Eglah
E22551
Eglah is a lesser-known wife of the biblical King David, mentioned among the mothers of his sons in the Hebrew Bible.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eglah canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T158605 — 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: Eglah Context triple: [King David, spouse, Eglah]
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A.
Jericho
Jericho is an ancient city in the West Bank, often regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world and noted for its biblical significance.
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B.
Safed
Safed is a historic hilltop city in northern Israel renowned as one of Judaism’s four holy cities and a major center of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah).
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C.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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D.
Hebron
Hebron is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a major historic and religious center in the southern West Bank revered in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
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E.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
- 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: Eglah Target entity description: Eglah is a lesser-known wife of the biblical King David, mentioned among the mothers of his sons in the Hebrew Bible.
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A.
Jericho
Jericho is an ancient city in the West Bank, often regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the world and noted for its biblical significance.
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B.
Safed
Safed is a historic hilltop city in northern Israel renowned as one of Judaism’s four holy cities and a major center of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah).
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C.
Tiberias
Tiberias is an ancient city in northern Israel on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, historically significant as a major center of Jewish learning and pilgrimage.
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D.
Hebron
Hebron is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a major historic and religious center in the southern West Bank revered in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
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E.
Golus
Golus is a Yiddish term referring to the Jewish exile and dispersion from their ancestral homeland, encompassing both the physical diaspora and its spiritual-historical implications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
woman in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Hebron ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
House of David
ⓘ
linked to:
King Davidic dynasty
|
| canonicalStatus | canonical biblical figure ⓘ |
| describedAs | lesser-known wife of David ⓘ |
| father | David ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasRole | wife of King David ⓘ |
| hasSon | Ithream ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| listedAmong | mothers of David’s sons ⓘ |
| maritalContext | polygynous marriage to David ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
1 Chronicles 3
ⓘ
2 Samuel 3 ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| mother | Eglah ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | minor character ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
David
ⓘ
King of Israel ⓘ |
| timePeriod | biblical monarchic period ⓘ |
| traditionNotes | sometimes identified by some traditions with Michal, though this is not explicit in the text ⓘ |
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: Eglah Description of subject: Eglah is a lesser-known wife of the biblical King David, mentioned among the mothers of his sons in the Hebrew Bible.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.