Shammua (son of David)
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Shammua was one of King David’s sons, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible among the children born to him in Jerusalem.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shammua (son of David) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7687745 — 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: Shammua (son of David) Context triple: [Shobab, sibling, Shammua (son of David)]
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A.
Malchi-shua son of Saul
Malchi-shua son of Saul was one of King Saul’s sons and a prince of ancient Israel who died alongside his father in battle against the Philistines.
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B.
Shaul
Shaul is the Hebrew form of the name Saul, most famously associated with the first king of ancient Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Ish-bosheth
Ish-bosheth is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled part of Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
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D.
Zimri
Zimri was a short-reigning king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, known from the Hebrew Bible for seizing the throne through a coup and then dying in a palace fire.
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E.
Cushan-Rishathaim
Cushan-Rishathaim is a foreign king mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges as an oppressor of Israel whom God delivered into the hands of the judge Othniel.
- 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: Shammua (son of David) Target entity description: Shammua was one of King David’s sons, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible among the children born to him in Jerusalem.
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A.
Malchi-shua son of Saul
Malchi-shua son of Saul was one of King Saul’s sons and a prince of ancient Israel who died alongside his father in battle against the Philistines.
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B.
Shaul
Shaul is the Hebrew form of the name Saul, most famously associated with the first king of ancient Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Ish-bosheth
Ish-bosheth is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled part of Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
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D.
Zimri
Zimri was a short-reigning king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, known from the Hebrew Bible for seizing the throne through a coup and then dying in a palace fire.
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E.
Cushan-Rishathaim
Cushan-Rishathaim is a foreign king mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges as an oppressor of Israel whom God delivered into the hands of the judge Othniel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bathsheba
ⓘ
King David ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus |
recognized in Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
recognized in Jewish canon ⓘ |
| culture |
ancient Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Israel
|
| dynasty | House of David ⓘ |
| era | Iron Age Levant ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Israelite ⓘ |
| father | David ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Shammua ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
1 Chronicles 14:4
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1 Chronicles 3:5 ⓘ 2 Samuel 5:14 ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| mother | Bathsheba ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | possibly “heard” or “he has heard” in Hebrew ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Shammua ben David
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linked to:
Shammua
Shimea ⓘ |
| positionInBirthOrder | firstborn son of David in Jerusalem ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| sibling |
Nathan (son of David)
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Shobab ⓘ Solomon ⓘ |
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: Shammua (son of David) Description of subject: Shammua was one of King David’s sons, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible among the children born to him in Jerusalem.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.