Gideon
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Gideon is a biblical judge and military leader in the Hebrew Bible known for delivering Israel from Midianite oppression and for his testing of God with the fleece.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gideon canonical | 40 |
| Gideon’s family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899330 — 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: Gideon Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Gideon]
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A.
Gideon
Gideon is a 1980 country concept album by Kenny Rogers that tells a cohesive narrative through its songs and features the hit single "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer."
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B.
Gideon Pitts Jr.
Gideon Pitts Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as a member of the Pitts family of Honeoye, New York, and a relative of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white abolitionist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
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C.
Stringer Bell
Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
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D.
Shadrach Bond
Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
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E.
Theodore
Theodore is a masculine given name of Greek origin, meaning "gift of God," from which the nickname Ted is derived.
- 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: Gideon Target entity description: Gideon is a biblical judge and military leader in the Hebrew Bible known for delivering Israel from Midianite oppression and for his testing of God with the fleece.
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A.
Gideon
Gideon is a 1980 country concept album by Kenny Rogers that tells a cohesive narrative through its songs and features the hit single "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer."
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B.
Gideon Pitts Jr.
Gideon Pitts Jr. was a 19th-century American figure best known as a member of the Pitts family of Honeoye, New York, and a relative of Helen Pitts Douglass, the white abolitionist and second wife of Frederick Douglass.
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C.
Stringer Bell
Stringer Bell is a central character in the television series "The Wire," a calculating drug kingpin who studies business and economics to run his criminal organization like a legitimate enterprise.
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D.
Shadrach Bond
Shadrach Bond was an American politician who became the first governor of the state of Illinois after it was admitted to the Union.
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E.
Theodore
Theodore is a masculine given name of Greek origin, meaning "gift of God," from which the nickname Ted is derived.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ judge of Israel ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Jerub-Baal
ⓘ
linked to:
Jerubbaal
Jerubbaal ⓘ Jerubbesheth ⓘ
linked to:
Ish-bosheth
|
| appearedTo | angel of the LORD ⓘ |
| biblicalBookChapter |
Judges 6
ⓘ
Judges 7 ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
Judges 8 ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
|
| burialPlace | tomb of Joash his father in Ophrah ⓘ |
| clan | Abiezrite ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | YHWH ⓘ |
| constructed | ephod at Ophrah ⓘ |
| cutDown | Asherah pole ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| destroyed | altar of Baal ⓘ |
| enemy |
Amalekites
ⓘ
Midianites ⓘ
linked to:
Midian
people of the East ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Israelite ⓘ |
| father | Joash ⓘ |
| fatherResidence | Ophrah of the Abiezrites ⓘ |
| givenName | Gideon ⓘ |
| legacy | Israel had peace for forty years in his days ⓘ |
| militaryForceSize | 300 men ⓘ |
| notableFor |
delivering Israel from Midianite oppression
ⓘ
night attack on Midianite camp ⓘ reducing his army from 32000 to 300 men ⓘ testing God with the fleece ⓘ |
| offeredSacrificeAt | Ophrah ⓘ |
| performedSign |
fleece dry and ground wet
ⓘ
fleece wet and ground dry ⓘ |
| refusedTitle | king of Israel ⓘ |
| religion | Yahwism ⓘ |
| role |
deliverer of Israel
ⓘ
judge of Israel ⓘ |
| said | The LORD will rule over you ⓘ |
| son | Abimelech ⓘ |
| sonCount | seventy sons ⓘ |
| spouseCount | many wives ⓘ |
| timePeriod | period of the Judges ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Manasseh ⓘ |
| weaponUsed |
clay jars
ⓘ
torches ⓘ trumpets ⓘ |
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: Gideon Description of subject: Gideon is a biblical judge and military leader in the Hebrew Bible known for delivering Israel from Midianite oppression and for his testing of God with the fleece.
Referenced by (41)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Judges
subject linked to:
Tribe of Naftali (in some traditions)
subject linked to:
Tribe of Naftali (in some traditions)
subject linked to:
Gideon Tomlinson (as Governor of Connecticut)
linked to: Gideon