Shelah
E437640
Shelah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons in the family line of Judah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shelah canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4405684 — 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: Shelah Context triple: [Judah son of Jacob, child, Shelah]
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A.
Yakir
Yakir is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Israel and among Jewish communities.
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B.
Shimon Even
Shimon Even was an influential Israeli computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to graph algorithms and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Resh Galuta
Resh Galuta, also known as the Exilarch, was the hereditary leader of the Jewish community in Babylonia, traditionally regarded as a political and sometimes spiritual head descended from the royal line of King David.
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D.
Bergelson
Bergelson is a Jewish surname most notably associated with Dovid Bergelson, a prominent Yiddish writer of the early 20th century.
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E.
Ephraim Katzir
Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and politician who served as the fourth President of Israel and was renowned for his pioneering work in the field of protein chemistry.
- 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: Shelah Target entity description: Shelah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons in the family line of Judah.
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A.
Yakir
Yakir is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, commonly used in Israel and among Jewish communities.
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B.
Shimon Even
Shimon Even was an influential Israeli computer scientist known for his foundational contributions to graph algorithms and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Resh Galuta
Resh Galuta, also known as the Exilarch, was the hereditary leader of the Jewish community in Babylonia, traditionally regarded as a political and sometimes spiritual head descended from the royal line of King David.
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D.
Bergelson
Bergelson is a Jewish surname most notably associated with Dovid Bergelson, a prominent Yiddish writer of the early 20th century.
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E.
Ephraim Katzir
Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and politician who served as the fourth President of Israel and was renowned for his pioneering work in the field of protein chemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| ancestorOf | Shelanites ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
1 Chronicles 4
ⓘ
Genesis 38 ⓘ Genesis 46 ⓘ |
| belongsToLineage |
line of Judah
ⓘ
linked to:
Tribe of Judah
|
| eponymOf | clan of Shelah ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Israelite ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather | Jacob ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Book of Genesis person
ⓘ
Tribe of Judah person ⓘ |
| hasFather |
Judah
ⓘ
linked to:
Yehuda
|
| hasGrandson | Shelah ⓘ |
| hasMother | Shua's daughter ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Er
ⓘ
Onan ⓘ Shelah ⓘ |
| hasSon | Shelah ⓘ |
| inTribe | Tribe of Judah ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| listedAmong | descendants of Jacob who went to Egypt ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| nameForm | שֵׁלָה ⓘ |
| nameTransliteration | Shelah ⓘ |
| religiousTextContext |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Old Testament
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
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: Shelah Description of subject: Shelah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons in the family line of Judah.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Shelah
subject linked to:
Shelah
subject linked to:
interceded for Benjamin before Joseph in Egypt