Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel

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Chief Rabbi Sephardi rabbi halakhic authority person rabbi

Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel was a prominent 20th-century Sephardi rabbinic leader and halakhic authority who played a key role in shaping religious life in the Jewish community of pre-state and early Israel.

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Label	Occurrences
Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel canonical	2

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10713967 — 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.

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Target entity: Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Context triple: [Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, firstHolder, Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel]

A. Ehud Shabtai
Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief architect of the GPS-based navigation app Waze.
B. Meir Yaari
Meir Yaari was an Israeli socialist-Zionist leader and long-time head of the left-wing Mapam party, influential in shaping the kibbutz movement and early Israeli politics.
C. Yitzhak-Meir Levin
Yitzhak-Meir Levin was a prominent Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Agudat Yisrael political leader who served as a signatory of Israel’s Declaration of Independence and later as a government minister.
D. Haim-Moshe Shapira
Haim-Moshe Shapira was a prominent Israeli religious Zionist leader and long-serving cabinet minister who played a key role in the founding and early governance of the State of Israel.
E. Mordechai Hod
Mordechai Hod was an Israeli Air Force general best known for leading and modernizing Israel’s air power, including during the pivotal 1967 Six-Day War.
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: Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
Target entity description: Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel was a prominent 20th-century Sephardi rabbinic leader and halakhic authority who played a key role in shaping religious life in the Jewish community of pre-state and early Israel.

A. Ehud Shabtai
Ehud Shabtai is an Israeli software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and chief architect of the GPS-based navigation app Waze.
B. Meir Yaari
Meir Yaari was an Israeli socialist-Zionist leader and long-time head of the left-wing Mapam party, influential in shaping the kibbutz movement and early Israeli politics.
C. Yitzhak-Meir Levin
Yitzhak-Meir Levin was a prominent Polish-born Israeli rabbi and Agudat Yisrael political leader who served as a signatory of Israel’s Declaration of Independence and later as a government minister.
D. Haim-Moshe Shapira
Haim-Moshe Shapira was a prominent Israeli religious Zionist leader and long-serving cabinet minister who played a key role in the founding and early governance of the State of Israel.
E. Mordechai Hod
Mordechai Hod was an Israeli Air Force general best known for leading and modernizing Israel’s air power, including during the pivotal 1967 Six-Day War.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chief Rabbi ⓘ Sephardi rabbi ⓘ halakhic authority ⓘ person ⓘ rabbi ⓘ
areaOfInfluence	Sephardi Jewry NERFINISHED ⓘ State of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Israel ⓘ Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ Ottoman Empire ⓘ
culture	Sephardi Jewish culture ⓘ
denomination	Orthodox Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ
educatedAt	Jerusalem yeshivot NERFINISHED ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Sephardi Jew NERFINISHED ⓘ
familyName	Uziel NERFINISHED ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Halakha ⓘ Jewish law ⓘ rabbinic leadership ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
givenName	Ben-Zion NERFINISHED ⓘ
ideology	Religious Zionism NERFINISHED ⓘ Zionism NERFINISHED ⓘ
knownFor	lenient halakhic approach in some modern questions ⓘ public leadership in pre-state Jewish community ⓘ responsa literature ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Arabic ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ Ladino ⓘ
movement	Religious Zionism NERFINISHED ⓘ
name	Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	advocacy of Jewish-Arab coexistence ⓘ efforts to integrate Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities ⓘ halakhic rulings on modern issues ⓘ leading Sephardi Chief Rabbinate in pre-state Palestine ⓘ serving as first Sephardi Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel ⓘ support for religious Zionism ⓘ
notableWork	Mishpetei Uziel NERFINISHED ⓘ Piskei Uziel NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	Chief Rabbi ⓘ posek ⓘ rabbi ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Jerusalem NERFINISHED ⓘ Jerusalem, Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	Rishon LeZion NERFINISHED ⓘ Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ Sephardi Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel ⓘ
religion	Judaism ⓘ

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Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel → firstHolder → Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel ⓘ

Second Aliyah (Jewish immigration wave, 1904–1914) → hasNotableParticipant → Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel ⓘ

subject surface form: Second Aliyah

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