Jashub
E332538
Jashub is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the descendants of Jacob through the tribe of Issachar.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3142298 — 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: Jashub Context triple: [Issachar, son, Jashub]
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A.
Shobab
Shobab is a lesser-known son of King David of Israel and Bathsheba, mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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D.
Jachin
Jachin is one of the two bronze pillars that stood at the entrance of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, symbolizing stability and divine establishment.
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E.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
- 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: Jashub Target entity description: Jashub is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the descendants of Jacob through the tribe of Issachar.
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A.
Shobab
Shobab is a lesser-known son of King David of Israel and Bathsheba, mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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D.
Jachin
Jachin is one of the two bronze pillars that stood at the entrance of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, symbolizing stability and divine establishment.
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E.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearsInBook |
Book of Chronicles
ⓘ
linked to:
Books of Chronicles
Book of Numbers ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
1 Chronicles 7
ⓘ
Numbers 26 ⓘ |
| appearsInContext | tribal genealogy of Israel ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
house of Issachar
ⓘ
linked to:
Tribe of Issachar
|
| belongsToGroup |
Israelites
ⓘ
children of Issachar ⓘ
linked to:
Tribe of Issachar
|
| describedAs |
descendant of Issachar
ⓘ
descendant of Jacob ⓘ |
| hasAncestor |
Israel
ⓘ
Jacob ⓘ |
| hasFather | Issachar ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Iashub
ⓘ
linked to:
Jashub
Job ⓘ |
| hasTribe | Tribe of Issachar ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| scriptureRole | genealogical figure ⓘ |
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: Jashub Description of subject: Jashub is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the descendants of Jacob through the tribe of Issachar.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.