Puah
E332537
Puah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as part of the genealogy of the tribe of Issachar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Puah canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3142297 — 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: Puah Context triple: [Issachar, son, Puah]
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A.
Pawukon
Pawukon is a complex traditional Balinese calendrical system composed of multiple concurrent week cycles used to determine ritual, ceremonial, and agricultural timings.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Yakhin
Yakhin is a variant form of the biblical name Jachin, traditionally associated with one of the two pillars of Solomon’s Temple.
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D.
Pang
Pang is a variant transliteration of the Chinese surname commonly romanized as Peng.
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E.
Pucikwar
Pucikwar is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Pucikwar people of the Andaman Islands in India.
- 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: Puah Target entity description: Puah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as part of the genealogy of the tribe of Issachar.
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A.
Pawukon
Pawukon is a complex traditional Balinese calendrical system composed of multiple concurrent week cycles used to determine ritual, ceremonial, and agricultural timings.
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B.
Hamutal
Hamutal was a queen of Judah, known as the mother of the last king of Judah, Zedekiah, during the final years before the Babylonian exile.
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C.
Yakhin
Yakhin is a variant form of the biblical name Jachin, traditionally associated with one of the two pillars of Solomon’s Temple.
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D.
Pang
Pang is a variant transliteration of the Chinese surname commonly romanized as Peng.
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E.
Pucikwar
Pucikwar is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Pucikwar people of the Andaman Islands in India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
person in the Hebrew Bible ⓘ |
| appearsInGenealogy | genealogy of Issachar ⓘ |
| appearsInSection | biblical genealogies ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Ancient Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Israel
|
| describedAs | minor biblical figure ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalStatus | canonical biblical character ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant |
Puah son of Issachar
ⓘ
Puvah ⓘ |
| hasRole | ancestor of the tribe of Issachar ⓘ |
| hasTribalAffiliation | Issachar ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWith |
Tribes of Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
Israelite tribes
|
| isListedAs |
descendant of Israel
ⓘ
descendant of Jacob ⓘ |
| isNotableFor | being named in the genealogy of Issachar ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| partOf |
Tribe of Issachar
ⓘ
surface form:
tribe of Issachar
|
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
ⓘ
Judaism ⓘ |
| scripturalContext | patriarchal narratives ⓘ |
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: Puah Description of subject: Puah is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Old Testament as part of the genealogy of the tribe of Issachar.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.