Tola son of Puah
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Tola son of Puah was an early Israelite judge and leader who arose to deliver and govern Israel, associated specifically with the tribe of Issachar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tola son of Puah canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6885058 — 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: Tola son of Puah Context triple: [Tribe of Issachar, judgeFromTribe, Tola son of Puah]
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A.
Sheba son of Bichri
Sheba son of Bichri is a biblical figure who led a revolt against King David of Israel, briefly threatening the unity of the kingdom.
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B.
Tanchuma
Tanchuma is a classical rabbinic midrashic collection, primarily on the Torah, known for its homiletic teachings and ethical interpretations.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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E.
Shem
Shem is a biblical figure regarded as one of Noah’s sons and traditionally considered an ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
- 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: Tola son of Puah Target entity description: Tola son of Puah was an early Israelite judge and leader who arose to deliver and govern Israel, associated specifically with the tribe of Issachar.
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A.
Sheba son of Bichri
Sheba son of Bichri is a biblical figure who led a revolt against King David of Israel, briefly threatening the unity of the kingdom.
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B.
Tanchuma
Tanchuma is a classical rabbinic midrashic collection, primarily on the Torah, known for its homiletic teachings and ethical interpretations.
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C.
Reuel
Reuel is a biblical figure identified as another name for Jethro, the Midianite priest and father-in-law of Moses.
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D.
Reuel
Reuel is the middle name of famed English author and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien, used as part of his full name John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
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E.
Shem
Shem is a biblical figure regarded as one of Noah’s sons and traditionally considered an ancestor of the Semitic peoples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
biblical figure
ⓘ
judge of Israel ⓘ leader of Israel ⓘ member of the tribe of Issachar ⓘ |
| biblicalBookChapter | Judges 10 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| biblicalPassage | Judges 10:1–2 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Shamir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Israelite NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Puah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
deliver Israel from trouble
ⓘ
maintain justice in Israel ⓘ |
| governedDuration | 23 years ⓘ |
| governedEntity | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Dodo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageContext | Biblical Hebrew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Book of Judges
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tanakh ⓘ
surface form:
Hebrew Bible
Bible ⓘ
surface form:
Old Testament
|
| name | Tola NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessorAsJudge | Abimelech NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | ancient Canaan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousContext | ancient Israelite religion ⓘ |
| residence | Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role |
deliverer of Israel
ⓘ
judge of Israel ⓘ |
| scripturalTradition |
Christianity
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sourceType | religious text ⓘ |
| timePeriod | period of the Judges ⓘ |
| tribe | Issachar 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: Tola son of Puah Description of subject: Tola son of Puah was an early Israelite judge and leader who arose to deliver and govern Israel, associated specifically with the tribe of Issachar.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.