שָׂשׂוֹן
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שָׂשׂוֹן is a Hebrew given name and noun meaning "joy" or "gladness," commonly used in Jewish liturgy and modern Hebrew.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| שָׂשׂוֹן canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13339800 — 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: שָׂשׂוֹן Context triple: [Sasson, script, שָׂשׂוֹן]
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A.
Shosha
Shosha is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that portrays a doomed love story set against the backdrop of pre–World War II Jewish Warsaw.
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B.
Shfar'am
Shfar'am is an ancient, predominantly Arab city in northern Israel known for its historically mixed Muslim, Christian, and Druze population.
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C.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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D.
Shammua
Shammua is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as one of the sons of David.
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E.
Shlomtzion
Shlomtzion is the Hebrew name of Salome Alexandra, a 1st-century BCE Hasmonean queen of Judea known for her pious rule and support of the Pharisees.
- 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: שָׂשׂוֹן Target entity description: שָׂשׂוֹן is a Hebrew given name and noun meaning "joy" or "gladness," commonly used in Jewish liturgy and modern Hebrew.
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A.
Shosha
Shosha is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer that portrays a doomed love story set against the backdrop of pre–World War II Jewish Warsaw.
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B.
Shfar'am
Shfar'am is an ancient, predominantly Arab city in northern Israel known for its historically mixed Muslim, Christian, and Druze population.
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C.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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D.
Shammua
Shammua is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament, known primarily as one of the sons of David.
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E.
Shlomtzion
Shlomtzion is the Hebrew name of Salome Alexandra, a 1st-century BCE Hasmonean queen of Judea known for her pious rule and support of the Pharisees.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
ⓘ
Hebrew masculine given name ⓘ Hebrew noun ⓘ Jewish given name ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Jewish prayer texts ⓘ |
| associatedReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| category |
Hebrew masculine given names
ⓘ
Hebrew words and phrases ⓘ Jewish liturgical terms ⓘ |
| culturalAssociation |
festive occasions
ⓘ
positive emotion ⓘ religious celebrations ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | שׂוּשׂ (to rejoice) ⓘ |
| genderAsName | masculine ⓘ |
| genderAsNoun | masculine ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
gladness
ⓘ
joy ⓘ |
| hasPluralForm | שְׂשׂוֹנוֹת ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration |
Sason
ⓘ
Sasson ⓘ Sasson (name) ⓘ
linked to:
Sasson
|
| language | Hebrew ⓘ |
| nameType | theophoric-free Hebrew name ⓘ |
| oftenAppearsWith |
שִׂמְחָה (simchah, joy)
ⓘ
שָׂשׂוֹן וְשִׂמְחָה (joy and gladness) ⓘ |
| partOfLexicon |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
Israeli Hebrew ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
Rabbinic Hebrew ⓘ
linked to:
Mishnaic Hebrew
|
| register |
everyday Modern Hebrew
ⓘ
formal ⓘ liturgical ⓘ |
| relatedForm |
לָשׂוּשׂ (to rejoice)
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שָׂשׂ (sas, glad) ⓘ |
| script | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| semanticField |
celebration
ⓘ
emotional state ⓘ happiness ⓘ |
| usedAs |
abstract noun
ⓘ
first name ⓘ liturgical term ⓘ |
| usedByCommunity | Jewish communities worldwide ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Jewish liturgy
ⓘ
Modern Hebrew ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
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: שָׂשׂוֹן Description of subject: שָׂשׂוֹן is a Hebrew given name and noun meaning "joy" or "gladness," commonly used in Jewish liturgy and modern Hebrew.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.