Eliphaz
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Eliphaz is a biblical figure known as the eldest son of Esau and a chief of the Edomites.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Eliphaz canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3294712 — 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: Eliphaz Context triple: [Esau, fatherOf, Eliphaz]
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A.
Elihu
Elihu is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "He is my God."
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B.
Bildad
Bildad is a stern, deeply religious Quaker and part-owner of the whaling ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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C.
Balaam
Balaam is a biblical figure depicted in the Old Testament as a non-Israelite diviner or prophet whose story involves attempts to curse Israel and a famous encounter with a talking donkey.
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D.
Obadiah
Obadiah is a short prophetic book of the Old Testament that delivers a judgment oracle against Edom and a vision of Israel’s restoration.
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E.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
- 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: Eliphaz Target entity description: Eliphaz is a biblical figure known as the eldest son of Esau and a chief of the Edomites.
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A.
Elihu
Elihu is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, traditionally interpreted to mean "He is my God."
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B.
Bildad
Bildad is a stern, deeply religious Quaker and part-owner of the whaling ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s novel "Moby-Dick."
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C.
Balaam
Balaam is a biblical figure depicted in the Old Testament as a non-Israelite diviner or prophet whose story involves attempts to curse Israel and a famous encounter with a talking donkey.
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D.
Obadiah
Obadiah is a short prophetic book of the Old Testament that delivers a judgment oracle against Edom and a vision of Israel’s restoration.
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E.
Shephatiah
Shephatiah is one of the sons of King David mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Eliphaz Description of subject: Eliphaz is a biblical figure known as the eldest son of Esau and a chief of the Edomites.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.