Mordechai Gur
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Mordechai Gur was an Israeli general and later Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, best known for leading the paratroopers who entered the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mordechai Gur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4501180 — 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: Mordechai Gur Context triple: [Israeli capture of Old City of Jerusalem, belligerentCommander, Mordechai Gur]
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A.
Mordechai Bentov
Mordechai Bentov was an Israeli politician and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served in several ministerial roles in the early years of the state.
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B.
Yosef Sprinzak
Yosef Sprinzak was an Israeli politician and Zionist leader who became the first Speaker of the Knesset and a key figure in the early governance of the State of Israel.
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C.
Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a prominent Zionist leader and Israeli politician who played a key role in the founding of the State of Israel and served as its first Minister of the Interior.
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D.
Yehoshua Ravnitzky
Yehoshua Ravnitzky was a Jewish writer, editor, and publisher best known for co-editing the monumental anthology of rabbinic literature "Sefer Ha-Aggadah" with Hayim Nahman Bialik.
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E.
Elazar Granot
Elazar Granot was an Israeli politician and leader associated with the left-wing Mapam party, known for his role in shaping the party’s socialist and Zionist agenda.
- 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: Mordechai Gur Target entity description: Mordechai Gur was an Israeli general and later Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, best known for leading the paratroopers who entered the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
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A.
Mordechai Bentov
Mordechai Bentov was an Israeli politician and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served in several ministerial roles in the early years of the state.
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B.
Yosef Sprinzak
Yosef Sprinzak was an Israeli politician and Zionist leader who became the first Speaker of the Knesset and a key figure in the early governance of the State of Israel.
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C.
Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a prominent Zionist leader and Israeli politician who played a key role in the founding of the State of Israel and served as its first Minister of the Interior.
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D.
Yehoshua Ravnitzky
Yehoshua Ravnitzky was a Jewish writer, editor, and publisher best known for co-editing the monumental anthology of rabbinic literature "Sefer Ha-Aggadah" with Hayim Nahman Bialik.
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E.
Elazar Granot
Elazar Granot was an Israeli politician and leader associated with the left-wing Mapam party, known for his role in shaping the party’s socialist and Zionist agenda.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
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Israeli general ⓘ human ⓘ military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| allegiance | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedAsChiefOfStaff | 1974 ⓘ |
| birthName | Mordechai Gur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Jerusalem
NERFINISHED
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Mount Herzl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| conflict |
1948 Arab–Israeli War
NERFINISHED
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Six-Day War NERFINISHED ⓘ War of Attrition NERFINISHED ⓘ Yom Kippur War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Israel
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Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1930-05-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1995-07-16 ⓘ |
| endOfTermAsChiefOfStaff | 1978 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| knessetSession |
10th Knesset
NERFINISHED
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11th Knesset NERFINISHED ⓘ 12th Knesset NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf | Knesset NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Israel Defense Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
Lieutenant General
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Rav Aluf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mordechai Gur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
announcing the capture of the Temple Mount in 1967
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leading the paratroopers who entered the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
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politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Jerusalem
NERFINISHED
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Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Israel
NERFINISHED
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Tel Aviv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Israeli Labor Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
NERFINISHED
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Commander of the IDF Paratroopers Brigade ⓘ Commander of the Northern Command (IDF) NERFINISHED ⓘ Commander of the Southern Command (IDF) NERFINISHED ⓘ Deputy Minister of Defense of Israel ⓘ Member of the Knesset ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1978 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1948 ⓘ |
| spouse | Yaffa Gur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Mordechai Gur Description of subject: Mordechai Gur was an Israeli general and later Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, best known for leading the paratroopers who entered the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
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