Bathsheba Zylberman
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Bathsheba Zylberman was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and a formative influence from his traditional Jewish family background.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bathsheba Zylberman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T685235 — 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: Bathsheba Zylberman Context triple: [Isaac Bashevis Singer, mother, Bathsheba Zylberman]
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A.
Shoshanna Shapiro
Shoshanna Shapiro is a bubbly, fast-talking, and naive yet increasingly self-assured young woman featured as one of the core friends navigating adulthood in the TV series "Girls."
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B.
Harriette Levine
Harriette Levine was the wife of American lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor.
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C.
Esther Raab
Esther Raab was a Jewish Holocaust survivor known for escaping from the Sobibor extermination camp and later bearing witness to its atrocities.
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D.
Beatrice Silverman
Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
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E.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
- 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: Bathsheba Zylberman Target entity description: Bathsheba Zylberman was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and a formative influence from his traditional Jewish family background.
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A.
Shoshanna Shapiro
Shoshanna Shapiro is a bubbly, fast-talking, and naive yet increasingly self-assured young woman featured as one of the core friends navigating adulthood in the TV series "Girls."
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B.
Harriette Levine
Harriette Levine was the wife of American lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor.
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C.
Esther Raab
Esther Raab was a Jewish Holocaust survivor known for escaping from the Sobibor extermination camp and later bearing witness to its atrocities.
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D.
Beatrice Silverman
Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
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E.
Gertrude Blugerman
Gertrude Blugerman was the first wife of renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov, to whom he was married from 1942 until their divorce in 1973.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish woman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| describedIn | autobiographical writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jews ⓘ |
| familyName | Zylberman ⓘ |
| givenName | Bathsheba ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Esther Kreitman
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Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ Israel Joshua Singer ⓘ |
| hasRole | mother ⓘ |
| influenced | Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Israel Joshua Singer ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Yiddish ⓘ |
| notableFor | influence on Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ |
| notableWork | inspiration for maternal characters in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s fiction ⓘ |
| partOf | traditional Jewish family background of Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
Leoncin
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Warsaw ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Pinchas Menachem Singer
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Pinchas Menachem Zinger ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | rabbi ⓘ |
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: Bathsheba Zylberman Description of subject: Bathsheba Zylberman was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and a formative influence from his traditional Jewish family background.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.