Abiathar
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Abiathar was a high priest of ancient Israel during King David’s reign who later fell out of favor for supporting Adonijah’s unsuccessful bid for the throne.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Abiathar canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6413909 — 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: Abiathar Context triple: [Adonijah, supportedBy, Abiathar]
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A.
Shaul
Shaul is the Hebrew form of the name Saul, most famously associated with the first king of ancient Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Azariah
Azariah is a biblical figure portrayed as one of the three youths delivered by God from the fiery furnace in the Book of Daniel and related deuterocanonical additions.
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C.
Cushan-Rishathaim
Cushan-Rishathaim is a foreign king mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges as an oppressor of Israel whom God delivered into the hands of the judge Othniel.
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D.
Jonadab
Jonadab is a shrewd but morally dubious cousin of Amnon in the biblical narrative, known for advising Amnon in his plot against Tamar and later revealing knowledge of Absalom’s revenge.
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E.
Ahithophel
Ahithophel is a biblical figure known as King David’s once-trusted counselor who later sided with Absalom during his rebellion.
- 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: Abiathar Target entity description: Abiathar was a high priest of ancient Israel during King David’s reign who later fell out of favor for supporting Adonijah’s unsuccessful bid for the throne.
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A.
Shaul
Shaul is the Hebrew form of the name Saul, most famously associated with the first king of ancient Israel in the Hebrew Bible.
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B.
Azariah
Azariah is a biblical figure portrayed as one of the three youths delivered by God from the fiery furnace in the Book of Daniel and related deuterocanonical additions.
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C.
Cushan-Rishathaim
Cushan-Rishathaim is a foreign king mentioned in the biblical Book of Judges as an oppressor of Israel whom God delivered into the hands of the judge Othniel.
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D.
Jonadab
Jonadab is a shrewd but morally dubious cousin of Amnon in the biblical narrative, known for advising Amnon in his plot against Tamar and later revealing knowledge of Absalom’s revenge.
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E.
Ahithophel
Ahithophel is a biblical figure known as King David’s once-trusted counselor who later sided with Absalom during his rebellion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew priest
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biblical person ⓘ high priest of ancient Israel ⓘ |
| biblicalBookMention |
First Book of Kings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
First Book of Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Book of Samuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| carried | ephod ⓘ |
| coHighPriestWith | Zadok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaryWith | Zadok NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Ahimelech son of Ahitub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fellOutOfFavorWith | King Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fledTo | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageContext | Biblical Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
later political alignment with Adonijah
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loyalty to David during Saul’s persecution ⓘ |
| opposedSuccessor | Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | High Priest of Israel ⓘ |
| reasonForRemoval | support for Adonijah’s claim to the throne ⓘ |
| religion | Ancient Israelite religion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| removedFromOfficeBy | King Solomon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scripturalTradition |
Hebrew Bible
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedAsPriestDuring | reign of King David ⓘ |
| servedAt |
David’s court
NERFINISHED
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Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder | King David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported | Adonijah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivedEvent | massacre at Nob by Saul ⓘ |
| tribe | Tribe of Levi 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: Abiathar Description of subject: Abiathar was a high priest of ancient Israel during King David’s reign who later fell out of favor for supporting Adonijah’s unsuccessful bid for the throne.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.