Hagar
E51333
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hagar canonical | 30 |
| Hagar the Egyptian | 1 |
| Hajar (Hagar) | 1 |
| “Hagar, servant of Sarai” | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T405039 — 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: Hagar Context triple: [Abraham, spouse, Hagar]
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A.
Rebekah
Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
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B.
Hanan
Hanan is a given name most notably borne by Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar Hanan Ashrawi.
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C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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D.
Qena
Qena is a city in Upper Egypt on the east bank of the Nile, known as a regional administrative center and gateway to nearby ancient sites such as Dendera.
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E.
Tihamah
Tihamah is a low-lying coastal plain along the Red Sea in western Arabia, known historically as a hot, arid region encompassing parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
- 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: Hagar Target entity description: Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
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A.
Rebekah
Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
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B.
Hanan
Hanan is a given name most notably borne by Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar Hanan Ashrawi.
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C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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D.
Qena
Qena is a city in Upper Egypt on the east bank of the Nile, known as a regional administrative center and gateway to nearby ancient sites such as Dendera.
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E.
Tihamah
Tihamah is a low-lying coastal plain along the Red Sea in western Arabia, known historically as a hot, arid region encompassing parts of modern-day Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
concubine ⓘ female servant ⓘ matriarchal figure in Islam ⓘ person in the Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
Quran ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Beer-lahai-roi
ⓘ
wilderness of Beersheba ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abraham
ⓘ
Sarah ⓘ |
| causeOfConflict | tension with Sarah after conception ⓘ |
| describedAs | Egyptian ⓘ |
| encountered | angel of the Lord ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Egyptian ⓘ |
| expelledBy |
Abraham
ⓘ
Sarah ⓘ |
| experienced | flight into the wilderness ⓘ |
| gaveNameTo | El Roi ⓘ |
| givenBy | Sarah ⓘ |
| givenTo | Abraham ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first person in the Bible to name God
ⓘ
being the first woman in the Bible to receive a divine annunciation ⓘ |
| motherOf | Ishmael ⓘ |
| namedByGod |
Hagar
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
“Hagar, servant of Sarai”
|
| nameVariant |
Hajar
ⓘ
Hajar ⓘ
surface form:
Hājar
|
| narrativeEpisode |
Genesis 16
ⓘ
Genesis 21 ⓘ |
| receivedPromiseAbout | Ishmael ⓘ |
| receivedProphecy | Ishmael will become a great nation ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| role |
handmaid of Sarah
ⓘ
servant of Sarah ⓘ |
| spouseOrPartner | Abraham ⓘ |
| status |
concubine of Abraham
ⓘ
slave woman ⓘ |
| symbolIn | Paul’s allegory in Galatians ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
marginalized and oppressed women in later interpretation
ⓘ
slavery in Paul’s allegory ⓘ |
| theologicalTheme |
God’s attention to outsiders
ⓘ
divine care for the oppressed ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Islamic tradition ⓘ Jewish tradition ⓘ |
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: Hagar Description of subject: Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hajar (Hagar)
this entity surface form:
“Hagar, servant of Sarai”
this entity surface form:
Hagar the Egyptian