Jephta
E102854
Jephta is a 17th-century Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that dramatizes the biblical story of Jephthah and his fateful vow.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T880056 — 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: Jephta Context triple: [Joost van den Vondel, notableWork, Jephta]
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A.
Samson the Nazarite
"Samson the Nazarite" is a 1927 historical novel by Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky that reimagines the biblical story of Samson as a modern nationalist and freedom-fighter narrative.
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B.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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C.
Saul
Saul is a surname most notably associated with Canadian philosopher and writer John Ralston Saul.
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D.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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E.
Elisha
Elisha is the given first name of former NFL quarterback Eli Manning, who led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
- 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: Jephta Target entity description: Jephta is a 17th-century Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that dramatizes the biblical story of Jephthah and his fateful vow.
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A.
Samson the Nazarite
"Samson the Nazarite" is a 1927 historical novel by Zionist leader Ze'ev Jabotinsky that reimagines the biblical story of Samson as a modern nationalist and freedom-fighter narrative.
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B.
Yoshua
Yoshua is a male given name most notably borne by Yoshua Bengio, a pioneering Canadian computer scientist and deep learning researcher.
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C.
Saul
Saul is a surname most notably associated with Canadian philosopher and writer John Ralston Saul.
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D.
Zimran
Zimran is a lesser-known biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of Abraham's sons by his wife Keturah.
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E.
Elisha
Elisha is the given first name of former NFL quarterback Eli Manning, who led the New York Giants to two Super Bowl championships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Dutch play
ⓘ
play ⓘ tragedy ⓘ |
| author | Joost van den Vondel ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Biblical story of Jephthah
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Judges ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
|
| countryOfOrigin | Dutch Republic ⓘ |
| creator | Joost van den Vondel ⓘ |
| genre |
religious drama
ⓘ
tragedy ⓘ |
| hasBiblicalFigure |
Jephthah
ⓘ
Jephthah's daughter ⓘ |
| hasInfluence | Dutch religious theatre tradition ⓘ |
| language | Dutch ⓘ |
| literaryForm | verse drama ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 17th century ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jephthah ⓘ |
| movement | Dutch Golden Age literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
Jephthah's vow
ⓘ
consequences of a rash oath ⓘ |
| originalWorkTitle | Jephta self-link ⓘ |
| partOf | Joost van den Vondel's dramatic works ⓘ |
| religiousContext |
Christianity
ⓘ
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| setting |
Ancient Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Israel
|
| theme |
obedience to God
ⓘ
sacrifice ⓘ tragic fate ⓘ vows ⓘ |
| workType | stage play ⓘ |
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: Jephta Description of subject: Jephta is a 17th-century Dutch tragedy by Joost van den Vondel that dramatizes the biblical story of Jephthah and his fateful vow.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book of Judges
this entity surface form:
Jephthah