Eleazar ben Simon
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Eleazar ben Simon was a first-century Jewish Zealot leader who played a major role in the Great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleazar ben Simon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2398215 — 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: Eleazar ben Simon Context triple: [Zealots, hasNotableLeader, Eleazar ben Simon]
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A.
Eleazar ben Ya'ir
Eleazar ben Ya'ir was a 1st-century Jewish Zealot leader best known for commanding the Sicarii rebels at Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
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B.
Eleazar the priest
Eleazar the priest is a biblical high priest of Israel, son of Aaron, who helped lead and oversee the distribution of the Promised Land after Joshua’s conquests.
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C.
Eleazar
Eleazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally associated with religious and historical figures.
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D.
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon was a prominent 2nd-century Talmudic sage, the son and close scholarly partner of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, known for his legal acumen and contributions to rabbinic literature.
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E.
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai was a prominent second-century Tannaic sage, renowned for his extensive halakhic teachings and frequent citation throughout the Mishnah and Talmud.
- 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: Eleazar ben Simon Target entity description: Eleazar ben Simon was a first-century Jewish Zealot leader who played a major role in the Great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire.
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A.
Eleazar ben Ya'ir
Eleazar ben Ya'ir was a 1st-century Jewish Zealot leader best known for commanding the Sicarii rebels at Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
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B.
Eleazar the priest
Eleazar the priest is a biblical high priest of Israel, son of Aaron, who helped lead and oversee the distribution of the Promised Land after Joshua’s conquests.
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C.
Eleazar
Eleazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally associated with religious and historical figures.
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D.
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon was a prominent 2nd-century Talmudic sage, the son and close scholarly partner of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, known for his legal acumen and contributions to rabbinic literature.
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E.
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai was a prominent second-century Tannaic sage, renowned for his extensive halakhic teachings and frequent citation throughout the Mishnah and Talmud.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
1st-century Jew
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Jewish rebel leader ⓘ Zealot ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Jewish–Roman wars
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surface form:
Great Jewish Revolt
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| associatedWith |
Jerusalem
ⓘ
Zealots ⓘ
surface form:
Zealot movement
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| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| foughtAgainst | Roman forces in Judea ⓘ |
| foughtIn |
Jewish–Roman wars
ⓘ
surface form:
First Jewish–Roman War
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| historicalContext |
Second Temple Judaism
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surface form:
Second Temple period
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| ideology |
Jewish nationalism (ancient)
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anti-Roman resistance ⓘ |
| language |
Aramaic
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership role in the Great Jewish Revolt ⓘ |
| operatedIn | Judea ⓘ |
| opposed |
Roman Empire
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Roman rule in Judea ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| role | Zealot leader ⓘ |
| sourceMention |
Flavius Josephus
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surface form:
Josephus
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| timePeriod |
1st century CE
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66–70 CE ⓘ |
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: Eleazar ben Simon Description of subject: Eleazar ben Simon was a first-century Jewish Zealot leader who played a major role in the Great Jewish Revolt against the Roman Empire.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.