Jokshan
E252907
Jokshan is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Abraham by his wife Keturah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jokshan canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2283629 — 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: Jokshan Context triple: [Midian, siblingOf, Jokshan]
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A.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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B.
Qudus
Qudus is an Arabic term meaning "The Most Holy," often used as one of the names or attributes of God in Islamic tradition.
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C.
Yonas
Yonas is a given name, often used as a variant of Jonas in various cultures.
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D.
Dhul-Qarnayn
Dhul-Qarnayn is a righteous and powerful figure mentioned in the Qur’an, often associated with a just ruler who traveled widely and built a barrier to contain Gog and Magog.
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E.
Ishkur
Ishkur is a Mesopotamian storm and rain god associated with thunder, fertility, and seasonal weather.
- 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: Jokshan Target entity description: Jokshan is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Abraham by his wife Keturah.
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A.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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B.
Qudus
Qudus is an Arabic term meaning "The Most Holy," often used as one of the names or attributes of God in Islamic tradition.
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C.
Yonas
Yonas is a given name, often used as a variant of Jonas in various cultures.
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D.
Dhul-Qarnayn
Dhul-Qarnayn is a righteous and powerful figure mentioned in the Qur’an, often associated with a just ruler who traveled widely and built a barrier to contain Gog and Magog.
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E.
Ishkur
Ishkur is a Mesopotamian storm and rain god associated with thunder, fertility, and seasonal weather.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ male ⓘ |
| appearsInChapter | Genesis 25 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Keturah’s descendants ⓘ |
| childOf |
Abraham
ⓘ
Keturah ⓘ |
| describedAs | son of Abraham by Keturah ⓘ |
| genealogicalRole |
ancestor of Dedan
ⓘ
ancestor of Sheba ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Dedan
ⓘ
Sheba ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Book of Genesis ⓘ |
| nameTransliteration | Yoqshan ⓘ |
| partOf | Abrahamic genealogies ⓘ |
| religiousTextContext |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalStatus | minor biblical character ⓘ |
| siblingOf |
Ishbak
ⓘ
Medan ⓘ Midian ⓘ Shuah ⓘ Zimran ⓘ |
| testament |
Bible
ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
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: Jokshan Description of subject: Jokshan is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Book of Genesis as one of the sons of Abraham by his wife Keturah.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
יִשְׁבָּק