Icchok Lejbusz Perec
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Yiddish-language playwright
Yiddish-language writer
modern Yiddish literature pioneer
person
playwright
writer
Icchok Lejbusz Perec was a seminal Yiddish writer and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, regarded as one of the founding figures of modern Yiddish literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Icchok Lejbusz Perec canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5041350 — 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: Icchok Lejbusz Perec Context triple: [Jewish Cemetery, Warsaw, containsGraveOf, Icchok Lejbusz Perec]
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A.
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor renowned for his spare, haunting works that explore Jewish identity, memory, and trauma in prewar and postwar Europe.
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B.
Mihály Kertész
Mihály Kertész, better known as Michael Curtiz, was a Hungarian-American film director renowned for classics such as "Casablanca" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
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C.
Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin was an influential Israeli playwright, author, and director known for his darkly satirical and provocative works that reshaped modern Hebrew theater.
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D.
A. B. Yehoshua
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.
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E.
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian Jewish writer and Nobel Prize laureate whose works, especially his novel "Fatelessness," explore the trauma and absurdity of the Holocaust and totalitarianism.
- 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: Icchok Lejbusz Perec Target entity description: Icchok Lejbusz Perec was a seminal Yiddish writer and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, regarded as one of the founding figures of modern Yiddish literature.
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A.
Aharon Appelfeld
Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor renowned for his spare, haunting works that explore Jewish identity, memory, and trauma in prewar and postwar Europe.
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B.
Mihály Kertész
Mihály Kertész, better known as Michael Curtiz, was a Hungarian-American film director renowned for classics such as "Casablanca" and "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
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C.
Hanoch Levin
Hanoch Levin was an influential Israeli playwright, author, and director known for his darkly satirical and provocative works that reshaped modern Hebrew theater.
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D.
A. B. Yehoshua
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.
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E.
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian Jewish writer and Nobel Prize laureate whose works, especially his novel "Fatelessness," explore the trauma and absurdity of the Holocaust and totalitarianism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yiddish-language playwright
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Yiddish-language writer ⓘ modern Yiddish literature pioneer ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alternateName |
I. L. Peretz
NERFINISHED
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Isaac Leib Peretz NERFINISHED ⓘ Yitskhok Leybush Peretz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1852-05-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Congress Poland
NERFINISHED
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Russian Empire ⓘ Zamość NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Mendele Moykher Sforim
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sholem Aleichem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Poland ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1915-04-03 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Congress Poland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Russian Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
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essay ⓘ poetry ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| influenced |
Der Nister
NERFINISHED
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Sholem Asch NERFINISHED ⓘ modern Yiddish writers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Hebrew
ⓘ
Polish ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| movement |
Haskalah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jewish literary modernism ⓘ modern Yiddish literature ⓘ |
| nameInYiddish | יצחק לייבוש פרץ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bontshe Shvayg
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hasidic Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ If Not Higher NERFINISHED ⓘ Stories and Pictures NERFINISHED ⓘ The Night in the Old Marketplace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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journalist ⓘ lawyer ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | community lawyer in Warsaw ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Warsaw 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: Icchok Lejbusz Perec Description of subject: Icchok Lejbusz Perec was a seminal Yiddish writer and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, regarded as one of the founding figures of modern Yiddish literature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.