Yitzhak Modai
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Yitzhak Modai was an Israeli politician who held several key ministerial posts, including finance and energy, and was a prominent figure in the right-wing Likud party.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yitzhak Modai canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4659294 — 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: Yitzhak Modai Context triple: [Likud, notableLeader, Yitzhak Modai]
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A.
Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon was an Israeli politician, diplomat, and writer who served as the fifth President of Israel and was known for promoting cultural diversity and peace.
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B.
Yigal Allon
Yigal Allon was an Israeli military commander, Palmach leader, and politician who served in senior government roles, including acting prime minister.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
Aharon Katzir
Aharon Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and pioneering researcher in the electrochemistry of biopolymers who became one of Israel’s most prominent scientists before his assassination in 1972.
- 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: Yitzhak Modai Target entity description: Yitzhak Modai was an Israeli politician who held several key ministerial posts, including finance and energy, and was a prominent figure in the right-wing Likud party.
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A.
Yitzhak Navon
Yitzhak Navon was an Israeli politician, diplomat, and writer who served as the fifth President of Israel and was known for promoting cultural diversity and peace.
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B.
Yigal Allon
Yigal Allon was an Israeli military commander, Palmach leader, and politician who served in senior government roles, including acting prime minister.
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C.
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.
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D.
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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E.
Aharon Katzir
Aharon Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and pioneering researcher in the electrochemistry of biopolymers who became one of Israel’s most prominent scientists before his assassination in 1972.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Israeli politician
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human ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish people
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| familyName | Modai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
energy policy
ⓘ
politics ⓘ public finance ⓘ |
| givenName | Yitzhak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Likud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership role in Likud party
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serving as Israel's Minister of Energy ⓘ serving as Israel's Minister of Finance ⓘ |
| notableWork |
economic policy of Israel
ⓘ
energy policy of Israel ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| parliament | Knesset NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | right-wing ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the Knesset
NERFINISHED
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Minister of Communications of Israel ⓘ Minister of Energy and Infrastructure of Israel ⓘ Minister of Finance of Israel ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Yitzhak Modai Description of subject: Yitzhak Modai was an Israeli politician who held several key ministerial posts, including finance and energy, and was a prominent figure in the right-wing Likud party.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Likud