Azariah
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Azariah is a biblical figure portrayed as one of the three youths delivered by God from the fiery furnace in the Book of Daniel and related deuterocanonical additions.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4760097 — 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: Azariah Context triple: [Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Holy Children, featuresCharacter, Azariah]
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A.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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B.
Yehoyaqim
Yehoyaqim is a king of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known for his reign during the late 7th to early 6th century BCE amid rising Babylonian power.
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C.
Mattaniah
Mattaniah is the birth name of the last king of Judah, later renamed Zedekiah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
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D.
Abijah
Abijah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, known for his brief reign following his father Rehoboam and his conflicts with the northern kingdom of Israel.
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E.
Hilkiah
Hilkiah is a biblical figure known as the father of the prophet Jeremiah and, in some traditions, identified with the high priest who discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple.
- 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: Azariah Target entity description: Azariah is a biblical figure portrayed as one of the three youths delivered by God from the fiery furnace in the Book of Daniel and related deuterocanonical additions.
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A.
Hoshea
Hoshea was the last king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, whose reign ended with the Assyrian conquest and the kingdom’s destruction in the 8th century BCE.
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B.
Yehoyaqim
Yehoyaqim is a king of Judah mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, known for his reign during the late 7th to early 6th century BCE amid rising Babylonian power.
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C.
Mattaniah
Mattaniah is the birth name of the last king of Judah, later renamed Zedekiah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar.
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D.
Abijah
Abijah was a king of Judah in the Hebrew Bible, known for his brief reign following his father Rehoboam and his conflicts with the northern kingdom of Israel.
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E.
Hilkiah
Hilkiah is a biblical figure known as the father of the prophet Jeremiah and, in some traditions, identified with the high priest who discovered the Book of the Law in the Temple.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew given name
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biblical figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Additions to Daniel
NERFINISHED
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Book of Daniel NERFINISHED ⓘ Prayer of Azariah NERFINISHED ⓘ Song of the Three Youths NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
faithfulness to God
ⓘ
martyrdom traditions ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | deliverance from the fiery furnace ⓘ |
| canonicalStatus |
central figure in deuterocanonical additions to Daniel
ⓘ
figure in the Hebrew/Aramaic text of Daniel ⓘ |
| companionOf |
Hananiah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mishael NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning | Yahweh has helped ⓘ |
| HebrewNameForm | עֲזַרְיָה NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honoredIn |
Christian tradition
ⓘ
Jewish tradition ⓘ |
| knownByName |
Abednego
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Azarias NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| literaryRole | model of steadfast faith under persecution ⓘ |
| origin | Judah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | one of the three youths in the fiery furnace ⓘ |
| praysIn | Prayer of Azariah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refusedTo | worship the golden image ⓘ |
| savedBy |
God
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
angel of the Lord ⓘ |
| servedUnder | King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| takenAs | exile to Babylon ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Azariah Description of subject: Azariah is a biblical figure portrayed as one of the three youths delivered by God from the fiery furnace in the Book of Daniel and related deuterocanonical additions.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hananiah
this entity surface form:
Hananiah