Itai Benjamini
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Itai Benjamini is an Israeli mathematician known for his influential work in probability theory, particularly in percolation and random walks on graphs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Itai Benjamini canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10076753 — 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: Itai Benjamini Context triple: [Harry Kesten, doctoralStudent, Itai Benjamini]
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A.
Yoav Kutner
Yoav Kutner is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the Magento e-commerce platform and later founder of Varien Inc.
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B.
Alon Shvut
Alon Shvut is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank known for its religious Zionist community and proximity to Jerusalem.
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C.
Gilad Bracha
Gilad Bracha is a computer scientist and programming language designer known for his work on Strongtalk, the Java language specification, and the development of the Newspeak programming language.
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D.
Paul Ben-Haim
Paul Ben-Haim was a prominent German-born Israeli composer and conductor, known as a pioneer of Israeli art music who blended Western classical traditions with Middle Eastern and Jewish musical elements.
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E.
Harel Weinstein
Harel Weinstein is an Israeli-American neuroscientist and biophysicist known for his work on membrane proteins and computational neuroscience.
- 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: Itai Benjamini Target entity description: Itai Benjamini is an Israeli mathematician known for his influential work in probability theory, particularly in percolation and random walks on graphs.
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A.
Yoav Kutner
Yoav Kutner is a technology entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the Magento e-commerce platform and later founder of Varien Inc.
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B.
Alon Shvut
Alon Shvut is an Israeli settlement in the West Bank known for its religious Zionist community and proximity to Jerusalem.
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C.
Gilad Bracha
Gilad Bracha is a computer scientist and programming language designer known for his work on Strongtalk, the Java language specification, and the development of the Newspeak programming language.
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D.
Paul Ben-Haim
Paul Ben-Haim was a prominent German-born Israeli composer and conductor, known as a pioneer of Israeli art music who blended Western classical traditions with Middle Eastern and Jewish musical elements.
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E.
Harel Weinstein
Harel Weinstein is an Israeli-American neuroscientist and biophysicist known for his work on membrane proteins and computational neuroscience.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ probabilist ⓘ |
| affiliation | Weizmann Institute of Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Erdős Prize
NERFINISHED
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Rothschild Prize in Mathematics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Alexander Holroyd
NERFINISHED
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Asaf Nachmias NERFINISHED ⓘ Christophe Garban NERFINISHED ⓘ Gady Kozma NERFINISHED ⓘ Gideon Amir NERFINISHED ⓘ Gábor Pete NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugo Duminil-Copin NERFINISHED ⓘ Jonathan Hermon NERFINISHED ⓘ Oded Schramm NERFINISHED ⓘ Omer Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ Ori Gurel-Gurevich NERFINISHED ⓘ Russell Lyons NERFINISHED ⓘ Yuval Peres NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| doctoralStudentOf | Hillel Furstenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Hebrew University of Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Weizmann Institute of Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
analysis on graphs
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discrete probability ⓘ geometric group theory (probabilistic aspects) ⓘ noise sensitivity ⓘ percolation theory ⓘ probability theory ⓘ random geometry ⓘ random planar maps ⓘ random walks on graphs ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAcademicAdvisor | Hillel Furstenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDoctoralStudent | Oded Schramm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf | Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Benjamini–Schramm convergence
NERFINISHED
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Benjamini–Schramm limits of graphs NERFINISHED ⓘ work on noise sensitivity of Boolean functions ⓘ work on percolation on graphs ⓘ work on random planar maps and geometry ⓘ work on random walks on infinite graphs ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Oded Schramm NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
researcher in mathematics
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university teacher ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Israel
NERFINISHED
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Rehovot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Itai Benjamini Description of subject: Itai Benjamini is an Israeli mathematician known for his influential work in probability theory, particularly in percolation and random walks on graphs.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.