Baal-hazor
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Baal-hazor is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the site where Absalom orchestrated the killing of his half-brother Amnon.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baal-hazor canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4852688 — 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: Baal-hazor Context triple: [Absalom’s revenge on Amnon, hasLocation, Baal-hazor]
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A.
Hamath
Hamath is an ancient city of Syria, frequently mentioned in Near Eastern and biblical sources, located at the site of modern Hama on the Orontes River.
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B.
Ḫarrānu
Ḫarrānu is the Akkadian name for the ancient Mesopotamian city of Harran, a major commercial and religious center known especially for its association with the moon god Sin.
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C.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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D.
Shunem
Shunem was an ancient town in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, noted in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the Shunammite woman who hosted the prophet Elisha.
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E.
Bashan
Bashan is a historically significant region east of the Jordan River, renowned in biblical texts for its fertile lands, strong cities, and mighty cattle.
- 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: Baal-hazor Target entity description: Baal-hazor is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the site where Absalom orchestrated the killing of his half-brother Amnon.
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A.
Hamath
Hamath is an ancient city of Syria, frequently mentioned in Near Eastern and biblical sources, located at the site of modern Hama on the Orontes River.
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B.
Ḫarrānu
Ḫarrānu is the Akkadian name for the ancient Mesopotamian city of Harran, a major commercial and religious center known especially for its association with the moon god Sin.
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C.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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D.
Shunem
Shunem was an ancient town in the Jezreel Valley of Israel, noted in the Hebrew Bible as the home of the Shunammite woman who hosted the prophet Elisha.
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E.
Bashan
Bashan is a historically significant region east of the Jordan River, renowned in biblical texts for its fertile lands, strong cities, and mighty cattle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical location
ⓘ
mountain ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | killing of Amnon by Absalom’s servants ⓘ |
| associatedWithPerson |
Absalom
ⓘ
Amnon ⓘ King David ⓘ |
| describedAs |
place where Absalom held a sheep-shearing feast
ⓘ
site of Amnon’s murder ⓘ |
| eventSequenceRole | prelude to Absalom’s rebellion ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeDescription | Baal-hazor, which is beside Ephraim ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalReference | 2 Samuel 13:23 ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
ancient Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Ancient Israel
region of Ephraim ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Ephraim ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
2 Samuel
ⓘ
2 Samuel 13 ⓘ Hebrew Bible ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| nameContainsTheonym | Baal ⓘ |
| relatedToTheme |
revenge for Tamar
ⓘ
royal family conflict ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | setting for Absalom’s plot against Amnon ⓘ |
| sheepShearingSiteOf | Absalom ⓘ |
| timeContext | reign of King David ⓘ |
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: Baal-hazor Description of subject: Baal-hazor is a location mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the site where Absalom orchestrated the killing of his half-brother Amnon.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.