Manoa
E518675
Manoa is a character in John Milton’s dramatic poem "Samson Agonistes," depicted as Samson’s compassionate and devout father who struggles to reconcile his son’s downfall with his faith in God.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Manoa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5424020 — 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: Manoa Context triple: [Samson Agonistes, character, Manoa]
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A.
Nuʻuuli
Nuʻuuli is a village and commercial center on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa.
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B.
Kanaloa
Kanaloa is a prominent Hawaiian god often associated with the ocean, the underworld, and complementary balance to the sky god Kāne.
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C.
Koa
Koa is a lightweight, modern Node.js web framework designed by the creators of Express to provide a more expressive and robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
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D.
Tiaina
Tiaina is the Samoan given name of the late NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau.
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E.
Nuʻutele
Nuʻutele is a small, uninhabited volcanic islet in American Samoa known for its steep cliffs, seabird colonies, and protected natural environment.
- 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: Manoa Target entity description: Manoa is a character in John Milton’s dramatic poem "Samson Agonistes," depicted as Samson’s compassionate and devout father who struggles to reconcile his son’s downfall with his faith in God.
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A.
Nuʻuuli
Nuʻuuli is a village and commercial center on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa.
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B.
Kanaloa
Kanaloa is a prominent Hawaiian god often associated with the ocean, the underworld, and complementary balance to the sky god Kāne.
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C.
Koa
Koa is a lightweight, modern Node.js web framework designed by the creators of Express to provide a more expressive and robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
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D.
Tiaina
Tiaina is the Samoan given name of the late NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Junior Seau.
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E.
Nuʻutele
Nuʻutele is a small, uninhabited volcanic islet in American Samoa known for its steep cliffs, seabird colonies, and protected natural environment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatic character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Samson Agonistes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appearsInForm | closet drama ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | dramatic poem ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInSectionOfWork | early scenes of Samson Agonistes ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | English poet John Milton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithText | Book of Judges narrative of Samson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
divine justice
ⓘ
filial duty ⓘ |
| basedOn | Manoah from the biblical Book of Judges ⓘ |
| concernedWith |
Samson’s blindness
ⓘ
Samson’s captivity ⓘ |
| createdBy | John Milton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| expressesEmotion |
hope for Samson’s redemption
ⓘ
sorrow over Samson’s suffering ⓘ |
| familyRelation | father ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Samson Agonistes (1671) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasDialogueWith |
Chorus
ⓘ
Samson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFaithIn | God NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNameVariant | Manoah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Israelite monotheism ⓘ |
| hasRole | father of Samson ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
compassionate
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devout ⓘ pious ⓘ |
| hopesFor | God’s mercy on Samson ⓘ |
| literaryFunction |
foil to Samson’s despair
ⓘ
voice of conventional piety ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 17th-century English literature ⓘ |
| medium | literature ⓘ |
| moralStance | submits to God’s will ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Israelite ⓘ |
| questions | reasons for Samson’s suffering ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Samson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representsTheme |
faith under trial
ⓘ
parental compassion ⓘ struggle to understand divine providence ⓘ |
| seeks |
to comfort Samson
ⓘ
to secure Samson’s release ⓘ |
| setInContext | ancient Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| strugglesWith | reconciling Samson’s downfall with faith in God ⓘ |
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: Manoa Description of subject: Manoa is a character in John Milton’s dramatic poem "Samson Agonistes," depicted as Samson’s compassionate and devout father who struggles to reconcile his son’s downfall with his faith in God.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.