Simeon
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Simeon is a biblical figure, one of the twelve sons of Jacob and a progenitor of one of the tribes of Israel.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simeon canonical | 67 |
| Shim'on | 2 |
| Joseph | 1 |
| Simeon (Biblical) | 1 |
| Simeon (biblical name) | 1 |
| Simeon son of Jacob | 1 |
| שִׁמְעוֹן | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T519444 — 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: Simeon Context triple: [Jacob, father, Simeon]
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A.
Samuel
Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
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B.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Immanuel
Immanuel is the given name of the influential German philosopher Immanuel Kant, a central figure in modern Western philosophy.
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D.
Saint Joachim
Saint Joachim is venerated in Christian tradition as the father of the Virgin Mary and the husband of Saint Anne.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
- 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: Simeon Target entity description: Simeon is a biblical figure, one of the twelve sons of Jacob and a progenitor of one of the tribes of Israel.
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A.
Samuel
Samuel is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin meaning "name of God" or "God has heard," widely used across many cultures and languages.
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B.
Samuel
Samuel is the birth name of the famed American author Mark Twain, known for classics like "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" and "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
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C.
Immanuel
Immanuel is the given name of the influential German philosopher Immanuel Kant, a central figure in modern Western philosophy.
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D.
Saint Joachim
Saint Joachim is venerated in Christian tradition as the father of the Virgin Mary and the husband of Saint Anne.
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E.
Joseph
Joseph is the first name of J. C. R. Licklider, a pioneering computer scientist often regarded as a key figure in the development of the internet and interactive computing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Simeon Description of subject: Simeon is a biblical figure, one of the twelve sons of Jacob and a progenitor of one of the tribes of Israel.
Referenced by (74)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Simeon
linked to: Simeon
linked to: Simeon
linked to: Simeon
subject linked to:
Tribe of Simeon
linked to: Simeon
subject linked to:
patriarch Jacob