Feigel
E617418
Feigel is a surname of Germanic or Yiddish origin, often associated with Central and Eastern European Jewish families.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Feiga | 1 |
| Feigel canonical | 1 |
| Feigelbaum | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6760365 — 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: Feigel Context triple: [Feigl, hasVariant, Feigel]
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A.
Schechter
Schechter is a Jewish surname most notably associated with Solomon Schechter, a prominent rabbi and scholar who helped shape Conservative Judaism.
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B.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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C.
Frieda
Frieda is a 1947 British drama film produced by Michael Balcon that explores post-World War II tensions and prejudice in England.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Gershon
Gershon is the surname of American actress Gina Gershon, known for her roles in films like "Showgirls" and "Bound."
- 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: Feigel Target entity description: Feigel is a surname of Germanic or Yiddish origin, often associated with Central and Eastern European Jewish families.
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A.
Schechter
Schechter is a Jewish surname most notably associated with Solomon Schechter, a prominent rabbi and scholar who helped shape Conservative Judaism.
-
B.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
-
C.
Frieda
Frieda is a 1947 British drama film produced by Michael Balcon that explores post-World War II tensions and prejudice in England.
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D.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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E.
Gershon
Gershon is the surname of American actress Gina Gershon, known for her roles in films like "Showgirls" and "Bound."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | surname ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| commonIn |
Austria
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Israel ⓘ Poland ⓘ Russia ⓘ Ukraine ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasCulturalAssociation |
Ashkenazi Jewish
ⓘ
linked to:
Ashkenazi Jews
|
| hasEthnicAssociation |
Jewish people
ⓘ
linked to:
Jews
|
| hasEtymologicalRoot | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| hasGenderForm | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasGeographicAssociation |
Central Europe
ⓘ
Eastern Europe ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasScript | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Feigelbaum
ⓘ
linked to:
Feigel
Feigelson ⓘ Feigl ⓘ |
| nameType | Ashkenazi surname ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname in Jewish diaspora communities ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Central European Jewish families
ⓘ
Eastern European Jewish families ⓘ
linked to:
Eastern European Jewry
|
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: Feigel Description of subject: Feigel is a surname of Germanic or Yiddish origin, often associated with Central and Eastern European Jewish families.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Feigel
linked to: Feigel