Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco
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Beth Sholom Synagogue in San Francisco is a contemporary Jewish house of worship noted for its modernist architectural design and innovative use of light and space.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10939305 — 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: Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco Context triple: [Stanley Saitowitz, designed, Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco]
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A.
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Beth Sholom Synagogue is a renowned modernist Jewish synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrated for its striking, pyramid-like glass and concrete structure.
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B.
Jewish Community Federation building, San Francisco
The Jewish Community Federation building in San Francisco is a historic downtown structure that formerly housed the Contemporary Jewish Museum before the museum moved to its current, purpose-built facility.
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C.
Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue
The Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue is a historic 16th-century kabbalistic synagogue in Safed, Israel, associated with Rabbi Isaac Luria and central to Jewish mystic tradition.
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D.
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco is a prominent Episcopal cathedral known for its striking Gothic Revival architecture, cultural events, and role as a major religious and artistic landmark in the city.
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E.
Etz Hayyim Synagogue
Etz Hayyim Synagogue is a historic Jewish synagogue in Chania, Crete, restored after World War II and serving as both a place of worship and a center for Jewish heritage and interfaith dialogue.
- 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: Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco Target entity description: Beth Sholom Synagogue in San Francisco is a contemporary Jewish house of worship noted for its modernist architectural design and innovative use of light and space.
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A.
Beth Sholom Synagogue
Beth Sholom Synagogue is a renowned modernist Jewish synagogue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrated for its striking, pyramid-like glass and concrete structure.
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B.
Jewish Community Federation building, San Francisco
The Jewish Community Federation building in San Francisco is a historic downtown structure that formerly housed the Contemporary Jewish Museum before the museum moved to its current, purpose-built facility.
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C.
Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue
The Ari Ashkenazi Synagogue is a historic 16th-century kabbalistic synagogue in Safed, Israel, associated with Rabbi Isaac Luria and central to Jewish mystic tradition.
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D.
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco is a prominent Episcopal cathedral known for its striking Gothic Revival architecture, cultural events, and role as a major religious and artistic landmark in the city.
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E.
Etz Hayyim Synagogue
Etz Hayyim Synagogue is a historic Jewish synagogue in Chania, Crete, restored after World War II and serving as both a place of worship and a center for Jewish heritage and interfaith dialogue.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish house of worship
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modernist building ⓘ religious building ⓘ synagogue ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Modernist architecture ⓘ |
| category |
Jewish organizations based in San Francisco
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Modernist synagogues in the United States ⓘ Synagogues in San Francisco ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
American Judaism
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Jewish community of San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| function |
community gathering place
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place of worship ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
contemporary aesthetic
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emphasis on natural light ⓘ innovative spatial organization ⓘ modernist architectural design ⓘ |
| languageOfServices |
English
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
California, United States
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surface form:
California
San Francisco ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| notableFor |
contemporary design
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innovative use of light ⓘ innovative use of space ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
Jewish holidays and festivals
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Jewish religious services ⓘ community events ⓘ religious education ⓘ |
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: Beth Sholom Synagogue, San Francisco Description of subject: Beth Sholom Synagogue in San Francisco is a contemporary Jewish house of worship noted for its modernist architectural design and innovative use of light and space.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.