Ehud
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Ehud is a biblical judge and deliverer of Israel known for assassinating the Moabite king Eglon in the Book of Judges.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ehud canonical | 10 |
| Israelites under Ehud | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899326 — 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: Ehud Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Ehud]
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A.
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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B.
Ze'ev
Ze'ev is a Hebrew given name meaning "wolf," commonly used in Israel and among Jewish communities worldwide.
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C.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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D.
Shlomo
Shlomo is the Hebrew name for King Solomon, the biblical monarch renowned for his wisdom, wealth, and the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem.
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E.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
- 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: Ehud Target entity description: Ehud is a biblical judge and deliverer of Israel known for assassinating the Moabite king Eglon in the Book of Judges.
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A.
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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B.
Ze'ev
Ze'ev is a Hebrew given name meaning "wolf," commonly used in Israel and among Jewish communities worldwide.
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C.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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D.
Shlomo
Shlomo is the Hebrew name for King Solomon, the biblical monarch renowned for his wisdom, wealth, and the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem.
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E.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Old Testament character
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ deliverer of Israel ⓘ judge of Israel ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | Judges 3 ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
God using unexpected instruments
ⓘ
divine deliverance ⓘ |
| battleLocation | fords of the Jordan ⓘ |
| blewTrumpetIn |
hill country of Ephraim
ⓘ
linked to:
Mount Ephraim
|
| broughtToEglon | tribute ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | canonical biblical character ⓘ |
| carriedWeaponOn | right thigh ⓘ |
| claimedMessageFrom | God ⓘ |
| consequence | eighty years of rest for Israel ⓘ |
| describedAs | left-handed ⓘ |
| escapedFrom | Eglon’s upper room ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Israelite
ⓘ
linked to:
Israelites
|
| father | Gera ⓘ |
| fledTo | Seirah ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| handedness | left-handed ⓘ |
| killed | Eglon ⓘ |
| knownFor |
assassinating King Eglon of Moab
ⓘ
delivering Israel from Moabite oppression ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySources |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| ledAttackAgainst | Moabites ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Judges
ⓘ
linked to:
Judges
Christian Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| opponent |
Eglon
ⓘ
Moabites ⓘ |
| opponentNation | Moab ⓘ |
| rallied | Israelites ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| resultedIn |
Moab subdued under the hand of Israel
ⓘ
slaughter of about ten thousand Moabites ⓘ |
| role |
assassin of Eglon
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judge ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| scripturalReference | Judges 3:12–30 ⓘ |
| sentBy | Israelites ⓘ |
| timePeriod | period of the Judges ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Benjamin ⓘ |
| weaponLength | a cubit ⓘ |
| weaponUsed | double-edged sword ⓘ |
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: Ehud Description of subject: Ehud is a biblical judge and deliverer of Israel known for assassinating the Moabite king Eglon in the Book of Judges.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.