Shulman
E146154
Shulman is a surname of Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as literature, academia, and the arts.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1280848 — 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: Shulman Context triple: [Max Shulman, familyName, Shulman]
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A.
Salzman
Salzman is the surname of Linda Salzman Sagan, an American artist and writer known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque sent into space.
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B.
Finkelstein
Finkelstein is a Jewish surname of German and Yiddish origin, commonly associated with families of Central and Eastern European descent.
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C.
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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D.
Rothkowitz
Rothkowitz is the original family surname of the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, reflecting his Eastern European Jewish heritage.
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E.
Bronstein
Bronstein is the original family surname of the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky.
- 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: Shulman Target entity description: Shulman is a surname of Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as literature, academia, and the arts.
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A.
Salzman
Salzman is the surname of Linda Salzman Sagan, an American artist and writer known for co-designing the Pioneer plaque sent into space.
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B.
Finkelstein
Finkelstein is a Jewish surname of German and Yiddish origin, commonly associated with families of Central and Eastern European descent.
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C.
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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D.
Rothkowitz
Rothkowitz is the original family surname of the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, reflecting his Eastern European Jewish heritage.
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E.
Bronstein
Bronstein is the original family surname of the Russian revolutionary leader Leon Trotsky.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish surname
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family name ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
Surnames of Jewish origin
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Yiddish-language surnames ⓘ |
| familyName |
Shulman
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Shulman ⓘ Shulman ⓘ Shulman ⓘ Shulman ⓘ Shulman ⓘ Shulman ⓘ Shulman ⓘ Shulman ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrigin | Jewish people ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Hebrew
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Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Alex Shulman
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Alix Kates Shulman ⓘ David Shulman ⓘ Irving Shulman ⓘ Lee Shulman ⓘ Mark Shulman ⓘ Marshall D. Shulman ⓘ Max Shulman ⓘ Milton Shulman ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Schulman
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linked to:
Shulman
Schulmann ⓘ
linked to:
Shulman
Shulmann ⓘ
linked to:
Shulman
Shulmanov ⓘ |
| occupation |
children's writer
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diplomat ⓘ educational psychologist ⓘ feminist ⓘ humorist ⓘ indologist ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ philologist ⓘ writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| usedInCulture |
Ashkenazi Jewish culture
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linked to:
Ashkenazi tradition
|
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: Shulman Description of subject: Shulman is a surname of Jewish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as literature, academia, and the arts.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.