Abimelech
E110803
Abimelech is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges known for violently seizing kingship over Shechem and meeting a dramatic death when a woman dropped a millstone on his head.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abimelech canonical | 6 |
| Abimelech king of Gerar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899331 — 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: Abimelech Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Abimelech]
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A.
Amnon
Amnon is a biblical figure known as the eldest son of King David, whose rape of his half-sister Tamar and subsequent murder by her brother Absalom sparked major turmoil in David’s household.
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B.
Jephta
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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C.
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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D.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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E.
Shamgar
Shamgar is a minor biblical judge and warrior mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for defeating a large number of Philistines with an oxgoad.
- 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: Abimelech Target entity description: Abimelech is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges known for violently seizing kingship over Shechem and meeting a dramatic death when a woman dropped a millstone on his head.
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A.
Amnon
Amnon is a biblical figure known as the eldest son of King David, whose rape of his half-sister Tamar and subsequent murder by her brother Absalom sparked major turmoil in David’s household.
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B.
Jephta
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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C.
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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D.
Othniel
Othniel is a biblical figure regarded as the first judge of Israel, known for delivering the Israelites from oppression in the Book of Judges.
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E.
Shamgar
Shamgar is a minor biblical judge and warrior mentioned in the Book of Judges, known for defeating a large number of Philistines with an oxgoad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| associatedWith |
Baal
ⓘ
surface form:
Baal-berith
|
| attacked |
Shechem
ⓘ
tower of Thebez ⓘ |
| besieged | Thebez ⓘ |
| brotherOf | Jotham ⓘ |
| burned | tower of Shechem ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | head crushed by an upper millstone ⓘ |
| conflictWith |
Shechem
ⓘ
surface form:
lords of Shechem
|
| destroyed | Shechem ⓘ |
| diedAt | Thebez ⓘ |
| divineJudgmentTheme |
God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech
ⓘ
God returned the evil of the men of Shechem upon their heads ⓘ |
| ethnicIdentity |
Israelites
ⓘ
surface form:
Israelite
|
| fundedBy | silver from the temple of Baal-berith ⓘ |
| judgedAs |
illegitimate king
ⓘ
usurper ⓘ |
| killed |
his seventy brothers
ⓘ
sons of Jerubbaal ⓘ |
| killedBy | his armor-bearer ⓘ |
| killedInTower | about a thousand men and women ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| madeKingBy | leaders of Shechem ⓘ |
| mortallyWoundedBy | a woman ⓘ |
| motherFrom | Shechem ⓘ |
| motherInstanceOf | concubine ⓘ |
| nameMeaning |
father of a king
ⓘ
my father is king ⓘ |
| narrativeSource |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Judges 9
|
| notCountedAmong | traditional judges of Israel ⓘ |
| opposedBy | Jotham’s fable from Mount Gerizim ⓘ |
| reasonForArmorBearerKilling | to avoid being said to have been killed by a woman ⓘ |
| reignCharacterizedAs |
tyrannical
ⓘ
violent ⓘ |
| reignedFor | three years ⓘ |
| requestedToBeKilledBy | his armor-bearer ⓘ |
| ruledFrom | Shechem ⓘ |
| seizedKingshipOver | Shechem ⓘ |
| sonOf |
Gideon
ⓘ
Jerubbaal ⓘ |
| spared | Jotham ⓘ |
| timePeriod | era of the judges of Israel ⓘ |
| tribalAssociation | Manasseh ⓘ |
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: Abimelech Description of subject: Abimelech is a biblical figure in the Book of Judges known for violently seizing kingship over Shechem and meeting a dramatic death when a woman dropped a millstone on his head.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book of Judges
this entity surface form:
Abimelech king of Gerar