Shobab
E174162
Shobab is a lesser-known son of King David of Israel and Bathsheba, mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1513540 — 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: Shobab Context triple: [Bathsheba, motherOf, Shobab]
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A.
Sohrab
Sohrab is a tragic hero in the Persian epic Shahnameh, famed as the valiant but ill-fated son of the champion Rostam.
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B.
Khaldoon
Khaldoon is an Arabic masculine given name commonly used in the Middle East.
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C.
Sahnun
Sahnun was a prominent 9th-century Islamic jurist from North Africa whose compilation of legal opinions, the Mudawwana, became a foundational text of the Maliki school of Sunni jurisprudence.
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D.
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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E.
Mirza
Mirza is a historical noble title of Persian and Central Asian origin, commonly borne by princes and high-ranking members of royal and aristocratic families.
- 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: Shobab Target entity description: Shobab is a lesser-known son of King David of Israel and Bathsheba, mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible.
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A.
Sohrab
Sohrab is a tragic hero in the Persian epic Shahnameh, famed as the valiant but ill-fated son of the champion Rostam.
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B.
Khaldoon
Khaldoon is an Arabic masculine given name commonly used in the Middle East.
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C.
Sahnun
Sahnun was a prominent 9th-century Islamic jurist from North Africa whose compilation of legal opinions, the Mudawwana, became a foundational text of the Maliki school of Sunni jurisprudence.
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D.
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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E.
Mirza
Mirza is a historical noble title of Persian and Central Asian origin, commonly borne by princes and high-ranking members of royal and aristocratic families.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ son of King David ⓘ |
| associatedWith | House of David ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus | minor biblical character ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Israelites ⓘ |
| father | David ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageContext |
Hebrew
ⓘ
surface form:
Biblical Hebrew
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| mentionedIn |
1 Chronicles 14:4
ⓘ
1 Chronicles 3:5 ⓘ 2 Samuel 5:14 ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
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| mother | Bathsheba ⓘ |
| notableFor | being one of the sons of David born in Jerusalem ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| sibling |
Eliada
ⓘ
Eliphelet ⓘ Elishama ⓘ Elishua ⓘ Ishbak ⓘ
surface form:
Ibhar
Japhia ⓘ Nathan ⓘ Nepheg ⓘ Shammua ⓘ Shammua (son of David) ⓘ Shimea ⓘ Shua ⓘ King Solomon ⓘ
surface form:
Solomon
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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: Shobab Description of subject: Shobab is a lesser-known son of King David of Israel and Bathsheba, mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.