Ish-bosheth
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Ish-bosheth is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled part of Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ish-bosheth canonical | 33 |
| Ishbaal | 2 |
| Jerubbesheth | 2 |
| Ishbosheth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T917094 — 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: Ish-bosheth Context triple: [2 Samuel, mainCharacter, Ish-bosheth]
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A.
Rehoboam
Rehoboam was a king of ancient Judah, best known for his harsh policies that led to the division of the united monarchy of Israel into the northern and southern kingdoms.
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B.
Amnon
Amnon is a biblical figure known as the eldest son of King David, whose rape of his half-sister Tamar and subsequent murder by her brother Absalom sparked major turmoil in David’s household.
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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.
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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E.
King of Judah
The King of Judah was the monarchic ruler of the ancient southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, centered in Jerusalem, during the period of the divided monarchy and subsequent vassalage to foreign empires.
- 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: Ish-bosheth Target entity description: Ish-bosheth is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled part of Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
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A.
Rehoboam
Rehoboam was a king of ancient Judah, best known for his harsh policies that led to the division of the united monarchy of Israel into the northern and southern kingdoms.
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B.
Amnon
Amnon is a biblical figure known as the eldest son of King David, whose rape of his half-sister Tamar and subsequent murder by her brother Absalom sparked major turmoil in David’s household.
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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.
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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E.
King of Judah
The King of Judah was the monarchic ruler of the ancient southern Hebrew kingdom of Judah, centered in Jerusalem, during the period of the divided monarchy and subsequent vassalage to foreign empires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Ish-bosheth Description of subject: Ish-bosheth is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled part of Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Jonathan (biblical figure)