Rabbi Moshe
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16th-century rabbi
Ashkenazi rabbi
Jewish legal scholar
Polish Jew
Talmudist
halachic authority
kabbalist
philosopher
posek
rabbi
Rabbi Moshe, known as the Rema (Rabbi Moses Isserles), was a preeminent 16th-century Polish rabbi and halachic authority whose glosses on the Shulchan Aruch became foundational for Ashkenazi Jewish law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Rabbi Moshe canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11560929 — 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: Rabbi Moshe Context triple: [Rema, honorificPrefix, Rabbi Moshe]
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A.
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever was a leading 19th-century Orthodox rabbi and early Zionist pioneer who helped lay the ideological and organizational foundations of religious Zionism.
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B.
Rabbi Yosef Teomim
Rabbi Yosef Teomim was an 18th-century rabbinic authority and halachic commentator best known for his influential work Pri Megadim on the Shulchan Aruch.
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C.
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbi and halachic authority, best known as the head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem and for his influential Torah scholarship.
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D.
Rabbi Elazar Azikri
Rabbi Elazar Azikri was a 16th-century Safed kabbalist and rabbi best known as the author of the mystical work "Sefer Haredim" and the devotional poem "Yedid Nefesh."
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E.
Rabbi Moshe Mitrani
Rabbi Moshe Mitrani was a prominent rabbinic scholar and kabbalist associated with the historic Jewish community of Safed.
- 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: Rabbi Moshe Target entity description: Rabbi Moshe, known as the Rema (Rabbi Moses Isserles), was a preeminent 16th-century Polish rabbi and halachic authority whose glosses on the Shulchan Aruch became foundational for Ashkenazi Jewish law.
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A.
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever was a leading 19th-century Orthodox rabbi and early Zionist pioneer who helped lay the ideological and organizational foundations of religious Zionism.
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B.
Rabbi Yosef Teomim
Rabbi Yosef Teomim was an 18th-century rabbinic authority and halachic commentator best known for his influential work Pri Megadim on the Shulchan Aruch.
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C.
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbi and halachic authority, best known as the head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem and for his influential Torah scholarship.
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D.
Rabbi Elazar Azikri
Rabbi Elazar Azikri was a 16th-century Safed kabbalist and rabbi best known as the author of the mystical work "Sefer Haredim" and the devotional poem "Yedid Nefesh."
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E.
Rabbi Moshe Mitrani
Rabbi Moshe Mitrani was a prominent rabbinic scholar and kabbalist associated with the historic Jewish community of Safed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century rabbi
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Ashkenazi rabbi ⓘ Jewish legal scholar ⓘ Polish Jew ⓘ Talmudist ⓘ halachic authority ⓘ kabbalist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ posek ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Kingdom of Poland
NERFINISHED
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Kraków NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | c. 1530 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Old Jewish Cemetery in Kraków NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| century | 16th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy |
Rema Cemetery in Kraków
NERFINISHED
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Rema Synagogue in Kraków NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commentaryOn |
Arba'ah Turim
NERFINISHED
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Shulchan Aruch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Kraków NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1572 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ashkenazi Jews NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Halakha
NERFINISHED
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Jewish philosophy ⓘ Kabbalah NERFINISHED ⓘ Talmud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| halachicStatus | primary authority for Ashkenazi practice ⓘ |
| hasAcronym |
Rema
NERFINISHED
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Rema"a NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHebrewName | משה איסרליש NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName |
Moses Isserles
NERFINISHED
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Moshe Isserles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Golda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Gaon
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Rabbi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ashkenazi Jewish law
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Polish Jewry NERFINISHED ⓘ later halachic authorities ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Rabbi Shalom Shachna
NERFINISHED
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Rabbi Yaakov Pollak NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Darkhei Moshe
NERFINISHED
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Torat HaOlah NERFINISHED ⓘ codification of Ashkenazi halacha ⓘ glosses on the Shulchan Aruch ⓘ responsa ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Hebrew ⓘ |
| legalTraditionIntegrated | Ashkenazi customs into Shulchan Aruch ⓘ |
| mainWork |
Darkhei Moshe
NERFINISHED
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HaMapah NERFINISHED ⓘ Teshuvot Rema NERFINISHED ⓘ Torat HaOlah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Orthodox Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
head of yeshiva in Kraków
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rabbi of Kraków ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| schoolOfThought | Ashkenazi halachic tradition ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rabbi Moshe Description of subject: Rabbi Moshe, known as the Rema (Rabbi Moses Isserles), was a preeminent 16th-century Polish rabbi and halachic authority whose glosses on the Shulchan Aruch became foundational for Ashkenazi Jewish law.
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