Yehuda Bauer
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Yehuda Bauer is an Israeli historian and leading Holocaust scholar renowned for his extensive research on genocide, antisemitism, and Holocaust education.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yehuda Bauer canonical | 11 |
| Yehuda Bauer is a Holocaust historian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1617881 — 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: Yehuda Bauer Context triple: [Olof Palme Prize, hasAwarded, Yehuda Bauer]
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A.
Menachem Ussishkin
Menachem Ussishkin was a prominent Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund who played a central role in promoting Jewish settlement and land acquisition in Palestine in the early 20th century.
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B.
Shlomo Ganzfried
Shlomo Ganzfried was a 19th-century Hungarian rabbi and halachic authority best known for composing the widely used concise code of Jewish law, the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
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C.
Mordechai Bentov
Mordechai Bentov was an Israeli politician and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served in several ministerial roles in the early years of the state.
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D.
Meir Argov
Meir Argov was an Israeli politician and Zionist activist who served as a member of Israel’s first legislative bodies and played a role in the country’s early political development.
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E.
Avraham Katznelson
Avraham Katznelson was a Zionist leader and physician who played a significant role in the political foundations of the State of Israel.
- 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: Yehuda Bauer Target entity description: Yehuda Bauer is an Israeli historian and leading Holocaust scholar renowned for his extensive research on genocide, antisemitism, and Holocaust education.
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A.
Menachem Ussishkin
Menachem Ussishkin was a prominent Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund who played a central role in promoting Jewish settlement and land acquisition in Palestine in the early 20th century.
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B.
Shlomo Ganzfried
Shlomo Ganzfried was a 19th-century Hungarian rabbi and halachic authority best known for composing the widely used concise code of Jewish law, the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch.
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C.
Mordechai Bentov
Mordechai Bentov was an Israeli politician and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served in several ministerial roles in the early years of the state.
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D.
Meir Argov
Meir Argov was an Israeli politician and Zionist activist who served as a member of Israel’s first legislative bodies and played a role in the country’s early political development.
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E.
Avraham Katznelson
Avraham Katznelson was a Zionist leader and physician who played a significant role in the political foundations of the State of Israel.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Holocaust scholar
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historian ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Holocaust education policy
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genocide prevention discourse ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Israel Prize for history
ⓘ
linked to:
Israel Prize
|
| citizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Czechoslovakia ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Israel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-04-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cardiff University
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Hebrew University of Jerusalem ⓘ |
| employer |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
ⓘ
Yad Vashem ⓘ
linked to:
YadVashem
|
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish people
ⓘ
linked to:
Jews
|
| familyName | Bauer ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Holocaust education
ⓘ
Holocaust studies ⓘ Jewish history ⓘ antisemitism studies ⓘ genocide studies ⓘ |
| genre |
historical research
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Yehuda ⓘ |
| hasAcademicRank | professor emeritus ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf |
International Council of Yad Vashem
ⓘ
advisory bodies on Holocaust education ⓘ |
| movement |
Holocaust remembrance movement
ⓘ
linked to:
Holocaust remembrance
|
| name | Yehuda Bauer ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Holocaust education
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research on antisemitism ⓘ research on genocide ⓘ research on the Holocaust ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Holocaust as a unique but not exclusive genocide ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A History of the Holocaust
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Jews for Sale? Nazi–Jewish Negotiations, 1933–1945 ⓘ Rethinking the Holocaust ⓘ The Holocaust in Historical Perspective ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
ⓘ
researcher ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Prague ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Academic advisor to Yad Vashem
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Professor of Holocaust Studies ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Institute of Contemporary Jewry ⓘ |
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: Yehuda Bauer Description of subject: Yehuda Bauer is an Israeli historian and leading Holocaust scholar renowned for his extensive research on genocide, antisemitism, and Holocaust education.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.