Shimea
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Shimea is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of King David’s brothers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shimea canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5132203 — 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: Shimea Context triple: [Shephatiah, sibling, Shimea]
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A.
Nothotsuga
Nothotsuga is a small genus of coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae, closely related to hemlocks and native to parts of Asia.
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B.
Adlumia
Adlumia is a small genus of delicate climbing flowering plants native to North America and East Asia, commonly known for species like Adlumia fungosa, the climbing fumitory.
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C.
Abanilla
Abanilla is a municipality in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, known for its traditional agriculture and historic religious festivities.
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D.
Nobatia
Nobatia was an early medieval Nubian kingdom in Lower Nubia that emerged after the decline of Meroë and later became part of the Christian Nubian state of Makuria.
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E.
Calamis
Calamis was an ancient Greek sculptor renowned for his elegant and refined bronze works in the early Classical period.
- 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: Shimea Target entity description: Shimea is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of King David’s brothers.
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A.
Nothotsuga
Nothotsuga is a small genus of coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae, closely related to hemlocks and native to parts of Asia.
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B.
Adlumia
Adlumia is a small genus of delicate climbing flowering plants native to North America and East Asia, commonly known for species like Adlumia fungosa, the climbing fumitory.
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C.
Abanilla
Abanilla is a municipality in the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, known for its traditional agriculture and historic religious festivities.
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D.
Nobatia
Nobatia was an early medieval Nubian kingdom in Lower Nubia that emerged after the decline of Meroë and later became part of the Christian Nubian state of Makuria.
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E.
Calamis
Calamis was an ancient Greek sculptor renowned for his elegant and refined bronze works in the early Classical period.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Old Testament
|
| canonicalStatus | canonical biblical person ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Israelite ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
brother of David
ⓘ
son of Jesse ⓘ
linked to:
sons of Jesse
|
| father | Jesse ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
1 Chronicles 2
ⓘ
1 Chronicles 20 ⓘ 1 Samuel 16 ⓘ 1 Samuel 17 ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Shammah
ⓘ
Shimeah ⓘ Shimei ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the brothers of King David ⓘ |
| religiousTextTradition |
Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
Jewish Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Bethlehem ⓘ |
| scriptureRole | minor character in narratives about David ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Abinadab
ⓘ
David ⓘ Eliab ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
United Monarchy of Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)
|
| tribe | Tribe of Judah ⓘ |
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: Shimea Description of subject: Shimea is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of King David’s brothers.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.