Feldman
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Feldman is a surname of Germanic and Ashkenazi Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as music, academia, and the arts.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4287938 — 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: Feldman Context triple: [Jerry Fielding, familyName, Feldman]
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A.
Furthman
Furthman is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter Jules Furthman, known for his work on classic Hollywood films.
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B.
Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld is a notable architectural work designed by 19th-century American architect Alexander Jackson Davis.
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C.
Finkelstein
Finkelstein is a Jewish surname of German and Yiddish origin, commonly associated with families of Central and Eastern European descent.
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D.
Page Feldman
Page Feldman is a television producer best known for her executive production work on the reality competition series "The Apprentice."
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E.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
- 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: Feldman Target entity description: Feldman is a surname of Germanic and Ashkenazi Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as music, academia, and the arts.
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A.
Furthman
Furthman is a surname most notably associated with American screenwriter Jules Furthman, known for his work on classic Hollywood films.
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B.
Rosenfeld
Rosenfeld is a notable architectural work designed by 19th-century American architect Alexander Jackson Davis.
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C.
Finkelstein
Finkelstein is a Jewish surname of German and Yiddish origin, commonly associated with families of Central and Eastern European descent.
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D.
Page Feldman
Page Feldman is a television producer best known for her executive production work on the reality competition series "The Apprentice."
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E.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
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surname ⓘ |
| borneByNotablePeopleInField |
academia
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film ⓘ law ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ performing arts ⓘ philosophy ⓘ politics ⓘ science ⓘ television ⓘ visual arts ⓘ |
| category |
German-language surnames
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Surnames of Jewish origin ⓘ Yiddish-language surnames ⓘ |
| derivedFromWord |
German word "Feld" meaning "field"
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German word "Mann" meaning "man" ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | occupational surname ⓘ |
| frequency | common among Jewish diaspora communities ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Ashkenazi Jewish ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
German
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasLinguisticOrigin | Germanic ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Corey Feldman
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David Feldman ⓘ Jerome Feldman ⓘ Mark Feldman ⓘ Michelle Feldman ⓘ Morton Feldman ⓘ Noah Feldman ⓘ Seymour Feldman ⓘ Shmuel Feldman ⓘ Theodore Feldman ⓘ Walter Feldman ⓘ |
| meaning | field man ⓘ |
| spellingType | anglicized form of German surname "Feldmann" ⓘ |
| usedBy | Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Argentina
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Australia ⓘ Canada ⓘ Germany ⓘ Israel ⓘ Russia ⓘ South Africa ⓘ Ukraine ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| variantOf |
Feldmann
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linked to:
Feldman
|
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: Feldman Description of subject: Feldman is a surname of Germanic and Ashkenazi Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as music, academia, and the arts.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.