Abinadab
E185865
Abinadab is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as one of King David’s brothers and a son of Jesse of Bethlehem.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abinadab canonical | 14 |
| Abinadab son of Jesse | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1651849 — 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: Abinadab Context triple: [Jesse, hasSon, Abinadab]
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A.
Abinadab
Abinadab is a son of King Saul mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known for dying alongside his father in battle against the Philistines.
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B.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Boaz
Boaz is one of the two prominent bronze pillars that stood at the entrance of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, as described in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Boaz
Boaz is a prominent figure in the Hebrew Bible, known as a wealthy and righteous landowner of Bethlehem who marries Ruth and becomes an ancestor of King David.
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E.
Ehud
Ehud is a biblical judge and deliverer of Israel known for assassinating the Moabite king Eglon in the Book of Judges.
- 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: Abinadab Target entity description: Abinadab is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as one of King David’s brothers and a son of Jesse of Bethlehem.
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A.
Abinadab
Abinadab is a son of King Saul mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known for dying alongside his father in battle against the Philistines.
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B.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
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C.
Boaz
Boaz is one of the two prominent bronze pillars that stood at the entrance of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem, as described in the Hebrew Bible.
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D.
Boaz
Boaz is a prominent figure in the Hebrew Bible, known as a wealthy and righteous landowner of Bethlehem who marries Ruth and becomes an ancestor of King David.
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E.
Ehud
Ehud is a biblical judge and deliverer of Israel known for assassinating the Moabite king Eglon in the Book of Judges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| ethnicity | Israelite ⓘ |
| familyName | son of Jesse ⓘ |
| father | Jesse ⓘ |
| fatherResidence | Bethlehem ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
1 Chronicles
ⓘ
1 Samuel ⓘ |
| nameMeaningApproximate | my father is noble ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Abinadab son of Jesse
ⓘ
linked to:
Abinadab
|
| notableRelative | King David ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Bethlehem ⓘ |
| religiousCanonStatus |
recognized in Christian Old Testament
ⓘ
recognized in Jewish canon ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInText |
brother of David
ⓘ
son of Jesse of Bethlehem ⓘ |
| sibling |
David
ⓘ
Eliab ⓘ Shammah ⓘ |
| timePeriod | monarchy of ancient Israel ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Judah ⓘ |
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: Abinadab Description of subject: Abinadab is a biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as one of King David’s brothers and a son of Jesse of Bethlehem.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.