Shunem
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Shunem was an ancient town in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, noted in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the Shunammite woman who hosted the prophet Elisha.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shunem canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4768212 — 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: Shunem Context triple: [Elisha, associatedPlace, Shunem]
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A.
Heshbon
Heshbon is an ancient city in the Transjordan region frequently mentioned in the Bible as a significant Moabite and later Israelite center.
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B.
Kedesh
Kedesh was an ancient city in the territory of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali, known as a Levitical city of refuge in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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D.
Rabbath Ammon
Rabbath Ammon was the ancient capital of the Ammonite kingdom, located on the site of modern-day Amman in present-day Jordan.
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E.
Erechim
Erechim is a city in southern Brazil known for its strong German-Brazilian cultural heritage and influence.
- 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: Shunem Target entity description: Shunem was an ancient town in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, noted in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the Shunammite woman who hosted the prophet Elisha.
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A.
Heshbon
Heshbon is an ancient city in the Transjordan region frequently mentioned in the Bible as a significant Moabite and later Israelite center.
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B.
Kedesh
Kedesh was an ancient city in the territory of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali, known as a Levitical city of refuge in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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D.
Rabbath Ammon
Rabbath Ammon was the ancient capital of the Ammonite kingdom, located on the site of modern-day Amman in present-day Jordan.
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E.
Erechim
Erechim is a city in southern Brazil known for its strong German-Brazilian cultural heritage and influence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient town
ⓘ
biblical location ⓘ |
| alternativeName | Sunem ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Elisha’s hospitality by the Shunammite woman
ⓘ
Philistine encampment before battle of Gilboa ⓘ Saul’s fear at Philistine army at Shunem ⓘ miraculous birth of the Shunammite’s son ⓘ raising of the Shunammite’s son by Elisha ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
King Saul
ⓘ
Shunammite woman ⓘ prophet Elisha ⓘ
linked to:
Elisha
prophet Elisha’s host ⓘ |
| country |
ancient Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Israel
|
| describedAs | town of Issachar ⓘ |
| historicalRegion |
ancient Near East
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Near East
|
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Jezreel Valley
ⓘ
Land of Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Eretz HaKodesh
Lower Galilee ⓘ
linked to:
Galilee
|
| mentionedIn |
Book of 1 Samuel
ⓘ
linked to:
1 Samuel
Book of 2 Kings ⓘ Book of Joshua ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| neighboringLocation |
Endor
ⓘ
Jezreel ⓘ
linked to:
Jezreel Valley
Mount Gilboa ⓘ Sunem ⓘ |
| notedFor |
Elisha’s miracles
ⓘ
hospitality of the Shunammite woman ⓘ |
| possibleModernSite |
Sulam
ⓘ
linked to:
Sulem
Sulem ⓘ |
| region |
Northern Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern District, Israel
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalRole |
setting of Elisha narratives
ⓘ
site of Philistine military camp ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age Levant ⓘ |
| tribalTerritory |
Issachar
ⓘ
linked to:
Tribe of Issachar
|
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: Shunem Description of subject: Shunem was an ancient town in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, noted in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the Shunammite woman who hosted the prophet Elisha.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.