Israel ben Josef
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Israel ben Josef was a prominent 16th-century Jewish community leader and patron in Kraków, known especially as the father of the renowned rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rema).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Israel ben Josef canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11561184 — 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: Israel ben Josef Context triple: [Rema Synagogue in Kraków, foundedBy, Israel ben Josef]
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A.
Yehuda
Yehuda is a Hebrew given name traditionally associated with the biblical tribe of Judah and commonly used in Jewish communities.
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B.
Or Yehuda
Or Yehuda is a city in central Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District and functioning largely as a residential suburb of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
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C.
Judah
Judah was an ancient Israelite kingdom in the southern Levant, centered around Jerusalem and prominent in biblical history.
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D.
יעקב
יעקב הוא אחד מאבות האומה המקראיים, דמות מרכזית בספר בראשית ואבי שנים-עשר שבטי ישראל.
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E.
Yosef
Yosef is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, best known from the patriarch Joseph and widely used in Jewish communities.
- 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: Israel ben Josef Target entity description: Israel ben Josef was a prominent 16th-century Jewish community leader and patron in Kraków, known especially as the father of the renowned rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rema).
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A.
Yehuda
Yehuda is a Hebrew given name traditionally associated with the biblical tribe of Judah and commonly used in Jewish communities.
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B.
Or Yehuda
Or Yehuda is a city in central Israel, located in the Tel Aviv District and functioning largely as a residential suburb of the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
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C.
Judah
Judah was an ancient Israelite kingdom in the southern Levant, centered around Jerusalem and prominent in biblical history.
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D.
יעקב
יעקב הוא אחד מאבות האומה המקראיים, דמות מרכזית בספר בראשית ואבי שנים-עשר שבטי ישראל.
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E.
Yosef
Yosef is a Hebrew given name of biblical origin, best known from the patriarch Joseph and widely used in Jewish communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century person
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Jewish community leader ⓘ Polish Jew ⓘ patron of Jewish learning ⓘ |
| activityPeriod | 16th century ⓘ |
| child | Moses Isserles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Poland ⓘ |
| culture | Ashkenazi Jewish ⓘ |
| era | early modern period ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| father | Israel ben Josef NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
Hebrew
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| name | Israel ben Josef NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rema) ⓘ |
| notableRole | leader of the Jewish community in Kraków ⓘ |
| occupation |
community leader
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patron ⓘ |
| patronymic | ben Josef ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Kraków Jewish community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Kingdom of Poland
NERFINISHED
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Kraków NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported |
Jewish institutions in Kraków
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rabbinic scholarship ⓘ |
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: Israel ben Josef Description of subject: Israel ben Josef was a prominent 16th-century Jewish community leader and patron in Kraków, known especially as the father of the renowned rabbi Moses Isserles (the Rema).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.