Leibowitz
E144675
Leibowitz is the birth surname of American comedian and former "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Leibowitz canonical | 8 |
| Leibovitch | 1 |
| Leybowitz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1272206 — 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: Leibowitz Context triple: [Jon Stewart, familyName, Leibowitz]
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A.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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B.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff is a Canadian computer scientist known for his influential work in cryptography and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Rothkowitz
Rothkowitz is the original family surname of the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, reflecting his Eastern European Jewish heritage.
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D.
Borstein
Borstein is the surname of American actress and comedian Alex Borstein, known for her voice role as Lois Griffin on "Family Guy" and her performance on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
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E.
Charles Weissmann
Charles Weissmann is a Swiss molecular biologist and biotechnology pioneer known for his groundbreaking work on interferons and prion diseases and for co-founding the biotech company Biogen.
- 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: Leibowitz Target entity description: Leibowitz is the birth surname of American comedian and former "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.
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A.
Blaustein
Blaustein is a municipality in the Alb-Donau district of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany, situated near the city of Ulm.
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B.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff is a Canadian computer scientist known for his influential work in cryptography and computational complexity theory.
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C.
Rothkowitz
Rothkowitz is the original family surname of the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, reflecting his Eastern European Jewish heritage.
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D.
Borstein
Borstein is the surname of American actress and comedian Alex Borstein, known for her voice role as Lois Griffin on "Family Guy" and her performance on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."
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E.
Charles Weissmann
Charles Weissmann is a Swiss molecular biologist and biotechnology pioneer known for his groundbreaking work on interferons and prion diseases and for co-founding the biotech company Biogen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz ⓘ |
| birthSurname | Leibowitz ⓘ |
| category |
Germanic-language surnames
ⓘ
Jewish surnames ⓘ Yiddish-language surnames ⓘ |
| changedSurnameFrom | Leibowitz ⓘ |
| derivesFrom | Leib ⓘ |
| etymologicalType | patronymic surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Jon Stewart
ⓘ
Liel Leibovitz ⓘ Nechama Leibowitz ⓘ Rachel Leibowitz ⓘ Simon Leibowitz ⓘ Yeshayahu Leibowitz ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Leibovitch
ⓘ
linked to:
Leibowitz
Leibovitz ⓘ
linked to:
Annie Leibovitz
Leybowitz ⓘ
linked to:
Leibowitz
|
| languageOfOrigin |
German
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Israel
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| usedInEthnicGroup | Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ |
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: Leibowitz Description of subject: Leibowitz is the birth surname of American comedian and former "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.