Hilkiah
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Hilkiah is a biblical figure known as the father of the prophet Jeremiah and, in some traditions, identified with the high priest who discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hilkiah the high priest | 3 |
| Hilkiah canonical | 2 |
| High Priest Hilkiah | 1 |
| Hilkiah the priest | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3095944 — 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: Hilkiah Context triple: [Jeremiah, father, Hilkiah]
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A.
Mattaniah
Mattaniah is the birth name of the last king of Judah, later renamed Zedekiah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
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B.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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C.
Zerubbabel
Zerubbabel was a Jewish leader and governor of Judah under Persian rule who oversaw the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.
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D.
Hezekiah
Hezekiah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, remembered for his religious reforms, resistance to Assyrian invasion, and reliance on prophetic counsel.
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E.
Huldah
Huldah is a prophetess in the Hebrew Bible known for authenticating the rediscovered Book of the Law during King Josiah’s reign and delivering God’s judgment and promises to Judah.
- 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: Hilkiah Target entity description: Hilkiah is a biblical figure known as the father of the prophet Jeremiah and, in some traditions, identified with the high priest who discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple.
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A.
Mattaniah
Mattaniah is the birth name of the last king of Judah, later renamed Zedekiah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
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B.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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C.
Zerubbabel
Zerubbabel was a Jewish leader and governor of Judah under Persian rule who oversaw the rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.
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D.
Hezekiah
Hezekiah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, remembered for his religious reforms, resistance to Assyrian invasion, and reliance on prophetic counsel.
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E.
Huldah
Huldah is a prophetess in the Hebrew Bible known for authenticating the rediscovered Book of the Law during King Josiah’s reign and delivering God’s judgment and promises to Judah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Josiah’s religious reform ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Anathoth ⓘ |
| associatedText | Book of the Law ⓘ |
| category |
Biblical Jeremiah family member
ⓘ
Jewish priest ⓘ Old Testament person ⓘ |
| child | Jeremiah ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Jeremiah
ⓘ
King Josiah of Judah ⓘ
linked to:
Josiah
|
| describedAs | father of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah ⓘ |
| floruit | late 7th century BCE ⓘ |
| givenName | Hilkiah ⓘ |
| highPriestRoleTradition | discoverer of the Book of the Law in the Temple ⓘ |
| identificationStatus | traditionally but not universally identified with the high priest of Josiah’s reform ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Biblical Hebrew
ⓘ
linked to:
Hebrew
|
| mentionedIn |
Book of 2 Chronicles
ⓘ
linked to:
2 Chronicles
Book of 2 Kings ⓘ Book of Jeremiah ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | Yahweh is my portion ⓘ |
| occupation | priest ⓘ |
| religiousRole | priest in Anathoth ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | linked to preservation of the Torah in some traditions ⓘ |
| religiousText |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInTradition | father of the prophet Jeremiah ⓘ |
| scripturalGenealogy | father of Jeremiah the prophet ⓘ |
| sometimesIdentifiedWith |
Hilkiah the high priest
ⓘ
linked to:
Hilkiah
|
| sourceForBookDiscovery |
2 Chronicles 34
ⓘ
linked to:
2 Chronicles
2 Kings 22 ⓘ |
| sourceForFatherhood | Jeremiah 1:1 ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Benjamin ⓘ |
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: Hilkiah Description of subject: Hilkiah is a biblical figure known as the father of the prophet Jeremiah and, in some traditions, identified with the high priest who discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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