Meir
E175747
Meir is a Hebrew surname most famously borne by Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1549109 — 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: Meir Context triple: [Golda Meir, familyName, Meir]
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A.
Shlomo
Shlomo is the Hebrew name for King Solomon, the biblical monarch renowned for his wisdom, wealth, and the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem.
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B.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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C.
Shimon
Shimon is a given name most notably borne by Shimon Peres, the former President and Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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D.
Ze'ev
Ze'ev is a Hebrew given name meaning "wolf," commonly used in Israel and among Jewish communities worldwide.
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E.
Chaim
Chaim is a given name notably borne by Chaim Weizmann, the first President of the State of Israel and a prominent Zionist leader and chemist.
- 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: Meir Target entity description: Meir is a Hebrew surname most famously borne by Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel.
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A.
Shlomo
Shlomo is the Hebrew name for King Solomon, the biblical monarch renowned for his wisdom, wealth, and the construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem.
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B.
Shmuel
Shmuel is the Hebrew form of the biblical name Samuel, commonly used in Jewish religious and cultural contexts.
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C.
Shimon
Shimon is a given name most notably borne by Shimon Peres, the former President and Prime Minister of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
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D.
Ze'ev
Ze'ev is a Hebrew given name meaning "wolf," commonly used in Israel and among Jewish communities worldwide.
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E.
Chaim
Chaim is a given name notably borne by Chaim Weizmann, the first President of the State of Israel and a prominent Zionist leader and chemist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hebrew-language surname
ⓘ
human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1898-05-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1978-12-08 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ |
| etymologyRoot | Hebrew verb מאיר (me’ir) meaning "to give light" ⓘ |
| familyName | Meir ⓘ |
| givenName |
Golda
ⓘ
linked to:
Golda Mabovitch
|
| hasGenderForm | unisex surname ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | Mandatory Palestine ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Hebrew ⓘ |
| meaning |
illuminates
ⓘ
one who shines ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Alignment
ⓘ
Mapai ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Golda Meir ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the first female heads of government in the modern era
ⓘ
leadership of Israel during the Yom Kippur War ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 4th Prime Minister of Israel ⓘ |
| otherName |
Golda Meyerson
ⓘ
linked to:
Golda Meir
|
| placeOfBirth | Kyiv ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Prime Minister of Israel ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
Land of Israel
ⓘ
linked to:
Eretz HaKodesh
|
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Jerusalem
ⓘ
Tel Aviv ⓘ |
| script | Hebrew alphabet ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Morris Meyerson ⓘ |
| transliterationOf |
מאיר
ⓘ
linked to:
Meir
|
| usedAs |
family name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| usedBy | Jews ⓘ |
| variantForm |
Maier
ⓘ
linked to:
Meier
Meier ⓘ Meyer ⓘ |
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: Meir Description of subject: Meir is a Hebrew surname most famously borne by Golda Meir, the former Prime Minister of Israel.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.