Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir)
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Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir) were a priestly family from ancient Israel, traditionally associated with one of the 24 priestly divisions serving in the Jerusalem Temple.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir) canonical | 1 |
| sons of Hezir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3039834 — 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: Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir) Context triple: [Tomb of Benei Hezir, namedAfter, Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir)]
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A.
sons of Heth
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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B.
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi is a landmark allegorical novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that reimagines religious and social history through the saga of a Cairo alley and its patriarchal founder.
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C.
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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D.
Beni-Amir
Beni-Amir is a subgroup of the Beja people, an Afro-Asiatic ethnic group traditionally inhabiting regions of northeastern Africa such as Sudan and Eritrea.
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E.
Geshem the Arab
Geshem the Arab was a regional leader and adversary of Nehemiah who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls in the 5th century BCE.
- 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: Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir) Target entity description: Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir) were a priestly family from ancient Israel, traditionally associated with one of the 24 priestly divisions serving in the Jerusalem Temple.
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A.
sons of Heth
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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B.
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi is a landmark allegorical novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that reimagines religious and social history through the saga of a Cairo alley and its patriarchal founder.
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C.
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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D.
Beni-Amir
Beni-Amir is a subgroup of the Beja people, an Afro-Asiatic ethnic group traditionally inhabiting regions of northeastern Africa such as Sudan and Eritrea.
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E.
Geshem the Arab
Geshem the Arab was a regional leader and adversary of Nehemiah who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls in the 5th century BCE.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Israelite family
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priestly family ⓘ |
| associatedRitual |
daily offerings
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festival sacrifices ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| category | Priestly divisions in Judaism ⓘ |
| country |
Ancient Israel
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surface form:
ancient Israel
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| describedIn |
Tanakh
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surface form:
Hebrew Bible
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| function |
conduct Temple worship
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perform sacrificial rites ⓘ |
| genealogicalOrigin | descendants of Hezir ⓘ |
| hasMember | Hezir ⓘ |
| heritage | Levitical ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaningOfName |
Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
sons of Hezir
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| mentionedIn | 1 Chronicles 24 ⓘ |
| office | priests ⓘ |
| partOf | 24 priestly divisions ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| role | Temple priests ⓘ |
| rotationSystem | served in turn among 24 courses ⓘ |
| sacredStatus | consecrated for Temple service ⓘ |
| scripturalTradition | Tanakh ⓘ |
| serviceLocation |
Jewish Temple
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surface form:
Jerusalem Temple
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| subgroupOf | Aaronic priesthood ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
First Temple period
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Second Temple Judaism ⓘ
surface form:
Second Temple period
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| tribe | Tribe of Levi ⓘ |
| worshipContext |
Second Temple Judaism
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surface form:
Temple Judaism
|
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: Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir) Description of subject: Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir) were a priestly family from ancient Israel, traditionally associated with one of the 24 priestly divisions serving in the Jerusalem Temple.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir)
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meaningOfName
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Benei Hezir (sons of Hezir)
self-linksurface differs
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subject surface form:
Benei Hezir
this entity surface form:
sons of Hezir