Eleazar
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Eleazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally associated with religious and historical figures.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eleazar canonical | 10 |
| Elazar | 1 |
| Eleazar son of Abinadab | 1 |
| Eleazar son of Dodo | 1 |
| Eleázar | 1 |
| Eliezer | 1 |
| High Priest Eleazar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1710452 — 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: Eleazar Context triple: [Eleazar Mather, givenName, Eleazar]
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A.
Eleazar ben Ya'ir
Eleazar ben Ya'ir was a 1st-century Jewish Zealot leader best known for commanding the Sicarii rebels at Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
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B.
Eleazar the priest
Eleazar the priest is a biblical high priest of Israel, son of Aaron, who helped lead and oversee the distribution of the Promised Land after Joshua’s conquests.
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C.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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D.
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai was a prominent second-century Tannaic sage, renowned for his extensive halakhic teachings and frequent citation throughout the Mishnah and Talmud.
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E.
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon was a prominent 2nd-century Talmudic sage, the son and close scholarly partner of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, known for his legal acumen and contributions to rabbinic literature.
- 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: Eleazar Target entity description: Eleazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally associated with religious and historical figures.
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A.
Eleazar ben Ya'ir
Eleazar ben Ya'ir was a 1st-century Jewish Zealot leader best known for commanding the Sicarii rebels at Masada during the First Jewish–Roman War.
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B.
Eleazar the priest
Eleazar the priest is a biblical high priest of Israel, son of Aaron, who helped lead and oversee the distribution of the Promised Land after Joshua’s conquests.
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C.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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D.
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai was a prominent second-century Tannaic sage, renowned for his extensive halakhic teachings and frequent citation throughout the Mishnah and Talmud.
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E.
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon
Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon was a prominent 2nd-century Talmudic sage, the son and close scholarly partner of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, known for his legal acumen and contributions to rabbinic literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ masculine given name ⓘ |
| appearsInText |
Bible
ⓘ
surface form:
Christian Old Testament
Septuagint ⓘ Tanakh ⓘ Torah ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| category | theophoric name ⓘ |
| culturalUsage |
Christian communities
ⓘ
Jewish communities ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Elʿāzār ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
God
ⓘ
surface form:
El (God)
ezer (help) ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Eleazar Maccabeus
ⓘ
Eleazar ben Arach ⓘ Eleazar ben Azariah ⓘ Eleazar ben Pedat ⓘ Eleazar ben Shammua ⓘ Eleazar of Worms ⓘ Eleazar the priest ⓘ
surface form:
Eleazar son of Aaron
Eleazar self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Eleazar son of Abinadab
Eleazar self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Eleazar son of Dodo
Eleazar the priest ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Eleazar
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Eleázar
Eliezer ⓘ Lazar ⓘ Lazarus ⓘ Lázaro ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaning |
God has helped
ⓘ
God is help ⓘ |
| nameDayTradition | Christian name days ⓘ |
| nameType |
biblical name
ⓘ
religious name ⓘ |
| originPeriod | ancient Israelite period ⓘ |
| semanticField |
divine assistance
ⓘ
help ⓘ |
| shortForm |
Lazar
ⓘ
Lazarus ⓘ |
| usedInReligion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
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: Eleazar Description of subject: Eleazar is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally associated with religious and historical figures.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Elazar
this entity surface form:
Eleázar
this entity surface form:
Eleazar son of Dodo
this entity surface form:
Eleazar son of Abinadab
subject surface form:
Letter of Aristeas
this entity surface form:
High Priest Eleazar