Shamgar
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Shamgar is a minor biblical judge and warrior mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for defeating a large number of Philistines with an oxgoad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shamgar canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899327 — 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: Shamgar Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Shamgar]
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A.
Othniel
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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B.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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C.
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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D.
Shealtiel
Shealtiel is a biblical figure known primarily as a descendant of King Jehoiachin and an ancestor of Zerubbabel in the Davidic royal line.
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E.
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.
- 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: Shamgar Target entity description: Shamgar is a minor biblical judge and warrior mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for defeating a large number of Philistines with an oxgoad.
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A.
Othniel
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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B.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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C.
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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D.
Shealtiel
Shealtiel is a biblical figure known primarily as a descendant of King Jehoiachin and an ancestor of Zerubbabel in the Davidic royal line.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
judge of Israel ⓘ warrior ⓘ |
| associatedWithPeople | Philistines ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
ancient Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Israel
|
| category |
Biblical judges
ⓘ
Book of Judges characters ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Philistines ⓘ |
| describedAs | minor judge ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Israelites ⓘ |
| father |
Anath
ⓘ
linked to:
Anat
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defeating Philistines with an oxgoad
ⓘ
killing 600 Philistines ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
|
| narrativeFunction | savior of Israel from enemies ⓘ |
| positionInNarrative |
follows Ehud
ⓘ
precedes Deborah ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| role |
deliverer of Israel
ⓘ
judge of Israel ⓘ |
| scripturalCanon |
Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
linked to:
Christian biblical canon
Jewish Tanakh ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| sourceText |
Judges 3:31
ⓘ
Judges 5:6 ⓘ |
| timePeriod | era of the judges ⓘ |
| weaponUsed | oxgoad ⓘ |
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: Shamgar Description of subject: Shamgar is a minor biblical judge and warrior mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for defeating a large number of Philistines with an oxgoad.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Judges