Amasa
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Amasa is a biblical military commander mentioned in the Old Testament, notably involved in the power struggles during King David’s reign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amasa canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4852318 — 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: Amasa Context triple: [Joab, killed, Amasa]
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A.
Isaiah Bradley
Isaiah Bradley is a Marvel Comics character who became an early, covert Captain America figure after being subjected to experimental super-soldier treatments on African American soldiers.
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B.
Amasa Stone
Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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C.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Abijah
Abijah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, known for his brief reign following his father Rehoboam and his conflicts with the northern kingdom of Israel.
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E.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
- 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: Amasa Target entity description: Amasa is a biblical military commander mentioned in the Old Testament, notably involved in the power struggles during King David’s reign.
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A.
Isaiah Bradley
Isaiah Bradley is a Marvel Comics character who became an early, covert Captain America figure after being subjected to experimental super-soldier treatments on African American soldiers.
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B.
Amasa Stone
Amasa Stone was a prominent 19th-century American industrialist and railroad magnate based in Cleveland, Ohio.
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C.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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D.
Abijah
Abijah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, known for his brief reign following his father Rehoboam and his conflicts with the northern kingdom of Israel.
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E.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Old Testament person
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Absalom
ⓘ
King David ⓘ |
| appointmentContext |
Absalom's rebellion against David
ⓘ
David's effort to reconcile with Judah after Absalom's revolt ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Absalom's revolt
ⓘ
linked to:
Absalom’s rebellion
Sheba's rebellion ⓘ |
| cousin |
Abishai
ⓘ
Asahel ⓘ Joab ⓘ |
| deathContext | pursuit of Sheba son of Bichri ⓘ |
| deathLocation | near Gibeon ⓘ |
| deathMethod | stabbed ⓘ |
| familyConnection | son of David's sister Abigail ⓘ |
| father | Jether ⓘ |
| fatherAlternativeName | Ithra ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
United Monarchy of Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)
|
| killedBy | Joab ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| maternalAunt | Zeruiah ⓘ |
| maternalUncle | King David ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
First Book of Chronicles
ⓘ
linked to:
1 Chronicles
Second Book of Samuel ⓘ
linked to:
2 Samuel
|
| mother | Abigail ⓘ |
| nameLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | burden ⓘ |
| nationality | Israelite ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being treacherously killed by Joab
ⓘ
replacing Joab as commander under David ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
David
ⓘ
Joab ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| role |
commander of Absalom's army
ⓘ
commander of David's army ⓘ |
| scripturalReference |
1 Chronicles 2
ⓘ
2 Samuel 17 ⓘ
linked to:
2 Samuel
2 Samuel 19 ⓘ 2 Samuel 20 ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Absalom
ⓘ
King David ⓘ |
| tribe | 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: Amasa Description of subject: Amasa is a biblical military commander mentioned in the Old Testament, notably involved in the power struggles during King David’s reign.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.