Abimelech
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Abimelech is a Philistine king mentioned in the Book of Genesis, known for his interactions and covenant with the patriarch Abraham.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abimelech canonical | 4 |
| Abimelech king of the Philistines | 1 |
| Abimélech | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7901631 — 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: Abimelech Context triple: [Genesis 21, mainCharacter, Abimelech]
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A.
Abimelech
Abimelech is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges known for violently seizing kingship over Shechem and meeting a dramatic death when a woman dropped a millstone on his head.
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B.
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.
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C.
Abinoam
Abinoam is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as the father of the Israelite military leader Barak.
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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.
Abel Beth Maacah
Abel Beth Maacah was an ancient fortified city in northern Israel, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a strategic site near the borders of Aram and Phoenicia.
- 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: Abimelech Target entity description: Abimelech is a Philistine king mentioned in the Book of Genesis, known for his interactions and covenant with the patriarch Abraham.
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A.
Abimelech
Abimelech is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges known for violently seizing kingship over Shechem and meeting a dramatic death when a woman dropped a millstone on his head.
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B.
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.
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C.
Abinoam
Abinoam is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as the father of the Israelite military leader Barak.
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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.
Abel Beth Maacah
Abel Beth Maacah was an ancient fortified city in northern Israel, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as a strategic site near the borders of Aram and Phoenicia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Philistine king
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ |
| acknowledges | God is with Abraham ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
Genesis 20
ⓘ
Genesis 21 ⓘ Genesis 26 ⓘ |
| asks | Abraham why he misled him about Sarah ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Gerar region
ⓘ
linked to:
Gerar (region)
Philistine territory ⓘ
linked to:
Philistia
|
| claims | innocence regarding Sarah ⓘ |
| commands | his people not to harm Abraham ⓘ |
| concernedAbout | well of water seized by his servants ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Philistine
ⓘ
linked to:
Philistines
|
| fearMotive | fear of bringing guilt on his kingdom ⓘ |
| genreContext | patriarchal narratives ⓘ |
| givesItem |
male and female servants
ⓘ
sheep and oxen ⓘ |
| givesTo | Abraham ⓘ |
| grantsRight | to dwell in his land ⓘ |
| grantsTo | Abraham ⓘ |
| hasCovenantWith | Abraham ⓘ |
| hasDreamFrom | God ⓘ |
| hasInteractionWith | Abraham ⓘ |
| hasOfficial | Phicol ⓘ |
| healedBy | God after Abraham’s prayer ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| literaryRole | foreign king interacting with patriarch ⓘ |
| makesTreatyAt | Beersheba ⓘ |
| makesTreatyWith | Abraham ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | my father is king ⓘ |
| receivesPrayerFrom | Abraham ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | righteous in God’s response ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Christian Old Testament
|
| returnsItem | Sarah ⓘ |
| returnsTo | Abraham ⓘ |
| rulesOver | Gerar ⓘ |
| sourceText | Masoretic Text ⓘ |
| takesIntoHouse | Sarah ⓘ |
| title | king of Gerar ⓘ |
| tradition |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| warnedBy | God in a dream ⓘ |
| warnedNotTo | touch Sarah ⓘ |
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: Abimelech Description of subject: Abimelech is a Philistine king mentioned in the Book of Genesis, known for his interactions and covenant with the patriarch Abraham.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
גְּרָר (Hebrew: Gerar)
subject linked to:
biblical patriarch Isaac
linked to: Abimelech
subject linked to:
operas such as "Samson et Dalila" by Camille Saint-Saëns
linked to: Abimelech