Othniel
E108900
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Othniel canonical | 10 |
| Othniel son of Kenaz | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899325 — 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: Othniel Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Othniel]
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A.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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B.
Jephta
Jephta is a 17th-century Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that dramatizes the biblical story of Jephthah and his fateful vow.
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C.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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D.
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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E.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
- 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: Othniel Target entity description: Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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A.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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B.
Jephta
Jephta is a 17th-century Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that dramatizes the biblical story of Jephthah and his fateful vow.
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C.
Joshua
Joshua is a book of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament that narrates the Israelite conquest and settlement of Canaan under the leadership of Joshua.
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D.
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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E.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ judge of Israel ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| associatedWithPlace | Debir ⓘ |
| category |
Hebrew Bible people
ⓘ
Judges of Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Judge of Israel
Old Testament judges ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
ancient Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Israel
|
| defeated | Cushan-Rishathaim ⓘ |
| describedAs |
son of Kenaz
ⓘ
younger kinsman of Caleb ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Israelites ⓘ |
| familyName | Kenaz ⓘ |
| father | Kenaz ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governed | Israel ⓘ |
| knownForEvent | capture of Debir ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| liberated | Israelites ⓘ |
| militaryConflict | war against the king of Aram-Naharaim ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | God is my strength ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first judge of Israel
ⓘ
delivering the Israelites from oppression ⓘ |
| periodOfRule | 40 years ⓘ |
| positionHeld | judge of Israel ⓘ |
| precededBy | Joshua ⓘ |
| relative | Caleb ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| rewardReceived | marriage to Achsah ⓘ |
| role |
deliverer of Israel
ⓘ
military leader ⓘ |
| scripturalBook |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
|
| scripturalChapter |
Judges 3
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
|
| scripturalTradition | Deuteronomistic history ⓘ |
| spouse | Achsah ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Achsah ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Ehud ⓘ |
| timePeriod | period of the Judges ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Judah ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
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: Othniel Description of subject: Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.