Og king of Bashan
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Og, king of Bashan, is a biblical Amorite ruler remembered as one of the last of the Rephaim giants and a formidable opponent of the Israelites in the Transjordan region.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Og king of Bashan canonical | 3 |
| King Og of Bashan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3718973 — 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: Og king of Bashan Context triple: [Transjordanian territories of Israel, conqueredFrom, Og king of Bashan]
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A.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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B.
King Omri
King Omri was a 9th-century BCE ruler of the northern Kingdom of Israel known for establishing a powerful dynasty and strengthening the kingdom’s political and economic position.
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C.
Shamgar
Shamgar is a minor biblical judge and warrior mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for defeating a large number of Philistines with an oxgoad.
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D.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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E.
Qahtan
Qahtan is a prominent and historically significant Arab tribal confederation traditionally associated with southern and central Arabia.
- 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: Og king of Bashan Target entity description: Og, king of Bashan, is a biblical Amorite ruler remembered as one of the last of the Rephaim giants and a formidable opponent of the Israelites in the Transjordan region.
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A.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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B.
King Omri
King Omri was a 9th-century BCE ruler of the northern Kingdom of Israel known for establishing a powerful dynasty and strengthening the kingdom’s political and economic position.
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C.
Zimri-Lim
Zimri-Lim was an early 18th-century BCE Amorite king of Mari in Mesopotamia, known from extensive palace archives that illuminate the politics and society of his time.
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D.
Shamgar
Shamgar is a minor biblical judge and warrior mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for defeating a large number of Philistines with an oxgoad.
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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 (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: Og king of Bashan Description of subject: Og, king of Bashan, is a biblical Amorite ruler remembered as one of the last of the Rephaim giants and a formidable opponent of the Israelites in the Transjordan region.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Og of Bashan