Geshur
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Geshur was a small Aramean kingdom east of the Jordan River, known from the Hebrew Bible as the maternal homeland and refuge of King David’s son Absalom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Geshur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4852371 — 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: Geshur Context triple: [Absalom, exileLocation, Geshur]
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A.
Gilʿad
Gilʿad is a biblical region east of the Jordan River, traditionally associated with the ancient Israelite tribes and noted for its rugged terrain and balm-producing plants.
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B.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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C.
Gibeah
Gibeah was an ancient Israelite city in the territory of Benjamin, historically notable as the royal seat of King Saul.
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D.
Edom
Edom was an ancient kingdom in the southern Levant, traditionally associated with the descendants of Esau and located south of the Kingdom of Judah.
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E.
Kedesh
Kedesh was an ancient city in the territory of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali, known as a Levitical city of refuge 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: Geshur Target entity description: Geshur was a small Aramean kingdom east of the Jordan River, known from the Hebrew Bible as the maternal homeland and refuge of King David’s son Absalom.
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A.
Gilʿad
Gilʿad is a biblical region east of the Jordan River, traditionally associated with the ancient Israelite tribes and noted for its rugged terrain and balm-producing plants.
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B.
Riblah
Riblah was an ancient town in Syria that served as a strategic military and administrative headquarters, notably used by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar during the final conquest of Judah.
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C.
Gibeah
Gibeah was an ancient Israelite city in the territory of Benjamin, historically notable as the royal seat of King Saul.
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D.
Edom
Edom was an ancient kingdom in the southern Levant, traditionally associated with the descendants of Esau and located south of the Kingdom of Judah.
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E.
Kedesh
Kedesh was an ancient city in the territory of the Israelite tribe of Naphtali, known as a Levitical city of refuge in the Hebrew Bible.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Aramean kingdom
ⓘ
ancient kingdom ⓘ biblical person ⓘ biblical person ⓘ biblical place ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Absalom’s exile
ⓘ
Davidic family politics ⓘ |
| biblicalReference |
2 Samuel 13:37–38
ⓘ
2 Samuel 14:23 ⓘ 2 Samuel 3:3 ⓘ Deuteronomy 3:14 NERFINISHED ⓘ Joshua 12:5 ⓘ Joshua 13:11 ⓘ Joshua 13:13 ⓘ |
| bordered |
Argob
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bashan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| childOf | Talmai king of Geshur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs | small kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicCharacter | Aramean ⓘ |
| hasRoyalConnectionTo | House of David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRuler | Talmai king of Geshur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Aramaic ⓘ |
| locatedEastOf | Jordan River NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Transjordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalHomelandOf | Absalom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
2 Samuel
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Joshua NERFINISHED ⓘ Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| motherOf |
Absalom
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tamar (daughter of David) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notConqueredBy | Israelites under Joshua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | ancient Levant ⓘ |
| politicalRelationWith | Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refugeOf | Absalom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Golan area
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousContext | ancient Near Eastern religion ⓘ |
| ruled | Geshur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceType | biblical narrative ⓘ |
| spouseOf | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Iron Age Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | king of Geshur ⓘ |
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: Geshur Description of subject: Geshur was a small Aramean kingdom east of the Jordan River, known from the Hebrew Bible as the maternal homeland and refuge of King David’s son Absalom.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.