Ibzan
E105697
Ibzan is a minor biblical judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for his large family and brief period of leadership.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ibzan canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899335 — 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: Ibzan Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Ibzan]
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A.
Bojaxhiu
Bojaxhiu is the Albanian family name of Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her charitable work with the poor in Kolkata, India.
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B.
Hernici
The Hernici were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, known for their early alliance and later conflicts with the expanding Roman Republic.
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C.
Embera
Embera is an Indigenous people of Colombia and Panama known for their distinct languages, traditional riverine communities, and rich artistic and spiritual practices.
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D.
Tosk
Tosk is the southern variety of Albanian that forms the basis of the standard Albanian language.
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E.
Brega
Brega is a strategic coastal town in northeastern Libya known for its major oil facilities and its role as a key battleground during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
- 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: Ibzan Target entity description: Ibzan is a minor biblical judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for his large family and brief period of leadership.
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A.
Bojaxhiu
Bojaxhiu is the Albanian family name of Mother Teresa, the Catholic nun and missionary renowned for her charitable work with the poor in Kolkata, India.
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B.
Hernici
The Hernici were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy, known for their early alliance and later conflicts with the expanding Roman Republic.
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C.
Embera
Embera is an Indigenous people of Colombia and Panama known for their distinct languages, traditional riverine communities, and rich artistic and spiritual practices.
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D.
Tosk
Tosk is the southern variety of Albanian that forms the basis of the standard Albanian language.
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E.
Brega
Brega is a strategic coastal town in northeastern Libya known for its major oil facilities and its role as a key battleground during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Judge of Israel
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ minor biblical judge ⓘ |
| appearsInCanon |
Catholic canon
ⓘ
Jewish canon ⓘ Orthodox canon ⓘ Protestant canon ⓘ |
| associatedWithLocation | Bethlehem ⓘ |
| broughtInWivesForSonsFrom | outside his clan ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Bethlehem ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfChildren | 60 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfDaughters | 30 ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfSons | 30 ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| lengthOfJudgeship | 7 years ⓘ |
| marriedOffDaughtersTo | men outside his clan ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
|
| notableFor |
arranging numerous marriages
ⓘ
having many sons and daughters ⓘ |
| positionHeld | judge of Israel ⓘ |
| predecessor | Jephthah ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | leader during period of the Judges ⓘ |
| ruledOver | Israel ⓘ |
| scripturalTradition |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| sourceTextChapter | Judges 12 ⓘ |
| sourceTextVerses | Judges 12:8–10 ⓘ |
| successor | Elon the Zebulunite ⓘ |
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: Ibzan Description of subject: Ibzan is a minor biblical judge of Israel mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for his large family and brief period of leadership.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.