Jezebel
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Jezebel is a notorious Phoenician queen in the Hebrew Bible, remembered for promoting Baal worship in Israel and for her violent conflict with the prophet Elijah.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jezebel canonical | 6 |
| Queen Jezebel | 3 |
| Jezebel (biblical figure) | 1 |
| Jezebel’s mother is not specified in the Bible | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T917521 — 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: Jezebel Context triple: [Books of Kings, includesFigure, Jezebel]
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A.
Jezebel
Jezebel is a feminist-leaning online magazine and blog known for its sharp commentary on gender, culture, and media.
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B.
Delilah
Delilah is a biblical figure best known for betraying Samson by discovering and revealing the secret of his strength.
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C.
Maria Magdalena Keverich
Maria Magdalena Keverich was a German woman best known as the mother of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
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D.
Ofelia
Ofelia is the imaginative young girl in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," whose encounters with mythical creatures mirror the brutal realities of post–Civil War Spain.
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E.
Caterina
Caterina is an Italian given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly used for women in Italian-speaking and related 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: Jezebel Target entity description: Jezebel is a notorious Phoenician queen in the Hebrew Bible, remembered for promoting Baal worship in Israel and for her violent conflict with the prophet Elijah.
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A.
Jezebel
Jezebel is a feminist-leaning online magazine and blog known for its sharp commentary on gender, culture, and media.
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B.
Delilah
Delilah is a biblical figure best known for betraying Samson by discovering and revealing the secret of his strength.
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C.
Maria Magdalena Keverich
Maria Magdalena Keverich was a German woman best known as the mother of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven.
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D.
Ofelia
Ofelia is the imaginative young girl in Guillermo del Toro’s dark fantasy film "Pan’s Labyrinth," whose encounters with mythical creatures mirror the brutal realities of post–Civil War Spain.
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E.
Caterina
Caterina is an Italian given name, equivalent to Catherine, commonly used for women in Italian-speaking and related cultures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Phoenician
ⓘ
biblical figure ⓘ queen ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
prophets of Asherah
ⓘ
prophets of Baal ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent |
Seizure of Naboth’s vineyard
ⓘ
surface form:
Naboth's vineyard incident
|
| associatedWithPlace |
Jezreel Valley
ⓘ
surface form:
Jezreel
Sidon ⓘ |
| bodyAfterDeath | devoured by dogs ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
defenestration
ⓘ
trampled by horses ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Elijah
ⓘ
Elisha ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Phoenician civilization
ⓘ
surface form:
Phoenicia
|
| ethnicGroup |
Sidonians
ⓘ
surface form:
Sidonian
|
| father |
Baal
ⓘ
surface form:
Ethbaal
|
| genreContext | Deuteronomistic history ⓘ |
| influenced | Ahab's religious policies ⓘ |
| introduced | Baal prophets into Israel ⓘ |
| killedProphetsOf |
YHWH
ⓘ
surface form:
Yahweh
|
| legacy |
name used as a byword for a wicked woman
ⓘ
name used as a symbol of seduction and idolatry ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| moralEvaluationInText | negative ⓘ |
| narrativeOccursIn |
1 Kings
ⓘ
Book of 2 Kings ⓘ
surface form:
2 Kings
|
| opposedBy |
Jehoram of Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
Jehu
|
| orderedKillingOf | Naboth ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
enemy of Yahwism
ⓘ
idolater ⓘ wicked queen ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Queen of Israel ⓘ |
| promotedReligion |
Asherah worship
ⓘ
Baal worship ⓘ |
| prophecyFulfilled | dogs would eat Jezebel in Jezreel ⓘ |
| referencedIn | Book of Revelation ⓘ |
| religion | Baal worship ⓘ |
| roleInRevelation | symbolic figure representing false prophecy ⓘ |
| spouse | Ahab ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
false religion
ⓘ
moral corruption ⓘ political manipulation ⓘ |
| threatenedToKill | Elijah ⓘ |
| title |
Jezebel
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Queen Jezebel
|
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: Jezebel Description of subject: Jezebel is a notorious Phoenician queen in the Hebrew Bible, remembered for promoting Baal worship in Israel and for her violent conflict with the prophet Elijah.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Jezebel (biblical figure)
this entity surface form:
Queen Jezebel