Esh-baal
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Esh-baal is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled as king over Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Esh-baal canonical | 1 |
| Merib-baal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4852486 — 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: Esh-baal Context triple: [Ish-bosheth, alsoKnownAs, Esh-baal]
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A.
Eshmun
Eshmun is a Phoenician god primarily associated with healing and medicine, often linked to later Greco-Roman healing deities.
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B.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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D.
Shapash
Shapash is the Phoenician sun goddess, often depicted as a powerful celestial deity associated with light, justice, and guidance among the gods and humans.
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E.
Ammit
Ammit is a fearsome ancient Egyptian demoness with the head of a crocodile, forequarters of a lion, and hindquarters of a hippopotamus, who devoured the hearts of the unworthy in the afterlife.
- 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: Esh-baal Target entity description: Esh-baal is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled as king over Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
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A.
Eshmun
Eshmun is a Phoenician god primarily associated with healing and medicine, often linked to later Greco-Roman healing deities.
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B.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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D.
Shapash
Shapash is the Phoenician sun goddess, often depicted as a powerful celestial deity associated with light, justice, and guidance among the gods and humans.
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E.
Ammit
Ammit is a fearsome ancient Egyptian demoness with the head of a crocodile, forequarters of a lion, and hindquarters of a hippopotamus, who devoured the hearts of the unworthy in the afterlife.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ancient Israelite person
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biblical figure ⓘ king of Israel (northern tribes) ⓘ |
| approximateCenturyBC | 11th–10th century BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWithDeityName | Baal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| bodyPartPresentedTo | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | dynastic struggle between House of Saul and House of David ⓘ |
| deathCause | assassination ⓘ |
| era | early monarchy in ancient Israel ⓘ |
| excludedTerritory | Tribe of Judah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Saul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Ashbaal
NERFINISHED
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Ish-bosheth NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishbaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Ishbosheth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy |
Baanah
NERFINISHED
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Rechab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| kingdom | Kingdom of Israel (northern tribes) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfHouse | House of Saul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedInBook |
1 Chronicles
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2 Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameFormUsedIn |
Masoretic Text
NERFINISHED
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Septuagint (as Ishbosheth) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | man of Baal ⓘ |
| opposedBy | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | king over Israel (excluding Judah) ⓘ |
| predecessor | Saul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignLocation | Mahanaim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignSupportedBy | Abner son of Ner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTextMention |
Hebrew Bible
NERFINISHED
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Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Judaism ⓘ |
| successor | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Benjamin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Esh-baal Description of subject: Esh-baal is a biblical figure, a son of King Saul who briefly ruled as king over Israel in opposition to David after Saul’s death.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Merib-baal