Azarias
E507681
Azarias is the Hebrew name traditionally associated with Abednego, one of the three youths in the biblical Book of Daniel who survived the fiery furnace.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Azarias canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5268791 — 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: Azarias Context triple: [Abednego, alsoKnownAs, Azarias]
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A.
Zerah
Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Judah and Tamar.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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D.
Shadrack
Shadrack is a traumatized World War I veteran in Toni Morrison’s novel *Sula* who founds the ritual of National Suicide Day and embodies the community’s fears and marginalization.
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E.
Akiva
Akiva is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "protect" or "shelter," and is notably borne by figures such as the ancient Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva and screenwriter-producer Akiva Goldsman.
- 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: Azarias Target entity description: Azarias is the Hebrew name traditionally associated with Abednego, one of the three youths in the biblical Book of Daniel who survived the fiery furnace.
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A.
Zerah
Zerah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Judah and Tamar.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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D.
Shadrack
Shadrack is a traumatized World War I veteran in Toni Morrison’s novel *Sula* who founds the ritual of National Suicide Day and embodies the community’s fears and marginalization.
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E.
Akiva
Akiva is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "protect" or "shelter," and is notably borne by figures such as the ancient Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva and screenwriter-producer Akiva Goldsman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Book of Daniel ⓘ |
| hasCompanion |
Meshach
ⓘ
Shadrach ⓘ |
| hasHebrewName | עֲזַרְיָה ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling | Azariah ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Babylonian exile
ⓘ
King Nebuchadnezzar II ⓘ
linked to:
Nebuchadnezzar II
|
| isAssociatedWithEvent | deliverance from the fiery furnace ⓘ |
| isKnownFrom |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Old Testament
|
| isMentionedIn |
Daniel chapter 3 (tradition)
ⓘ
linked to:
Book of Daniel
|
| isOneOf | three youths in the fiery furnace ⓘ |
| isRememberedFor |
faithfulness to God
ⓘ
refusal to worship the golden image ⓘ |
| isServantOf |
God of Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
the LORD
|
| isSubjectOf | story of the fiery furnace ⓘ |
| isTraditionallyIdentifiedWith | Abednego ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | Yahweh has helped ⓘ |
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: Azarias Description of subject: Azarias is the Hebrew name traditionally associated with Abednego, one of the three youths in the biblical Book of Daniel who survived the fiery furnace.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.