Shimron
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Shimron is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the sons of Issachar and a progenitor of an Israelite clan.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shimron canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3142299 — 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: Shimron Context triple: [Issachar, son, Shimron]
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A.
Hashim
Hashim is the given name of Prince Hashim bin Hussein, a member of the Jordanian royal family.
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B.
Malan
Malan is a surname of Afrikaans and French Huguenot origin, notably borne by figures such as South African prime minister D. F. Malan.
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C.
Faheem Najm
Faheem Najm, better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer renowned for popularizing the creative use of Auto-Tune in contemporary hip hop and R&B music.
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D.
Shobab
Shobab is a lesser-known son of King David of Israel and Bathsheba, mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Dhananjaya
Dhananjaya is a celebrated epithet of the Pandava prince Arjuna, renowned in the Mahabharata for his unmatched archery skills and heroic valor.
- 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: Shimron Target entity description: Shimron is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the sons of Issachar and a progenitor of an Israelite clan.
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A.
Hashim
Hashim is the given name of Prince Hashim bin Hussein, a member of the Jordanian royal family.
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B.
Malan
Malan is a surname of Afrikaans and French Huguenot origin, notably borne by figures such as South African prime minister D. F. Malan.
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C.
Faheem Najm
Faheem Najm, better known by his stage name T-Pain, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer renowned for popularizing the creative use of Auto-Tune in contemporary hip hop and R&B music.
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D.
Shobab
Shobab is a lesser-known son of King David of Israel and Bathsheba, mentioned briefly in the Hebrew Bible.
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E.
Dhananjaya
Dhananjaya is a celebrated epithet of the Pandava prince Arjuna, renowned in the Mahabharata for his unmatched archery skills and heroic valor.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| appearsInSection |
Five Books of Moses
ⓘ
surface form:
Pentateuch
Torah ⓘ |
| associatedWithTribe | Israel ⓘ |
| canon |
Christian canon
ⓘ
Jewish canon ⓘ |
| childOf | Issachar ⓘ |
| clanProgenitorOf |
Jahzeelite clan
ⓘ
surface form:
Shimronite clan
|
| describedAs | son of Issachar ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Israelites
ⓘ
surface form:
Israelite
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasNameForm | Shimron self-link ⓘ |
| hasRole | progenitor of an Israelite clan ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Tanakh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
Tanakh ⓘ |
| relativeMentionedWith |
Jashub
ⓘ
Puvah ⓘ Tola ⓘ |
| religiousTextContext |
Book of Genesis
ⓘ
Book of Numbers ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| tribalAffiliation |
Tribe of Issachar
ⓘ
surface form:
tribe of Issachar
|
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: Shimron Description of subject: Shimron is a minor biblical figure mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as one of the sons of Issachar and a progenitor of an Israelite clan.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Issachar