Jair
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Jair is a minor biblical judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for his leadership and his thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys and controlled thirty towns.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jair canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899333 — 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: Jair Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Jair]
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A.
Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Jontel Pimentel is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his genre-blending R&B music and hits like "Adorn."
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B.
Azevêdo
Azevêdo is a Portuguese-language surname commonly found in Brazil and Portugal, associated with several notable public figures.
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C.
Nicolás
Nicolás is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and derived from the name Nicholas, meaning "victory of the people."
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D.
Jair Marrufo
Jair Marrufo is an American soccer referee who has officiated at the highest levels of Major League Soccer and international competitions.
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E.
Marcelo
Marcelo is a common Portuguese and Spanish given name, notably borne by figures such as Brazilian footballer Marcelo Vieira and former Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano.
- 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: Jair Target entity description: Jair is a minor biblical judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for his leadership and his thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys and controlled thirty towns.
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A.
Miguel Jontel Pimentel
Miguel Jontel Pimentel is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for his genre-blending R&B music and hits like "Adorn."
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B.
Azevêdo
Azevêdo is a Portuguese-language surname commonly found in Brazil and Portugal, associated with several notable public figures.
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C.
Nicolás
Nicolás is a masculine given name of Greek origin, commonly used in Spanish-speaking countries and derived from the name Nicholas, meaning "victory of the people."
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D.
Jair Marrufo
Jair Marrufo is an American soccer referee who has officiated at the highest levels of Major League Soccer and international competitions.
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E.
Marcelo
Marcelo is a common Portuguese and Spanish given name, notably borne by figures such as Brazilian footballer Marcelo Vieira and former Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Biblical judge
ⓘ
Judge of Israel ⓘ Person ⓘ |
| biblicalBookChapterReference | Judges 10:3–5 ⓘ |
| countryGoverned | Israel ⓘ |
| era |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Period of the Judges
|
| ethnicGroup | Israelites ⓘ |
| gender | Male ⓘ |
| governedTerritory | Gilead ⓘ |
| hasChild | Thirty unnamed sons ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| lengthOfJudgeship | 22 years ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | He enlightens ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| notableFact |
Had thirty sons
ⓘ
His thirty sons controlled thirty towns ⓘ His thirty sons rode thirty donkeys ⓘ |
| numberOfDonkeysRiddenBySons | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfSons | 30 ⓘ |
| numberOfTownsControlledBySons | 30 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Judge of Israel ⓘ |
| predecessor | Tola ⓘ |
| regionAssociatedWith | Gilead ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| role | Judge of Israel ⓘ |
| successor | Jephthah ⓘ |
| vehicleAssociatedWith | Donkey ⓘ |
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: Jair Description of subject: Jair is a minor biblical judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for his leadership and his thirty sons who rode thirty donkeys and controlled thirty towns.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book of Judges