariah son of Jehoiada Description of subject: Zechariah son of Jehoiada was a priest and prophet in the Hebrew Bible who was stoned to death in the Temple court for denouncing the people’s unfaithfulness to God.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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