Susan Silverman
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Susan Silverman is an American rabbi, author, and activist known for her work on Jewish identity, adoption advocacy, and social justice, as well as being the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Susan Silverman canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3084433 — 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: Susan Silverman Context triple: [Sarah Silverman, hasSibling, Susan Silverman]
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A.
Laura Silverman
Laura Silverman is an American actress and voice actress known for her work on shows like "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist" and "The Sarah Silverman Program."
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B.
Susan Jaffe
Susan Jaffe is a renowned former principal ballerina and influential leader in the dance world who now heads one of the United States’ premier ballet companies.
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C.
Gail Berman
Gail Berman is an American television and film producer and media executive known for her influential roles at major studios and for producing high-profile projects across network TV and Hollywood.
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D.
Arlene Silver
Arlene Silver is a professional makeup artist best known as the much younger wife of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
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E.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- 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: Susan Silverman Target entity description: Susan Silverman is an American rabbi, author, and activist known for her work on Jewish identity, adoption advocacy, and social justice, as well as being the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
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A.
Laura Silverman
Laura Silverman is an American actress and voice actress known for her work on shows like "Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist" and "The Sarah Silverman Program."
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B.
Susan Jaffe
Susan Jaffe is a renowned former principal ballerina and influential leader in the dance world who now heads one of the United States’ premier ballet companies.
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C.
Gail Berman
Gail Berman is an American television and film producer and media executive known for her influential roles at major studios and for producing high-profile projects across network TV and Hollywood.
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D.
Arlene Silver
Arlene Silver is a professional makeup artist best known as the much younger wife of legendary American actor and entertainer Dick Van Dyke.
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E.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
activist
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author ⓘ human ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston University
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Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Jewish identity
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adoption advocacy ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasChild |
adopted children
ⓘ
biological children ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Beth Ann O’Hara
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Donald Silverman ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Reform Judaism ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for Jewish pluralism in Israel
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advocacy for international adoption ⓘ public speaking on social justice issues ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World
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Jewish Family & Life: Traditions, Holidays, and Values for Today’s Parents and Children ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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rabbi ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| participatesIn | Jewish social justice movements ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Israel ⓘ |
| sibling |
Laura Silverman
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Sarah Silverman ⓘ |
| spouse | Yosef Abramowitz ⓘ |
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: Susan Silverman Description of subject: Susan Silverman is an American rabbi, author, and activist known for her work on Jewish identity, adoption advocacy, and social justice, as well as being the sister of comedian Sarah Silverman.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.