Yair Goldfinger
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Yair Goldfinger is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder of Mirabilis, the company behind the pioneering instant messaging service ICQ.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yair Goldfinger canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6360551 — 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: Yair Goldfinger Context triple: [Mirabilis, foundedBy, Yair Goldfinger]
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A.
Giora Feidman
Giora Feidman is an Argentine-born Israeli clarinetist renowned worldwide for his performances and recordings of klezmer and Jewish soul music.
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B.
Harel Weinstein
Harel Weinstein is an Israeli-American neuroscientist and biophysicist known for his work on membrane proteins and computational neuroscience.
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C.
Itamar Rabinovich
Itamar Rabinovich is an Israeli historian, diplomat, and former ambassador to the United States, known for his scholarship on the modern Middle East and leadership roles in Israeli academia and public affairs.
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D.
Avner Kaufman
Avner Kaufman is the central Mossad agent protagonist in Steven Spielberg’s film "Munich," depicted as a conflicted assassin grappling with the moral consequences of his mission.
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E.
Gilad Londovski
Gilad Londovski is an Israeli professional who is best known as the husband of acclaimed actress Ayelet Zurer.
- 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: Yair Goldfinger Target entity description: Yair Goldfinger is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder of Mirabilis, the company behind the pioneering instant messaging service ICQ.
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A.
Giora Feidman
Giora Feidman is an Argentine-born Israeli clarinetist renowned worldwide for his performances and recordings of klezmer and Jewish soul music.
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B.
Harel Weinstein
Harel Weinstein is an Israeli-American neuroscientist and biophysicist known for his work on membrane proteins and computational neuroscience.
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C.
Itamar Rabinovich
Itamar Rabinovich is an Israeli historian, diplomat, and former ambassador to the United States, known for his scholarship on the modern Middle East and leadership roles in Israeli academia and public affairs.
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D.
Avner Kaufman
Avner Kaufman is the central Mossad agent protagonist in Steven Spielberg’s film "Munich," depicted as a conflicted assassin grappling with the moral consequences of his mission.
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E.
Gilad Londovski
Gilad Londovski is an Israeli professional who is best known as the husband of acclaimed actress Ayelet Zurer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
entrepreneur
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person ⓘ software engineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Israeli high-tech sector
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internet startups ⓘ |
| basedIn | Israel ⓘ |
| coFounded |
ICQ
ⓘ
Mirabilis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| developed |
ICQ instant messaging service
ⓘ
linked to:
ICQ
|
| employer | Mirabilis ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
computer software
ⓘ
instant messaging ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| industry |
software industry
ⓘ
technology industry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-founding Mirabilis
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developing ICQ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| nationality | Israeli ⓘ |
| notableFor | pioneering consumer instant messaging ⓘ |
| notableWork | ICQ ⓘ |
| occupation |
entrepreneur
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software engineer ⓘ |
| role | co-founder of Mirabilis ⓘ |
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: Yair Goldfinger Description of subject: Yair Goldfinger is an Israeli entrepreneur and software engineer best known as a co-founder of Mirabilis, the company behind the pioneering instant messaging service ICQ.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.