Thebez
E481022
Thebez was an ancient Canaanite town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, notable as the site where Abimelech was fatally injured when a woman dropped a millstone on his head from a tower.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4935603 — 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: Thebez Context triple: [Abimelech, besieged, Thebez]
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A.
Terbegec
Terbegec is a village that was part of the Kingdom of Hungary at the time of Ernő Gerő’s birth and is now located in modern-day Slovakia.
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B.
Tozzer
Tozzer is a surname most notably associated with Alfred Marston Tozzer, an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization.
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C.
Zardoz
Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction film directed by John Boorman, known for its surreal, dystopian vision and starring Sean Connery in one of his most unconventional roles.
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D.
Jebe
Jebe was one of Genghis Khan’s most brilliant generals, renowned for his daring cavalry campaigns and key role in the early Mongol conquests across Central Asia and into Eastern Europe.
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E.
Byzacena
Byzacena was a Roman province in North Africa, centered in what is now central and eastern Tunisia, known for its agricultural productivity and important cities such as Hadrumetum.
- 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: Thebez Target entity description: Thebez was an ancient Canaanite town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, notable as the site where Abimelech was fatally injured when a woman dropped a millstone on his head from a tower.
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A.
Terbegec
Terbegec is a village that was part of the Kingdom of Hungary at the time of Ernő Gerő’s birth and is now located in modern-day Slovakia.
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B.
Tozzer
Tozzer is a surname most notably associated with Alfred Marston Tozzer, an American anthropologist and archaeologist known for his pioneering work on Mayan civilization.
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C.
Zardoz
Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction film directed by John Boorman, known for its surreal, dystopian vision and starring Sean Connery in one of his most unconventional roles.
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D.
Jebe
Jebe was one of Genghis Khan’s most brilliant generals, renowned for his daring cavalry campaigns and key role in the early Mongol conquests across Central Asia and into Eastern Europe.
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E.
Byzacena
Byzacena was a Roman province in North Africa, centered in what is now central and eastern Tunisia, known for its agricultural productivity and important cities such as Hadrumetum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canaanite settlement
ⓘ
ancient town ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abimelech
ⓘ
Gideon’s son Abimelech ⓘ
linked to:
Abimelech
|
| biblicalReference | Judges 9:50-55 ⓘ |
| culture |
Canaanite
ⓘ
linked to:
Canaanites
|
| eventDescription |
Abimelech attacked the city and approached a tower to burn it
ⓘ
a woman dropped an upper millstone on Abimelech’s head ⓘ |
| eventOutcome |
Abimelech’s army withdrew after his death
ⓘ
fatal injury of Abimelech ⓘ |
| hasEvent | siege by Abimelech ⓘ |
| hasGenderedAgentInStory | unnamed woman ⓘ |
| hasStructure | strong tower ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn | ancient Canaan ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| nameInHebrewScript |
תֵּבֵץ
ⓘ
linked to:
Thebez
|
| narrativeTheme | downfall of a tyrant ⓘ |
| notableFor | death of Abimelech ⓘ |
| possibleIdentification | modern Tubas (hypothesized by some scholars) ⓘ |
| region |
southern Levant
ⓘ
linked to:
Levant region
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | example of divine retribution in Judges 9 ⓘ |
| scripturalCategory |
Old Testament location
ⓘ
Tanakh location ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age Levant ⓘ |
| uncertainModernLocation | true ⓘ |
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: Thebez Description of subject: Thebez was an ancient Canaanite town mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, notable as the site where Abimelech was fatally injured when a woman dropped a millstone on his head from a tower.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.