sons of Heth
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The sons of Heth are a group of Hittite inhabitants of Canaan in the Hebrew Bible, known especially as the landowners from whom Abraham purchases a burial site for Sarah in Genesis 23.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| sons of Heth canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1205815 — 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: sons of Heth Context triple: [Genesis 23, mentions, sons of Heth]
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A.
Amorites
The Amorites were an ancient Semitic people prominent in the Near East during the early second millennium BCE, known for establishing powerful kingdoms such as Babylon and for their presence in regions including Canaan and Mesopotamia.
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B.
Amalekites
The Amalekites are a nomadic people in the Hebrew Bible known for their repeated conflicts with the Israelites and their role as a symbol of persistent enmity against Israel.
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C.
Imeretians
Imeretians are a regional subgroup of Georgians traditionally inhabiting the western Georgian region of Imereti, known for their distinct dialect, cultural traditions, and historical role within the Georgian kingdom.
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D.
Jebusites
The Jebusites were an ancient Canaanite people known primarily as the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Jerusalem (then called Jebus) in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Gurians
Gurians are a regional Georgian ethnic group from the historical province of Guria in western Georgia, known for their distinct dialect, folklore, and cultural traditions.
- 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: sons of Heth Target entity description: The sons of Heth are a group of Hittite inhabitants of Canaan in the Hebrew Bible, known especially as the landowners from whom Abraham purchases a burial site for Sarah in Genesis 23.
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A.
Amorites
The Amorites were an ancient Semitic people prominent in the Near East during the early second millennium BCE, known for establishing powerful kingdoms such as Babylon and for their presence in regions including Canaan and Mesopotamia.
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B.
Amalekites
The Amalekites are a nomadic people in the Hebrew Bible known for their repeated conflicts with the Israelites and their role as a symbol of persistent enmity against Israel.
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C.
Imeretians
Imeretians are a regional subgroup of Georgians traditionally inhabiting the western Georgian region of Imereti, known for their distinct dialect, cultural traditions, and historical role within the Georgian kingdom.
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D.
Jebusites
The Jebusites were an ancient Canaanite people known primarily as the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Jerusalem (then called Jebus) in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Gurians
Gurians are a regional Georgian ethnic group from the historical province of Guria in western Georgia, known for their distinct dialect, folklore, and cultural traditions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical people
ⓘ
group of people ⓘ |
| ancestor | Heth ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter |
Genesis 23
ⓘ
Genesis 25 ⓘ Genesis 49 ⓘ |
| associatedPlace |
Hebron
ⓘ
Mamre ⓘ Hebron Patriarchs’ Cave ⓘ
surface form:
cave of Machpelah
Genesis 23 ⓘ
surface form:
field of Ephron
|
| CanaanIs | son of Ham ⓘ |
| culturalContext | ancient Near East ⓘ |
| describedAs | people of the land ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Hittite Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Hittites
|
| genreOfSource | narrative ⓘ |
| HamIs | son of Noah ⓘ |
| HethIs | son of Canaan ⓘ |
| interactsWith |
Abraham
ⓘ
Sarah ⓘ |
| knownFor | selling a burial site to Abraham ⓘ |
| languageOfSource |
Hebrew
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Hebrew
|
| legalRole | witnesses to Abraham’s land purchase ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Canaan ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| narrativeEpisode | purchase of the cave of Machpelah ⓘ |
| religiousSignificance | establishing Abraham’s legal claim to burial land in Canaan ⓘ |
| religiousText |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | landowners in Canaan ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | minor biblical group ⓘ |
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: sons of Heth Description of subject: The sons of Heth are a group of Hittite inhabitants of Canaan in the Hebrew Bible, known especially as the landowners from whom Abraham purchases a burial site for Sarah in Genesis 23.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.