Sol Nazerman
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Sol Nazerman is the tormented Holocaust survivor and emotionally detached pawnbroker at the center of the 1964 film "The Pawnbroker."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sol Nazerman canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2583289 — 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: Sol Nazerman Context triple: [Rod Steiger, portrayed, Sol Nazerman]
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A.
Aharon Zisling
Aharon Zisling was an Israeli politician and activist, a leader of the left-wing Ahdut HaAvoda party and one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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C.
Victor Kugler
Victor Kugler was one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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D.
Arkady Rosengolts
Arkady Rosengolts was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and high-ranking official who later became a victim of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after being convicted in the 1938 Moscow show trial known as the Trial of the Twenty-One.
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E.
Meyer Suchowljansky
Meyer Suchowljansky, better known as Meyer Lansky, was a major organized crime figure in the United States who helped develop the National Crime Syndicate and became known as the "Mob's Accountant."
- 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: Sol Nazerman Target entity description: Sol Nazerman is the tormented Holocaust survivor and emotionally detached pawnbroker at the center of the 1964 film "The Pawnbroker."
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A.
Aharon Zisling
Aharon Zisling was an Israeli politician and activist, a leader of the left-wing Ahdut HaAvoda party and one of the signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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B.
Max Zaslofsky
Max Zaslofsky was an American professional basketball player and coach, best known as one of the NBA’s early scoring stars and later a coach in the league.
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C.
Victor Kugler
Victor Kugler was one of the Dutch helpers who risked his life to hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
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D.
Arkady Rosengolts
Arkady Rosengolts was a Soviet Bolshevik revolutionary and high-ranking official who later became a victim of Stalin’s Great Purge, executed after being convicted in the 1938 Moscow show trial known as the Trial of the Twenty-One.
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E.
Meyer Suchowljansky
Meyer Suchowljansky, better known as Meyer Lansky, was a major organized crime figure in the United States who helped develop the National Crime Syndicate and became known as the "Mob's Accountant."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| adaptedBy | Sidney Lumet ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Pawnbroker ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Pawnbroker (novel)
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linked to:
The Pawnbroker
|
| businessLocation | Harlem ⓘ |
| characterArc | confronts repressed trauma ⓘ |
| cityOfResidence | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Edward Lewis Wallant ⓘ |
| describedAs |
Holocaust survivor
ⓘ
emotionally detached ⓘ tormented ⓘ |
| emotionalState |
alienated
ⓘ
disconnected from others ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | drama film ⓘ |
| hasBackstoryElement | family killed in the Holocaust ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Holocaust trauma
ⓘ
emotional repression ⓘ survivor guilt ⓘ |
| hasTraumaFrom |
Nazi concentration camps
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linked to:
Nazi camp system
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| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Pawnbroker ⓘ |
| occupation | pawnbroker ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Rod Steiger ⓘ |
| religion | Jewish ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | postwar New York City ⓘ |
| survivedEvent | Holocaust ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1964 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Sol Nazerman Description of subject: Sol Nazerman is the tormented Holocaust survivor and emotionally detached pawnbroker at the center of the 1964 film "The Pawnbroker."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.