Rabbi Shmuel Heller
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Rabbi Shmuel Heller was a prominent 19th-century rabbinic leader and halachic authority in Safed, known for his scholarship and leadership of the city’s Jewish community.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rabbi Shmuel Heller canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6245995 — 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: Rabbi Shmuel Heller Context triple: [Old Cemetery of Safed, hasGraveOf, Rabbi Shmuel Heller]
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A.
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner was a prominent 20th-century Haredi posek and Talmudic scholar, best known for his multi-volume halachic work "Shevet HaLevi."
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B.
Rabbi Asher Weiss
Rabbi Asher Weiss is a prominent contemporary Haredi posek and Torah scholar, widely respected for his halachic rulings, lectures, and writings.
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C.
Rabbi Shalom Messas
Rabbi Shalom Messas was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbinic authority who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco and later as Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, known for his extensive halachic writings and leadership.
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D.
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbi and halachic authority, best known as the head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem and for his influential Torah scholarship.
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E.
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach was a leading 20th-century Orthodox halachic authority in Jerusalem, renowned for his rulings on contemporary issues such as technology and medicine in Jewish law.
- 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: Rabbi Shmuel Heller Target entity description: Rabbi Shmuel Heller was a prominent 19th-century rabbinic leader and halachic authority in Safed, known for his scholarship and leadership of the city’s Jewish community.
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A.
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner
Rabbi Shmuel HaLevi Wosner was a prominent 20th-century Haredi posek and Talmudic scholar, best known for his multi-volume halachic work "Shevet HaLevi."
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B.
Rabbi Asher Weiss
Rabbi Asher Weiss is a prominent contemporary Haredi posek and Torah scholar, widely respected for his halachic rulings, lectures, and writings.
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C.
Rabbi Shalom Messas
Rabbi Shalom Messas was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbinic authority who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco and later as Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, known for his extensive halachic writings and leadership.
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D.
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbi and halachic authority, best known as the head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem and for his influential Torah scholarship.
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E.
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach was a leading 20th-century Orthodox halachic authority in Jerusalem, renowned for his rulings on contemporary issues such as technology and medicine in Jewish law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish religious leader
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halachic authority ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| authorityOn | Jewish law ⓘ |
| basedIn | Galilee NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish people
|
| fieldOfWork |
Halacha
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Talmud NERFINISHED ⓘ rabbinic leadership ⓘ |
| influenced | Jewish religious life in Safed ⓘ |
| influencedBy | earlier rabbinic authorities ⓘ |
| knownAs | Shmuel Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Aramaic
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Ottoman Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Jewish community of Safed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Orthodox Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Talmudic scholarship
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halachic rulings ⓘ leadership of the Jewish community of Safed ⓘ |
| partOf | rabbinic leadership of Ottoman Palestine ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief rabbi of Safed
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rabbinic leader of Safed ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Safed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Rabbi ⓘ |
| workLocation | Safed 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: Rabbi Shmuel Heller Description of subject: Rabbi Shmuel Heller was a prominent 19th-century rabbinic leader and halachic authority in Safed, known for his scholarship and leadership of the city’s Jewish community.
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