Hayyim Vital
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Hayyim Vital was a prominent 16th-century Kabbalist, best known as the chief disciple and recorder of the teachings of Isaac Luria, which became foundational for later Jewish mysticism.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Chaim Vital | 16 |
| Rabbi Chaim Vital | 5 |
| Hayyim Vital canonical | 3 |
| Hayyim ben Joseph Vital | 1 |
| Ḥayyim Vital | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T888075 — 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: Hayyim Vital Context triple: [Gilgul, expoundedBy, Hayyim Vital]
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A.
Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
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B.
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz was a 16th-century Kabbalist and rabbi of Safed, best known as a leading mystic of the Golden Age of Jewish mysticism.
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C.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon was a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Zionist leader, and one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served as Israel’s first Minister of Religions.
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D.
Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi whose innovative teachings in Safed profoundly reshaped Kabbalistic thought and practice.
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E.
Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
- 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: Hayyim Vital Target entity description: Hayyim Vital was a prominent 16th-century Kabbalist, best known as the chief disciple and recorder of the teachings of Isaac Luria, which became foundational for later Jewish mysticism.
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A.
Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
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B.
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz was a 16th-century Kabbalist and rabbi of Safed, best known as a leading mystic of the Golden Age of Jewish mysticism.
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C.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon was a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Zionist leader, and one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served as Israel’s first Minister of Religions.
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D.
Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi whose innovative teachings in Safed profoundly reshaped Kabbalistic thought and practice.
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E.
Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century rabbi
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Jewish mystic ⓘ Kabbalist ⓘ author ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| alternateName |
Hayyim Vital
ⓘ
surface form:
Chaim Vital
Hayyim Vital ⓘ
surface form:
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
Hayyim Vital ⓘ
surface form:
Ḥayyim Vital
|
| birthDate | 1542 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Ottoman Empire
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Safed ⓘ |
| chiefDiscipleOf | Isaac Luria ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1620 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Damascus
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Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| discipleOf | Isaac Luria ⓘ |
| era |
16th century
ⓘ
early 17th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| father | Joseph Vital ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Jewish mysticism
ⓘ
Kabbalah ⓘ |
| influenced |
Hasidic thought
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Sephardic mystical traditions ⓘ later Kabbalists ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Isaac Luria
ⓘ
Moshe Cordovero ⓘ
surface form:
Moses Cordovero
|
| knownFor |
foundational influence on later Jewish mysticism
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recording the teachings of Isaac Luria ⓘ systematizing Lurianic Kabbalah ⓘ |
| language | Hebrew ⓘ |
| movement |
Safed Kabbalah
ⓘ
surface form:
Lurianic Kabbalah
|
| name | Hayyim Vital self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
Ottoman Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Ottoman
|
| notableWork |
Book of Visions
ⓘ
Eitz Chaim ⓘ Etz Chaim ⓘ Etz Chaim ⓘ
surface form:
Etz Ḥayim
Sefer HaHezyonot ⓘ Shaar HaGilgulim ⓘ Shaar HaKavanot ⓘ Shaar HaMitzvot ⓘ Shaar HaPesukim ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
kabbalist ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Damascus
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Egypt ⓘ Jerusalem ⓘ Safed ⓘ |
| studentOf | Isaac Luria ⓘ |
| teacher |
Isaac Luria
ⓘ
R. Moshe Alshich ⓘ
surface form:
Moses Alshech
Moshe Cordovero ⓘ
surface form:
Moses Cordovero
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Hayyim Vital Description of subject: Hayyim Vital was a prominent 16th-century Kabbalist, best known as the chief disciple and recorder of the teachings of Isaac Luria, which became foundational for later Jewish mysticism.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gilgul
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Rabbi Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Rabbi Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Rabbi Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Rabbi Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Rabbi Chaim Vital
subject surface form:
Isaac Luria
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
subject surface form:
Isaac Luria
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
subject surface form:
Isaac Luria
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Ḥayyim Vital
this entity surface form:
Hayyim ben Joseph Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital
subject surface form:
Moshe Alshich
this entity surface form:
Chaim Vital