Zilpah
E65105
Zilpah is a biblical figure who served as Leah’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Gad and Asher.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zilpah canonical | 11 |
| Leah’s maid Zilpah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T519458 — 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: Zilpah Context triple: [Jacob, concubine, Zilpah]
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A.
Bilhah
Bilhah is a biblical figure who served as Rachel’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Dan and Naphtali.
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B.
Keturah
Keturah is a woman in the Hebrew Bible known as a later wife or concubine of Abraham, through whom several Arabian tribes are traditionally traced.
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C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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D.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
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E.
Rebekah
Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
- 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: Zilpah Target entity description: Zilpah is a biblical figure who served as Leah’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Gad and Asher.
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A.
Bilhah
Bilhah is a biblical figure who served as Rachel’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Dan and Naphtali.
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B.
Keturah
Keturah is a woman in the Hebrew Bible known as a later wife or concubine of Abraham, through whom several Arabian tribes are traditionally traced.
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C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
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D.
Hagar
Hagar is a biblical figure known as the Egyptian servant of Sarah who bore Abraham’s son Ishmael and is revered in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions.
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E.
Rebekah
Rebekah is a feminine given name, traditionally associated with the biblical matriarch Rebecca and used in various English-speaking cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
maidservant ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
Genesis 29
ⓘ
Genesis 30 ⓘ Genesis 35 ⓘ Genesis 37 ⓘ |
| associatedTribe |
Tribe of Asher
ⓘ
Tribe of Gad ⓘ |
| canonicalText |
Hebrew Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
Tanakh
Old Testament ⓘ
linked to:
Bible
|
| childrenCountWithJacob | 2 ⓘ |
| ethnicContext | ancient Near Eastern ⓘ |
| familyRelation |
member of the household of Jacob
ⓘ
member of the household of Laban ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenBy | Laban ⓘ |
| givenTo |
Jacob
ⓘ
Leah ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Asher
ⓘ
Gad ⓘ |
| narrativeContext | patriarchal stories of Jacob and his wives ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Islam ⓘ Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | handmaid given to Jacob as wife by Leah ⓘ |
| servantOf | Leah ⓘ |
| spouseOrConcubineOf | Jacob ⓘ |
| status |
concubine
ⓘ
handmaid ⓘ |
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: Zilpah Description of subject: Zilpah is a biblical figure who served as Leah’s maidservant and bore two of Jacob’s sons, Gad and Asher.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.