Milcah
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Milcah is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known as the granddaughter of Terah and wife of Nahor, and as an ancestress in the patriarchal lineage.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11241958 — 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: Milcah Context triple: [Terah, grandfatherOf, Milcah]
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A.
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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B.
Elisheba
Elisheba is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, traditionally understood to mean “God is my oath” or “God is satisfaction.”
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C.
Dinah
Dinah is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the daughter of Jacob and Leah.
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D.
Tirza
Tirza is a river in Latvia that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the larger Gauja River system.
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E.
Keturah
Keturah is a woman in the Hebrew Bible known as a later wife or concubine of Abraham, through whom several Arabian tribes are traditionally traced.
- 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: Milcah Target entity description: Milcah is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known as the granddaughter of Terah and wife of Nahor, and as an ancestress in the patriarchal lineage.
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A.
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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B.
Elisheba
Elisheba is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, traditionally understood to mean “God is my oath” or “God is satisfaction.”
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C.
Dinah
Dinah is a biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as the daughter of Jacob and Leah.
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D.
Tirza
Tirza is a river in Latvia that serves as one of the tributaries feeding into the larger Gauja River system.
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E.
Keturah
Keturah is a woman in the Hebrew Bible known as a later wife or concubine of Abraham, through whom several Arabian tribes are traditionally traced.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
Genesis 11
ⓘ
Genesis 22 ⓘ Genesis 24 ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Bethuel
ⓘ
Buz ⓘ Chesed ⓘ Hazo ⓘ Jidlaph ⓘ Kemuel ⓘ Pildash ⓘ Uz ⓘ |
| hasCulturalContext | Ancient Near East ⓘ |
| hasEthnicContext | Aramean (by later association through Nahor’s line) ⓘ |
| hasFamilyRole | matriarch ⓘ |
| hasFather | Haran ⓘ |
| hasGrandfather | Terah ⓘ |
| hasHusband | Nahor ⓘ |
| hasLanguageContext | Hebrew ⓘ |
| hasNameMeaning | queen (traditional interpretation) ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Milkah
ⓘ
linked to:
Milcah
|
| hasRelative | Abraham ⓘ |
| hasReligionContext |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islamic tradition (as part of Abrahamic narratives) ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| hasSibling |
Iscah
ⓘ
Lot ⓘ |
| hasUncle | Abraham ⓘ |
| isAncestorOf |
Bethuel
ⓘ
Israelites ⓘ Jacob ⓘ Laban ⓘ Rebekah ⓘ |
| isPartOfLineage | patriarchal lineage of Abraham ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Mesopotamia
ⓘ
Ur of the Chaldeans ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| spouseOf | Nahor ⓘ |
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: Milcah Description of subject: Milcah is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known as the granddaughter of Terah and wife of Nahor, and as an ancestress in the patriarchal lineage.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.