A. B. Yehoshua
E473622
A. B. Yehoshua was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright whose psychologically rich and politically engaged works made him one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| A. B. Yehoshua canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4759814 — 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: A. B. Yehoshua Context triple: [Modern Hebrew literature, hasNotableAuthor, A. B. Yehoshua]
-
A.
S. Y. Agnon
S. Y. Agnon was a Nobel Prize–winning Israeli writer whose modernist Hebrew fiction profoundly shaped 20th-century Hebrew literature and Jewish narrative tradition.
-
B.
Amos Oz
Amos Oz was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and intellectual known for his explorations of Israeli society and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
-
C.
Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer renowned for his surreal, darkly humorous short stories and his influential role in contemporary Hebrew literature.
-
D.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
-
E.
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky was a prominent Hebrew poet and translator of the early 20th century, known for his nature poetry, humanist themes, and influential role in modern Hebrew literature.
- 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: A. B. Yehoshua Target entity description: A. B. Yehoshua was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright whose psychologically rich and politically engaged works made him one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature.
-
A.
S. Y. Agnon
S. Y. Agnon was a Nobel Prize–winning Israeli writer whose modernist Hebrew fiction profoundly shaped 20th-century Hebrew literature and Jewish narrative tradition.
-
B.
Amos Oz
Amos Oz was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and intellectual known for his explorations of Israeli society and the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
-
C.
Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer renowned for his surreal, darkly humorous short stories and his influential role in contemporary Hebrew literature.
-
D.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
-
E.
Shaul Tchernichovsky
Shaul Tchernichovsky was a prominent Hebrew poet and translator of the early 20th century, known for his nature poetry, humanist themes, and influential role in modern Hebrew literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew-language writer
ⓘ
Israeli writer ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
A. B. Yehoshua
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Avraham B. Yehoshua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bialik Prize for literature
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Israel Prize for Hebrew literature and poetry NERFINISHED ⓘ National Jewish Book Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kiryat Shaul Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1936-12-19 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2022-06-14 ⓘ |
| describedBySource | central figure of modern Hebrew literature ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hebrew University of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | University of Haifa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Mizrahi Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Yehoshua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
modern Hebrew literature ⓘ political essay ⓘ |
| fullName | Avraham Gabriel Yehoshua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
ⓘ
novel ⓘ play ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| givenName |
Avraham
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Gabriel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| militaryService | Israel Defense Forces NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | modern Hebrew literature ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
advocacy of two-state solution
ⓘ
critique of Jewish diaspora identity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Late Divorce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Five Seasons NERFINISHED ⓘ Friendly Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ Journey to the End of the Millennium NERFINISHED ⓘ Mr. Mani NERFINISHED ⓘ The Liberated Bride NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tel Aviv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Israeli left ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of literature ⓘ |
| spouse | Rivka Yehoshua NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studied |
Hebrew literature
ⓘ
philosophy ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
politically engaged
ⓘ
psychologically rich ⓘ |
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: A. B. Yehoshua Description of subject: A. B. Yehoshua was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright whose psychologically rich and politically engaged works made him one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.