Maacah daughter of Talmai
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Maacah daughter of Talmai was a royal woman of Geshur and the mother of Absalom, one of King David’s sons in the Hebrew Bible.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maacah daughter of Talmai canonical | 3 |
| Maacah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur | 1 |
| Tamar daughter of Absalom’s mother | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4852348 — 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: Maacah daughter of Talmai Context triple: [Absalom, mother, Maacah daughter of Talmai]
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A.
Maacah daughter of Absalom
Maacah daughter of Absalom was a Judean queen and influential royal consort in the Hebrew Bible, noted as the favored wife of King Rehoboam and mother of King Abijah.
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B.
Michal daughter of Saul
Michal, daughter of King Saul, was a wife of King David in the Hebrew Bible, known for her complex and often tragic relationship with him and her father.
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C.
Ahinoam of Jezreel
Ahinoam of Jezreel was one of King David’s wives in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Amnon.
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D.
Mahalath daughter of Ishmael
Mahalath daughter of Ishmael is a woman from the patriarchal narratives of the Hebrew Bible, notable as a granddaughter of Abraham through Ishmael and a wife of Esau.
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E.
Oholibamah daughter of Anah
Oholibamah daughter of Anah is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Esau’s wives and a matriarch of Edomite descendants.
- 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: Maacah daughter of Talmai Target entity description: Maacah daughter of Talmai was a royal woman of Geshur and the mother of Absalom, one of King David’s sons in the Hebrew Bible.
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A.
Maacah daughter of Absalom
Maacah daughter of Absalom was a Judean queen and influential royal consort in the Hebrew Bible, noted as the favored wife of King Rehoboam and mother of King Abijah.
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B.
Michal daughter of Saul
Michal, daughter of King Saul, was a wife of King David in the Hebrew Bible, known for her complex and often tragic relationship with him and her father.
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C.
Ahinoam of Jezreel
Ahinoam of Jezreel was one of King David’s wives in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Amnon.
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D.
Mahalath daughter of Ishmael
Mahalath daughter of Ishmael is a woman from the patriarchal narratives of the Hebrew Bible, notable as a granddaughter of Abraham through Ishmael and a wife of Esau.
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E.
Oholibamah daughter of Anah
Oholibamah daughter of Anah is a woman mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Esau’s wives and a matriarch of Edomite descendants.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
royal woman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kingdom of Geshur
ⓘ
linked to:
Geshur
United Monarchy of Israel ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy)
|
| child |
Absalom
ⓘ
Tamar daughter of David ⓘ
linked to:
Tamar
|
| culture | ancient Israelite and Geshurite context ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Geshurite
ⓘ
linked to:
Geshur
|
| father | Talmai king of Geshur ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageContext | Biblical Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
1 Chronicles 3:2
ⓘ
2 Samuel 13:37 ⓘ 2 Samuel 3:3 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Geshurite royal lineage
ⓘ
being the mother of Absalom ⓘ |
| relative |
Absalom
ⓘ
King David ⓘ Talmai king of Geshur ⓘ Tamar daughter of David ⓘ
linked to:
Tamar
|
| religiousSignificance |
figure in Christian biblical tradition
ⓘ
figure in Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
|
| spouse | King David ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age Levant (traditional biblical chronology) ⓘ |
| title | princess of Geshur ⓘ |
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: Maacah daughter of Talmai Description of subject: Maacah daughter of Talmai was a royal woman of Geshur and the mother of Absalom, one of King David’s sons in the Hebrew Bible.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Talmai king of Geshur
subject linked to:
Talmai king of Geshur
subject linked to:
Talmai king of Geshur
linked to: Maacah daughter of Talmai