Huldah
E105863
Huldah is a prophetess in the Hebrew Bible known for authenticating the rediscovered Book of the Law during King Josiah’s reign and delivering God’s judgment and promises to Judah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Huldah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T887817 — 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: Huldah Context triple: [Kings, mentionsProphet, Huldah]
-
A.
Ahinoam of Jezreel
Ahinoam of Jezreel was one of King David’s wives in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Amnon.
-
B.
Shealtiel
Shealtiel is a biblical figure known primarily as a descendant of King Jehoiachin and an ancestor of Zerubbabel in the Davidic royal line.
-
C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
-
D.
Miriam
Miriam is a prominent biblical figure known as the sister of Moses and Aaron and as a prophetess during the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
-
E.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
- 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: Huldah Target entity description: Huldah is a prophetess in the Hebrew Bible known for authenticating the rediscovered Book of the Law during King Josiah’s reign and delivering God’s judgment and promises to Judah.
-
A.
Ahinoam of Jezreel
Ahinoam of Jezreel was one of King David’s wives in the Hebrew Bible and the mother of his son Amnon.
-
B.
Shealtiel
Shealtiel is a biblical figure known primarily as a descendant of King Jehoiachin and an ancestor of Zerubbabel in the Davidic royal line.
-
C.
Miryam
Miryam is the Hebrew form of the name of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus in Christian tradition.
-
D.
Miriam
Miriam is a prominent biblical figure known as the sister of Moses and Aaron and as a prophetess during the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
-
E.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew Bible person
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ prophetess ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Jewish Temple
ⓘ
surface form:
Temple in Jerusalem
|
| associatedWith |
Achbor son of Micaiah
ⓘ
Ahikam son of Shaphan ⓘ Asaiah a servant of the king ⓘ Hilkiah ⓘ
surface form:
High Priest Hilkiah
Josiah ⓘ
surface form:
King Josiah
Shaphan the scribe ⓘ |
| category |
Josiah narrative characters
ⓘ
Prophets in the Tanakh ⓘ Women in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| consultedBy | royal delegation from Josiah ⓘ |
| declaredText | the Book of the Law was the word of the Lord ⓘ |
| function |
interpreter of the Book of the Law
ⓘ
mediator of divine revelation to the king ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| judgmentMessage | Jerusalem would become a desolation and a curse ⓘ |
| knownFor |
authenticating the Book of the Law
ⓘ
confirming coming disaster on Jerusalem ⓘ delivering God’s judgment on Judah ⓘ promising mercy to King Josiah ⓘ |
| languageContext | Hebrew ⓘ |
| livedIn | Second District of Jerusalem ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Shallum ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
2 Chronicles
ⓘ
surface form:
2 Chronicles 34
2 Kings 22 ⓘ |
| promiseMessage | Josiah would be gathered to his grave in peace ⓘ |
| reasonForJudgment |
Judah burned incense to other gods
ⓘ
Judah provoked the Lord to anger with idols ⓘ |
| religiousCanonStatus |
recognized figure in Christian tradition
ⓘ
recognized figure in Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| role | prophet ⓘ |
| scripturalContext | religious reforms of Josiah ⓘ |
| scripturalEvent |
consulted about the rediscovered Book of the Law
ⓘ
prophesied disaster because Judah forsook the Lord ⓘ prophesied that Josiah would die in peace ⓘ |
| scripturalGenreContext | Deuteronomistic history ⓘ |
| sourceText |
Masoretic Text
ⓘ
Septuagint ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | keeper of the wardrobe ⓘ |
| theologicalSignificance |
example of female prophetic authority
ⓘ
witness to covenant faithfulness and judgment ⓘ |
| timePeriod | reign of King Josiah ⓘ |
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: Huldah Description of subject: Huldah is a prophetess in the Hebrew Bible known for authenticating the rediscovered Book of the Law during King Josiah’s reign and delivering God’s judgment and promises to Judah.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.