Sholem Secunda
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Sholem Secunda was a prominent 20th-century American composer of Yiddish theater and popular music, best known for writing the song "Bay mir bistu sheyn."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sholem | 2 |
| Sholem Secunda canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3017657 — 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.
Target entity: Sholem Secunda Context triple: [Westchester Hills Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Sholem Secunda]
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A.
Sholem Rabinovich
Sholem Rabinovich, better known by his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a seminal Yiddish author and playwright whose works, including the stories that inspired "Fiddler on the Roof," vividly depicted Eastern European Jewish life.
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B.
Eliezer Levi Samenhof
Eliezer Levi Samenhof, better known as L. L. Zamenhof, was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and linguist who created the international auxiliary language Esperanto.
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C.
Zerach Warhaftig
Zerach Warhaftig was an Israeli religious Zionist politician, jurist, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served for many years as a Knesset member and government minister.
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D.
Peretz Rosenbaum
Peretz Rosenbaum, better known as Paul Rand, was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for his influential corporate logo designs for companies such as IBM, ABC, and UPS.
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E.
J. Sholom Ehrlich
J. Sholom Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized as a significant bearer of the Ehrlich surname, likely distinguished in religious, scholarly, or communal contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sholem Secunda Target entity description: Sholem Secunda was a prominent 20th-century American composer of Yiddish theater and popular music, best known for writing the song "Bay mir bistu sheyn."
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A.
Sholem Rabinovich
Sholem Rabinovich, better known by his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a seminal Yiddish author and playwright whose works, including the stories that inspired "Fiddler on the Roof," vividly depicted Eastern European Jewish life.
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B.
Eliezer Levi Samenhof
Eliezer Levi Samenhof, better known as L. L. Zamenhof, was a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist and linguist who created the international auxiliary language Esperanto.
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C.
Zerach Warhaftig
Zerach Warhaftig was an Israeli religious Zionist politician, jurist, and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served for many years as a Knesset member and government minister.
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D.
Peretz Rosenbaum
Peretz Rosenbaum, better known as Paul Rand, was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for his influential corporate logo designs for companies such as IBM, ABC, and UPS.
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E.
J. Sholom Ehrlich
J. Sholom Ehrlich is a notable individual recognized as a significant bearer of the Ehrlich surname, likely distinguished in religious, scholarly, or communal contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American composer
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Yiddish theatre composer ⓘ composer ⓘ person ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1970s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1910s ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American Jewish music
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Yiddish theatre on New York's Second Avenue ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1894-09-04 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Elisavetgrad, Russian Empire
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surface form:
Aleksandriya, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Oleksandriia ⓘ
surface form:
Oleksandriia, Ukraine
|
| composedFor |
Yiddish theater
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surface form:
Yiddish theatre
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1974-06-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
New York City, New York, United States of America
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| employer |
Yiddish Art Theatre
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surface form:
Second Avenue Yiddish theatres
Yiddish Art Theatre ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Secunda ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Yiddish theater
ⓘ
surface form:
Yiddish theatre
music ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
Jewish music
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Yiddish theatre music ⓘ popular music ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sholem Secunda
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Sholem
|
| hasWorkInLanguage |
English
ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| movedTo | United States of America ⓘ |
| name | Sholem Secunda self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | composing the song "Bay mir bistu sheyn" ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bay mir bistu sheyn
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Bei Mir Bist Du Schön ⓘ
surface form:
Bei Mir Bistu Shein
Dos kelbl ⓘ |
| occupation |
cantor
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composer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| wrote |
Bay mir bistu sheyn
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Dos kelbl ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Sholem Secunda Description of subject: Sholem Secunda was a prominent 20th-century American composer of Yiddish theater and popular music, best known for writing the song "Bay mir bistu sheyn."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.