Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz

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16th-century rabbi Hebrew poet Jewish mystic Safed rabbi kabbalist rabbi

Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz was a 16th-century Kabbalist and rabbi of Safed, best known as a leading mystic of the Golden Age of Jewish mysticism.

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Label	Occurrences
Shlomo Alkabetz	9
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz canonical	2
Rabbi Shlomo Alkabetz	1
Rabbi Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz	1
Shlomo Halevi	1
Shlomo ha-Levi Alkabetz	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T651522 — 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: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz
Context triple: [Lecha Dodi, author, Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz]

A. Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
B. Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
C. Saadia Gaon
Saadia Gaon was a 10th-century Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exegete renowned for his foundational works in Jewish theology, biblical commentary, and translation, particularly in Judeo-Arabic.
D. Judah ha-Nasi
Judah ha-Nasi was a prominent 2nd–3rd century CE Jewish sage and patriarch best known for redacting and organizing the foundational rabbinic text of Jewish law and tradition.
E. Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi whose innovative teachings in Safed profoundly reshaped Kabbalistic thought and practice.
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: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz
Target entity description: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz was a 16th-century Kabbalist and rabbi of Safed, best known as a leading mystic of the Golden Age of Jewish mysticism.

A. Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
B. Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
C. Saadia Gaon
Saadia Gaon was a 10th-century Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exegete renowned for his foundational works in Jewish theology, biblical commentary, and translation, particularly in Judeo-Arabic.
D. Judah ha-Nasi
Judah ha-Nasi was a prominent 2nd–3rd century CE Jewish sage and patriarch best known for redacting and organizing the foundational rabbinic text of Jewish law and tradition.
E. Isaac Luria
Isaac Luria was a 16th-century Jewish mystic and rabbi whose innovative teachings in Safed profoundly reshaped Kabbalistic thought and practice.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	16th-century rabbi ⓘ Hebrew poet ⓘ Jewish mystic ⓘ Safed rabbi ⓘ kabbalist ⓘ rabbi ⓘ
associatedWith	Golden Age of Safed mysticism ⓘ linked to: Safed Kabbalah Jewish liturgical poetry ⓘ Safed Kabbalists ⓘ linked to: Safed Kabbalah
culturalContext	Sephardic Judaism ⓘ linked to: Sephardi Jews
era	16th century ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Hebrew liturgy ⓘ Jewish law ⓘ Jewish mysticism ⓘ linked to: Kabbalah
genre	piyyut ⓘ
influenced	Jewish Sabbath liturgy ⓘ later Kabbalistic practice ⓘ
influencedBy	Zoharic literature ⓘ linked to: Zohar earlier Kabbalistic traditions ⓘ
knownFor	composition of the liturgical poem Lecha Dodi ⓘ role in the Golden Age of Jewish mysticism in Safed ⓘ
language	Hebrew ⓘ
liturgicalRole	author of a central Kabbalat Shabbat hymn ⓘ
liturgicalUseOfWork	Friday night synagogue prayers ⓘ Kabbalat Shabbat service ⓘ
movement	Kabbalah ⓘ
name	Shlomo Alkabetz ⓘ linked to: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz ⓘ Shlomo ha-Levi Alkabetz ⓘ linked to: Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz
nationality	Ottoman subject ⓘ
notableWork	Lecha Dodi ⓘ
occupation	kabbalist ⓘ rabbi ⓘ religious poet ⓘ
placeOfActivity	Ottoman Palestine ⓘ Safed ⓘ
region	Land of Israel ⓘ linked to: Eretz HaKodesh
religion	Judaism ⓘ
religiousTradition	Orthodox Judaism ⓘ
status	leading mystic of Safed ⓘ
timePeriod	Ottoman era in the Land of Israel ⓘ
tradition	Lurianic Kabbalah milieu ⓘ
wroteAbout	Sabbath symbolism ⓘ mystical themes ⓘ redemption ⓘ

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