Mesha
E472407
Mesha was a king of Moab in the 9th century BCE, best known from the Mesha Stele inscription that records his rebellion against the Kingdom of Israel.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| King Mesha of Moab | 7 |
| Mesha king of Moab | 2 |
| Mesha, king of Moab | 2 |
| Mesha canonical | 1 |
| Mesha of Moab | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4814900 — 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: Mesha Context triple: [Moabites, notableKing, Mesha]
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A.
Meroz
Meroz is a place or clan mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges, remembered for being cursed for failing to aid Israel in battle.
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B.
Moresheth
Moresheth is an ancient town in the Judean lowlands, traditionally identified as the hometown of the biblical prophet Micah.
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C.
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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D.
Shealtiel
Shealtiel is a biblical figure known primarily as a descendant of King Jehoiachin and an ancestor of Zerubbabel in the Davidic royal line.
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E.
Beth-togarmah
Beth-togarmah is a biblical region or people traditionally linked to Anatolia/Armenia and mentioned among the nations associated with Gog in prophetic texts.
- 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: Mesha Target entity description: Mesha was a king of Moab in the 9th century BCE, best known from the Mesha Stele inscription that records his rebellion against the Kingdom of Israel.
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A.
Meroz
Meroz is a place or clan mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges, remembered for being cursed for failing to aid Israel in battle.
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B.
Moresheth
Moresheth is an ancient town in the Judean lowlands, traditionally identified as the hometown of the biblical prophet Micah.
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C.
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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D.
Shealtiel
Shealtiel is a biblical figure known primarily as a descendant of King Jehoiachin and an ancestor of Zerubbabel in the Davidic royal line.
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E.
Beth-togarmah
Beth-togarmah is a biblical region or people traditionally linked to Anatolia/Armenia and mentioned among the nations associated with Gog in prophetic texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
king ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Iron Age Levant
ⓘ
Omride dynasty of Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Omride dynasty
|
| capital | Dibon ⓘ |
| chronologicalRelation |
roughly contemporary with Ahab of Israel
ⓘ
roughly contemporary with Omri of Israel ⓘ |
| conflict |
Moabite rebellion against Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
War with Moab
|
| conflictResult | temporary independence of Moab from Israel ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Moab ⓘ |
| culture | Moabite culture ⓘ |
| dedicatedToDeity | Chemosh ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| engagedIn | building projects in Moab ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Moabites ⓘ |
| governmentForm | monarchy ⓘ |
| hasEvidenceType |
biblical textual evidence
ⓘ
inscriptional evidence ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
King of Moab
ⓘ
linked to:
king of Moab
|
| hasWork |
Mesha Stele inscription
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesha Stele
|
| historicalStatus | ancient Near Eastern ruler ⓘ |
| inscriptionLanguage | Moabite ⓘ |
| inscriptionLocation |
Dhiban (ancient Dibon)
ⓘ
linked to:
Dibon
|
| inscriptionMedium | basalt stele ⓘ |
| inscriptionScript | Phoenician alphabet ⓘ |
| knownFor | rebellion against the Kingdom of Israel ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Moabite language ⓘ |
| locatedInThePresentDayTerritoryOf | Jordan ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | 2 Kings 3 ⓘ |
| militaryAchievement |
capture of Israelite towns east of the Jordan
ⓘ
liberation of Moab from Israelite control ⓘ |
| notableFor | Mesha Stele ⓘ |
| opponent |
Kingdom of Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)
|
| patronDeity | Chemosh ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
King of Moab
ⓘ
linked to:
king of Moab
|
| region | Transjordan ⓘ |
| religion | Moabite religion ⓘ |
| sourceOfInformation |
Biblical narrative in 2 Kings 3
ⓘ
Mesha Stele ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
biblical scholarship
ⓘ
epigraphic studies ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 9th century BCE ⓘ |
| wrote |
Mesha Stele inscription
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesha Stele
|
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: Mesha Description of subject: Mesha was a king of Moab in the 9th century BCE, best known from the Mesha Stele inscription that records his rebellion against the Kingdom of Israel.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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