Manoah
E466911
Manoah is a biblical figure from the Book of Judges, known as the father of Samson and the husband of the woman visited by an angel announcing Samson’s birth.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Manoah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4761158 — 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: Manoah Context triple: [Samson, father, Manoah]
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A.
Shem
Shem is a biblical figure regarded as one of Noah’s sons and traditionally considered an ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Bethuel
Bethuel is a biblical figure from the Book of Genesis, known as the father of Laban and Rebekah and a descendant of Abraham’s family line.
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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: Manoah Target entity description: Manoah is a biblical figure from the Book of Judges, known as the father of Samson and the husband of the woman visited by an angel announcing Samson’s birth.
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A.
Shem
Shem is a biblical figure regarded as one of Noah’s sons and traditionally considered an ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
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B.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Bethuel
Bethuel is a biblical figure from the Book of Genesis, known as the father of Laban and Rebekah and a descendant of Abraham’s family line.
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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 (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
character in the Book of Judges ⓘ human ⓘ |
| askedFor | name of the angel ⓘ |
| askedQuestionTo | angel of the LORD ⓘ |
| believed | that he and his wife would die for having seen God ⓘ |
| child | Samson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | ancient Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Book of Judges
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Israelites NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expressedEmotion | fear after angel ascended in the flame ⓘ |
| father | Manoah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRole | father of Samson ⓘ |
| hasVisionOf | angel of the LORD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Judges 13:11
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Judges 13:12 ⓘ Judges 13:13 ⓘ Judges 13:15 ⓘ Judges 13:16 ⓘ Judges 13:17 ⓘ Judges 13:19 ⓘ Judges 13:2 ⓘ Judges 13:20 ⓘ Judges 13:21 ⓘ Judges 13:22 ⓘ Judges 13:23 ⓘ Judges 13:8 ⓘ Judges 13:9 ⓘ Judges 16:31 ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | rest ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation |
Judges 13
NERFINISHED
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Judges 16:31 ⓘ |
| offered |
goat as burnt offering
ⓘ
grain offering ⓘ |
| offeredSacrificeTo | the LORD NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reassured | Manoah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| residence | Zorah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | wife of Manoah ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Dan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
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Islamic tradition (as father of Samson) ⓘ Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| witnessed | appearance of the angel of the LORD ⓘ |
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: Manoah Description of subject: Manoah is a biblical figure from the Book of Judges, known as the father of Samson and the husband of the woman visited by an angel announcing Samson’s birth.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.