Weinstein
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Weinstein is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as film, academia, and politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Weinstein canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6705166 — 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: Weinstein Context triple: [Lily Weinstein, familyName, Weinstein]
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A.
Weitz
Weitz is a surname most prominently associated with American filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz, known for movies such as "American Pie" and "About a Boy."
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B.
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein is a former Hollywood film producer and co-founder of Miramax who became infamous after being convicted of multiple sex crimes following widespread allegations that helped ignite the #MeToo movement.
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C.
Bob Weinstein
Bob Weinstein is an American film producer and co-founder of Miramax Films and Dimension Films, known for producing numerous influential genre and independent movies.
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D.
Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss is a surname most prominently associated with American actor Richard Dreyfuss, known for his roles in films such as "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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E.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
- 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: Weinstein Target entity description: Weinstein is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as film, academia, and politics.
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A.
Weitz
Weitz is a surname most prominently associated with American filmmakers Chris and Paul Weitz, known for movies such as "American Pie" and "About a Boy."
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B.
Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein is a former Hollywood film producer and co-founder of Miramax who became infamous after being convicted of multiple sex crimes following widespread allegations that helped ignite the #MeToo movement.
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C.
Bob Weinstein
Bob Weinstein is an American film producer and co-founder of Miramax Films and Dimension Films, known for producing numerous influential genre and independent movies.
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D.
Dreyfuss
Dreyfuss is a surname most prominently associated with American actor Richard Dreyfuss, known for his roles in films such as "Jaws" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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E.
Dashiell Weinstein
Dashiell Weinstein is one of the children of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Ashkenazi Jewish surname
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surname ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasEthnicAssociation | Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalElement |
Stein (stone)
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Wein (wine) ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasMeaning |
tartar (wine sediment)
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wine stone ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alexander Weinstein
NERFINISHED
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Allen Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Avraham Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Bob Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Bret Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ David Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Eric Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Harvey Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Jack Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Jacob Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Laura Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Miriam Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Norman Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Rachel Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Steven Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ William Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Yakov Weinstein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOriginRegion |
Central Europe
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
German-speaking countries ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration |
Вайнштейн
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Вайнштейн (Russian) ⓘ Вайнштейн (Ukrainian) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Vainshtein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vajnštejn NERFINISHED ⓘ Vaynshteyn NERFINISHED ⓘ Wainstein NERFINISHED ⓘ Weinstine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isCategoryMemberOf |
German-language surnames
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Jewish surnames ⓘ Yiddish-language surnames ⓘ |
| usedAs |
surname of notable people in academia
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surname of notable people in film ⓘ surname of notable people in politics ⓘ |
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: Weinstein Description of subject: Weinstein is a common Ashkenazi Jewish surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as film, academia, and politics.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.