Elishama
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Elishama is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as one of King David’s sons.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Elishama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7687753 — 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: Elishama Context triple: [Shobab, sibling, Elishama]
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A.
Elishua
Elishua is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of King David’s sons.
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B.
Shelomith
Shelomith is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a member of King Rehoboam’s family lineage.
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C.
Shemariah
Shemariah is a biblical figure mentioned in genealogical records as a descendant within the line associated with Mahalath.
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D.
Zorah
Zorah was an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan, known from the Hebrew Bible as the hometown of Samson.
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E.
Shammua
Shammua is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as one of the sons of David.
- 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: Elishama Target entity description: Elishama is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as one of King David’s sons.
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A.
Elishua
Elishua is a biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of King David’s sons.
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B.
Shelomith
Shelomith is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a member of King Rehoboam’s family lineage.
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C.
Shemariah
Shemariah is a biblical figure mentioned in genealogical records as a descendant within the line associated with Mahalath.
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D.
Zorah
Zorah was an ancient town in the territory of the Tribe of Dan, known from the Hebrew Bible as the hometown of Samson.
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E.
Shammua
Shammua is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as one of the sons of David.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | canonical biblical character ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasFather |
David
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Eliphelet
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elishua NERFINISHED ⓘ Ibhar NERFINISHED ⓘ Japhia NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerimoth NERFINISHED ⓘ Nathan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nepheg NERFINISHED ⓘ Nogah NERFINISHED ⓘ Shammua NERFINISHED ⓘ Shobab NERFINISHED ⓘ Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle | son of David ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| livedInPeriod | time of King David ⓘ |
| meaningOfName | God has heard ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| mentionedInBook |
1 Chronicles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2 Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedInChapter |
1 Chronicles 14
ⓘ
1 Chronicles 3 ⓘ 2 Samuel 5 ⓘ |
| mentionedInVerse |
1 Chronicles 14:7
ⓘ
1 Chronicles 3:8 ⓘ 2 Samuel 5:16 ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Elishamaʿ
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
אֱלִישָׁמָע NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInText | member of Davidic royal family ⓘ |
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: Elishama Description of subject: Elishama is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as one of King David’s sons.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.