Tola
E128988
Tola is a minor judge of Israel mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges, known for leading and delivering Israel for 23 years after the time of Abimelech.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tola canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T899332 — 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: Tola Context triple: [Book of Judges, featuresCharacter, Tola]
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A.
Tontola
Tontola is a small locality or hamlet that forms part of the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
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B.
Olosega
Olosega is a small volcanic island in the Manuʻa group of American Samoa, known for its dramatic cliffs, lush vegetation, and connection by bridge to the neighboring island of Ofu.
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C.
Ndowe
Ndowe is a Bantu language spoken by the Ndowe people along the coastal region of Equatorial Guinea.
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D.
Nembe
Nembe is an Ijaw subgroup and town in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, known historically as a coastal trading center in the Niger Delta.
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E.
Senaki
Senaki is a town in western Georgia that serves as an important local administrative and transportation center in the Samegrelo region.
- 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: Tola Target entity description: Tola is a minor judge of Israel mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges, known for leading and delivering Israel for 23 years after the time of Abimelech.
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A.
Tontola
Tontola is a small locality or hamlet that forms part of the municipality of Predappio in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
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B.
Olosega
Olosega is a small volcanic island in the Manuʻa group of American Samoa, known for its dramatic cliffs, lush vegetation, and connection by bridge to the neighboring island of Ofu.
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C.
Ndowe
Ndowe is a Bantu language spoken by the Ndowe people along the coastal region of Equatorial Guinea.
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D.
Nembe
Nembe is an Ijaw subgroup and town in Bayelsa State, Nigeria, known historically as a coastal trading center in the Niger Delta.
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E.
Senaki
Senaki is a town in western Georgia that serves as an important local administrative and transportation center in the Samegrelo region.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
judge of Israel ⓘ minor judge of Israel ⓘ |
| associatedRegion |
Mount Ephraim
ⓘ
surface form:
Ephraim hill country
|
| associatedTribalRegion | Issachar ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Adi Shamir
ⓘ
surface form:
Shamir
|
| category |
Book of Judges people
ⓘ
Judges of Israel ⓘ |
| etymologyPossibleMeaning |
crimson dye
ⓘ
worm ⓘ |
| father | Puah ⓘ |
| grandfather |
dodo (extinct)
ⓘ
surface form:
Dodo
|
| judgedIsraelFor | 23 years ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Book of Judges
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| nameInHebrew | תּוֹלָע ⓘ |
| predecessor | Abimelech ⓘ |
| reignedFor | 23 years ⓘ |
| religiousTextContext | Deuteronomistic history ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim ⓘ |
| role |
deliverer of Israel
ⓘ
judge of Israel ⓘ leader of Israel ⓘ |
| scripturalChapter |
Judges
ⓘ
surface form:
Judges 10
|
| scripturalVerses | Judges 10:1–2 ⓘ |
| sourceType | religious scripture ⓘ |
| succeeded | Abimelech ⓘ |
| successor | Jair ⓘ |
| timePeriodAfter | Abimelech ⓘ |
| traditionListsAsJudge |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| tribe | tribe of Issachar ⓘ |
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: Tola Description of subject: Tola is a minor judge of Israel mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges, known for leading and delivering Israel for 23 years after the time of Abimelech.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Book of Judges
subject surface form:
Issachar