the Benjaminite war
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The Benjaminite war was a brutal civil conflict in ancient Israel, recounted in the Book of Judges, in which the other Israelite tribes nearly annihilated the tribe of Benjamin after a horrific crime in Gibeah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| the Benjaminite war canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4761220 — 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: the Benjaminite war Context triple: [Levite of Ephraim, associatedWith, the Benjaminite war]
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War of the Brothers
War of the Brothers is a major internal conflict phase within the broader Lebanese Civil War, marked by intense factional fighting among rival Lebanese militias.
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B.
Guerra dels Segadors
Guerra dels Segadors was a 17th-century Catalan uprising against the Spanish monarchy that formed part of the wider Reapers' War over political autonomy and fiscal burdens.
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C.
Perusine War
The Perusine War was a brief but significant civil conflict in 41–40 BCE in which Octavian fought Lucius Antonius and Fulvia, helping to consolidate Octavian’s power in the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s assassination.
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D.
War of the Camps
The War of the Camps was a series of brutal mid-1980s sieges and battles in Lebanon in which the Amal Movement and its allies fought Palestinian factions for control of refugee camps during the Lebanese Civil War.
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E.
Morean War
The Morean War was a late 17th-century conflict in which the Republic of Venice, with allied support, fought the Ottoman Empire for control of the Peloponnese (Morea) during the wider Great Turkish War.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: the Benjaminite war Target entity description: The Benjaminite war was a brutal civil conflict in ancient Israel, recounted in the Book of Judges, in which the other Israelite tribes nearly annihilated the tribe of Benjamin after a horrific crime in Gibeah.
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A.
War of the Brothers
War of the Brothers is a major internal conflict phase within the broader Lebanese Civil War, marked by intense factional fighting among rival Lebanese militias.
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B.
Guerra dels Segadors
Guerra dels Segadors was a 17th-century Catalan uprising against the Spanish monarchy that formed part of the wider Reapers' War over political autonomy and fiscal burdens.
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C.
Perusine War
The Perusine War was a brief but significant civil conflict in 41–40 BCE in which Octavian fought Lucius Antonius and Fulvia, helping to consolidate Octavian’s power in the aftermath of Julius Caesar’s assassination.
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D.
War of the Camps
The War of the Camps was a series of brutal mid-1980s sieges and battles in Lebanon in which the Amal Movement and its allies fought Palestinian factions for control of refugee camps during the Lebanese Civil War.
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E.
Morean War
The Morean War was a late 17th-century conflict in which the Republic of Venice, with allied support, fought the Ottoman Empire for control of the Peloponnese (Morea) during the wider Great Turkish War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Israelite conflict
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biblical event ⓘ civil war ⓘ |
| describedIn |
Book of Judges
NERFINISHED
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Hebrew Bible NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCause |
crime at Gibeah
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rape and murder of a Levite’s concubine ⓘ |
| hasGenre | biblical narrative ⓘ |
| hasKeyFigure | the Levite whose concubine was abused ⓘ |
| hasKeyGroup |
assembly at Mizpah
ⓘ
elders of Israel ⓘ |
| hasKeyPlace |
Jabesh-gilead
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shiloh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLocation |
Bethel
NERFINISHED
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Gibeah NERFINISHED ⓘ Mizpah NERFINISHED ⓘ territory of Benjamin ⓘ |
| hasMainBelligerent |
tribe of Benjamin
ⓘ
tribes of Israel ⓘ |
| hasMoralInterpretation |
critique of tribal violence
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warning against moral anarchy ⓘ |
| hasOpposingSide |
confederation of the other eleven tribes of Israel
ⓘ
tribe of Benjamin ⓘ |
| hasOutcome |
inter-tribal reconciliation measures
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mass casualties among Israelites ⓘ near annihilation of the tribe of Benjamin ⓘ preservation of a remnant of Benjamin ⓘ |
| hasReligiousAspect |
consultation of Yahweh at Bethel
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offerings and sacrifices by Israelites ⓘ |
| hasResultingAction |
abduction of women from Shiloh as wives for Benjaminites
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massacre at Jabesh-gilead to obtain wives for Benjaminites ⓘ oath by Israelite tribes not to give daughters to Benjaminites ⓘ |
| hasSourceTextChapter |
Judges 19
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Judges 20 ⓘ Judges 21 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
collective punishment
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covenant loyalty and violation ⓘ inter-tribal justice ⓘ social chaos in Israel ⓘ |
| isNarrativelyLinkedTo | refrain in Judges: 'In those days there was no king in Israel' ⓘ |
| languageOfPrimarySource | Biblical Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | ancient Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition |
Christianity
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Judaism ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
period of the Judges
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pre-monarchic Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: the Benjaminite war Description of subject: The Benjaminite war was a brutal civil conflict in ancient Israel, recounted in the Book of Judges, in which the other Israelite tribes nearly annihilated the tribe of Benjamin after a horrific crime in Gibeah.
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