Milcom
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Milcom is the chief god of the ancient Ammonites, often associated with kingship and venerated in the region east of the Jordan River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Milcom canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7327595 — 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: Milcom Context triple: [Kingdom of Ammon, mainDeity, Milcom]
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A.
Mirzam
Mirzam is a bright blue-white giant star in the constellation Canis Major, known as one of the prominent stars near Sirius in the winter sky.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Baldeo
Baldeo is a town in India’s Braj region, known for its religious significance and association with Krishna-related traditions.
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D.
Machaon
Machaon is a figure from Greek mythology, renowned as a skilled healer and son of the legendary physician Asclepius.
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E.
Milchan
Milchan is the surname of Arnon Milchan, an influential Israeli film producer and businessman known for backing numerous major Hollywood films.
- 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: Milcom Target entity description: Milcom is the chief god of the ancient Ammonites, often associated with kingship and venerated in the region east of the Jordan River.
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A.
Mirzam
Mirzam is a bright blue-white giant star in the constellation Canis Major, known as one of the prominent stars near Sirius in the winter sky.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Baldeo
Baldeo is a town in India’s Braj region, known for its religious significance and association with Krishna-related traditions.
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D.
Machaon
Machaon is a figure from Greek mythology, renowned as a skilled healer and son of the legendary physician Asclepius.
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E.
Milchan
Milchan is the surname of Arnon Milchan, an influential Israeli film producer and businessman known for backing numerous major Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ammonite deity
ⓘ
deity ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ammonite monarchy
ⓘ
linked to:
Ammonite Kingdom
Jerusalem (as a foreign cult in biblical texts) ⓘ kingship ⓘ royal ideology ⓘ |
| attestedIn | epigraphic evidence from Ammon ⓘ |
| category | West Semitic god ⓘ |
| culture | Ammonites ⓘ |
| describedAs | chief god of the Ammonites ⓘ |
| geographicContext | ancient Levant ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Malkam
ⓘ
Molech (sometimes identified or conflated) ⓘ
linked to:
Moloch
|
| hasIconography | depictions on Ammonite seals and inscriptions (probable) ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
1 Kings 11:33
ⓘ
1 Kings 11:5 ⓘ 2 Kings 23:13 ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| nameLanguage | Northwest Semitic ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | their king ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Yahwistic religion in biblical texts ⓘ |
| region | Transjordan ⓘ |
| religion | Ammonite religion ⓘ |
| scholarlyDiscussion | often discussed in relation to Molech and other regional deities ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age Levant ⓘ |
| worshipCentre | Rabbah of the Ammonites ⓘ |
| worshippedBy | Ammonites ⓘ |
| worshippedInRegion | east of the Jordan River ⓘ |
| worshipStatusInBible | condemned as idolatry ⓘ |
| worshipType | state cult ⓘ |
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: Milcom Description of subject: Milcom is the chief god of the ancient Ammonites, often associated with kingship and venerated in the region east of the Jordan River.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.