Simon the Cananaean
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Simon the Cananaean is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, traditionally identified with Simon the Zealot.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon the Cananaean canonical | 4 |
| Simon the Canaanite | 2 |
| Simon the Cananite | 1 |
| Simon the Zealous | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1177014 — 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: Simon the Cananaean Context triple: [Simon the Zealot, hasAlias, Simon the Cananaean]
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A.
Ephron the Hittite
Ephron the Hittite is a biblical figure known for selling the cave of Machpelah in Hebron to Abraham as a family burial site.
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B.
Shimon
Shimon is a given name most notably borne by Shimon Peres, the former President and Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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C.
Simeon
Simeon is a biblical figure, one of the twelve sons of Jacob and a progenitor of one of the tribes of Israel.
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D.
Isaac of Nineveh
Isaac of Nineveh was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop and mystic renowned for his influential writings on asceticism, prayer, and divine mercy.
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E.
Nimrod
Nimrod is a 1997 studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, best known for its blend of punk energy with more experimental and melodic tracks.
- 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: Simon the Cananaean Target entity description: Simon the Cananaean is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, traditionally identified with Simon the Zealot.
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A.
Ephron the Hittite
Ephron the Hittite is a biblical figure known for selling the cave of Machpelah in Hebron to Abraham as a family burial site.
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B.
Shimon
Shimon is a given name most notably borne by Shimon Peres, the former President and Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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C.
Simeon
Simeon is a biblical figure, one of the twelve sons of Jacob and a progenitor of one of the tribes of Israel.
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D.
Isaac of Nineveh
Isaac of Nineveh was a 7th-century Syriac Christian bishop and mystic renowned for his influential writings on asceticism, prayer, and divine mercy.
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E.
Nimrod
Nimrod is a 1997 studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, best known for its blend of punk energy with more experimental and melodic tracks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Simon the Cananaean Description of subject: Simon the Cananaean is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, traditionally identified with Simon the Zealot.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Apostle Simon the Zealot
subject linked to:
Apostle Simon the Zealot
linked to: Simon the Cananaean
linked to: Simon the Cananaean
linked to: Simon the Cananaean
linked to: Simon the Cananaean