Simon Zelotes
E136879
Simon Zelotes is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, traditionally identified by his zealous devotion to Jewish law or nationalist causes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Simon Zelotes canonical | 3 |
| Simon ho Zelotes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1177016 — 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: Simon Zelotes Context triple: [Simon the Zealot, hasAlias, Simon Zelotes]
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Simon bar Giora
Simon bar Giora was a prominent Jewish rebel leader during the First Jewish–Roman War, known for commanding revolutionary forces in Jerusalem before its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE.
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Marshal Catinat
Marshal Catinat was a prominent 17th-century French general and Marshal of France, noted for his disciplined leadership and key victories under Louis XIV.
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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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D.
Akiva
Akiva is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "protect" or "shelter," and is notably borne by figures such as the ancient Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva and screenwriter-producer Akiva Goldsman.
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Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
- 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: Simon Zelotes Target entity description: Simon Zelotes is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, traditionally identified by his zealous devotion to Jewish law or nationalist causes.
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A.
Simon bar Giora
Simon bar Giora was a prominent Jewish rebel leader during the First Jewish–Roman War, known for commanding revolutionary forces in Jerusalem before its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE.
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B.
Marshal Catinat
Marshal Catinat was a prominent 17th-century French general and Marshal of France, noted for his disciplined leadership and key victories under Louis XIV.
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C.
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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D.
Akiva
Akiva is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, meaning "protect" or "shelter," and is notably borne by figures such as the ancient Jewish sage Rabbi Akiva and screenwriter-producer Akiva Goldsman.
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E.
Thoosa
Thoosa is a minor sea nymph in Greek mythology, known primarily as the mother of the Cyclops Polyphemus by the sea god Poseidon.
- 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: Simon Zelotes Description of subject: Simon Zelotes is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the New Testament, traditionally identified by his zealous devotion to Jewish law or nationalist causes.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.