Kaplan
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Kaplan is a surname most notably associated with Mordecai Kaplan, an influential 20th-century rabbi and theologian who founded Reconstructionist Judaism.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaplan canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1891196 — 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: Kaplan Context triple: [Mordecai Kaplan, familyName, Kaplan]
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A.
Omni-Path
Omni-Path is a high-performance computing interconnect technology developed by Intel as an alternative to InfiniBand for low-latency, high-bandwidth data transfer in supercomputing and data center environments.
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B.
Keller Graduate School of Management
Keller Graduate School of Management is a private graduate business school in the United States offering MBA and other professional master's degree programs, primarily through flexible online and evening formats.
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C.
Pearson
Pearson is a major British multinational publishing and education company known for its textbooks, assessments, and digital learning solutions worldwide.
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D.
Becker Professional Education
Becker Professional Education is a leading provider of professional exam preparation and continuing education programs, best known for its CPA exam review courses.
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E.
Canada College
Canada College is a community college serving students in the San Francisco Bay Area with a range of academic, career, and transfer programs.
- 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: Kaplan Target entity description: Kaplan is a surname most notably associated with Mordecai Kaplan, an influential 20th-century rabbi and theologian who founded Reconstructionist Judaism.
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A.
Omni-Path
Omni-Path is a high-performance computing interconnect technology developed by Intel as an alternative to InfiniBand for low-latency, high-bandwidth data transfer in supercomputing and data center environments.
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B.
Keller Graduate School of Management
Keller Graduate School of Management is a private graduate business school in the United States offering MBA and other professional master's degree programs, primarily through flexible online and evening formats.
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C.
Pearson
Pearson is a major British multinational publishing and education company known for its textbooks, assessments, and digital learning solutions worldwide.
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D.
Becker Professional Education
Becker Professional Education is a leading provider of professional exam preparation and continuing education programs, best known for its CPA exam review courses.
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E.
Canada College
Canada College is a community college serving students in the San Francisco Bay Area with a range of academic, career, and transfer programs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithMovement | Reconstructionist Judaism ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
German word "Kaplan" meaning "chaplain"
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Yiddish occupational term for "chaplain" or "clergyman" ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | unisex surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Jewish surname
ⓘ
occupational surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Mordecai Kaplan
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Mordecai Kaplan ⓘ
surface form:
Mordecai Menahem Kaplan
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| hasNotableBearerCentury | 20th century ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerOccupation |
rabbi
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theologian ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerRole | founder of Reconstructionist Judaism ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Caplan
ⓘ
Kapllan ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Turkish ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| nameType | family name passed through generations ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedByEthnicGroup | Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Canada
ⓘ
Israel ⓘ Russia ⓘ Turkey ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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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: Kaplan Description of subject: Kaplan is a surname most notably associated with Mordecai Kaplan, an influential 20th-century rabbi and theologian who founded Reconstructionist Judaism.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.