Shallum
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Shallum is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the husband of the prophetess Huldah during the reign of King Josiah of Judah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shallum canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4768251 — 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: Shallum Context triple: [Huldah, marriedTo, Shallum]
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A.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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B.
Jehozadak
Jehozadak is a biblical priestly figure known primarily as the father of Joshua the high priest who returned with the Jewish exiles from Babylon.
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C.
Yehoyaqim
Yehoyaqim is a king of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known for his reign during the late 7th to early 6th century BCE amid rising Babylonian power.
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D.
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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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: Shallum Target entity description: Shallum is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the husband of the prophetess Huldah during the reign of King Josiah of Judah.
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A.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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B.
Jehozadak
Jehozadak is a biblical priestly figure known primarily as the father of Joshua the high priest who returned with the Jewish exiles from Babylon.
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C.
Yehoyaqim
Yehoyaqim is a king of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known for his reign during the late 7th to early 6th century BCE amid rising Babylonian power.
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D.
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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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 (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
King Josiah
ⓘ
linked to:
Josiah
Kingdom of Judah ⓘ |
| biblicalBookCategory |
Former Prophets
ⓘ
linked to:
Prophets
Historical Books ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | canonical biblical character ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Israelite
ⓘ
linked to:
Israelites
|
| father |
Tikvah
ⓘ
Tikvath ⓘ
linked to:
Tikvah
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather |
Harhas
ⓘ
Hasrah ⓘ |
| hasRole | husband of the prophetess Huldah ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
2 Chronicles 34
ⓘ
2 Kings 22 ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| nameForm | שַׁלּוּם ⓘ |
| nameTransliteration | Shallum ⓘ |
| nameVariant | Shallum son of Tikvah ⓘ |
| occupation | keeper of the wardrobe ⓘ |
| region | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | minor biblical character ⓘ |
| spouse | Huldah ⓘ |
| spouseActivity | consulted for divine guidance by King Josiah’s officials ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | prophetess ⓘ |
| timePeriod | reign of King Josiah of Judah ⓘ |
| tribalAffiliation |
Judah (probable)
ⓘ
linked to:
Judah son of Jacob
|
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: Shallum Description of subject: Shallum is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the husband of the prophetess Huldah during the reign of King Josiah of Judah.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.