Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite
E343449
Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Esau’s wives, representing his intermarriage with the Hittite people.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3294707 — 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: Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite Context triple: [Esau, married, Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite]
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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.
Tamyen
Tamyen is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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C.
Naamah the Ammonite
Naamah the Ammonite is a biblical figure known as the Ammonite wife of King Solomon and the mother of King Rehoboam of Judah.
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D.
Hanan
Hanan is a given name most notably borne by Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar Hanan Ashrawi.
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E.
Shelomith
Shelomith is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a member of King Rehoboam’s family lineage.
- 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: Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite Target entity description: Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Esau’s wives, representing his intermarriage with the Hittite people.
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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.
Tamyen
Tamyen is an extinct Ohlone (Costanoan) Native American language once spoken in the Santa Clara Valley region of California.
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C.
Naamah the Ammonite
Naamah the Ammonite is a biblical figure known as the Ammonite wife of King Solomon and the mother of King Rehoboam of Judah.
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D.
Hanan
Hanan is a given name most notably borne by Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar Hanan Ashrawi.
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E.
Shelomith
Shelomith is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a member of King Rehoboam’s family lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Esau’s wife
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Hittites ⓘ |
| father | Elon the Hittite ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
|
| nameVariant |
Basemath
ⓘ
Basmath ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Canaanite religion ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | represents Esau’s intermarriage with Hittite people ⓘ |
| spouse | Esau ⓘ |
| timePeriod | patriarchal period (biblical) ⓘ |
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: Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite Description of subject: Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Esau’s wives, representing his intermarriage with the Hittite people.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.