Onkel Moses
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Onkel Moses is a Yiddish novel by Sholem Asch that portrays the lives and struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Moses (Onkel Moses) | 1 |
| Onkel Moses canonical | 1 |
| Onkel Mozes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3004932 — 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: Onkel Moses Context triple: [Sholem Asch, notableWork, Onkel Moses]
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A.
Moses the Black
Moses the Black was a 4th-century Ethiopian desert monk and former bandit who became a renowned Christian ascetic and saint among the Desert Fathers.
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B.
Uncle Bob
Uncle Bob is the nickname of Robert C. Martin, a prominent software engineer and author known for his influential work on clean code practices and agile software development.
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C.
Uncle Frank
"Uncle Frank" is a 2020 coming-of-age road trip drama film written and directed by Alan Ball, in which Paul Bettany stars as a closeted gay literature professor confronting his past and family in the American South of the 1970s.
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D.
Uncle Henry
Uncle Henry is Dorothy Gale’s hardworking Kansas farmer uncle who appears as her guardian in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
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E.
Samuel Goldfish
Samuel Goldfish, better known as Samuel Goldwyn, was a pioneering Hollywood film producer and co-founder of several major motion picture studios in the early 20th century.
- 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: Onkel Moses Target entity description: Onkel Moses is a Yiddish novel by Sholem Asch that portrays the lives and struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side.
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A.
Moses the Black
Moses the Black was a 4th-century Ethiopian desert monk and former bandit who became a renowned Christian ascetic and saint among the Desert Fathers.
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B.
Uncle Bob
Uncle Bob is the nickname of Robert C. Martin, a prominent software engineer and author known for his influential work on clean code practices and agile software development.
-
C.
Uncle Frank
"Uncle Frank" is a 2020 coming-of-age road trip drama film written and directed by Alan Ball, in which Paul Bettany stars as a closeted gay literature professor confronting his past and family in the American South of the 1970s.
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D.
Uncle Henry
Uncle Henry is Dorothy Gale’s hardworking Kansas farmer uncle who appears as her guardian in L. Frank Baum’s Oz series.
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E.
Samuel Goldfish
Samuel Goldfish, better known as Samuel Goldwyn, was a pioneering Hollywood film producer and co-founder of several major motion picture studios in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Yiddish-language literary work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Sholem Asch ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| depictsCommunity | Eastern European Jewish immigrants ⓘ |
| genre |
immigrant fiction
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novel ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm | prose ⓘ |
| language | Yiddish ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Yiddish realism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | early 20th-century Yiddish literature ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
Jewish immigrant experience in America
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assimilation and cultural identity ⓘ labor and sweatshop conditions ⓘ power and exploitation within immigrant communities ⓘ struggles of Jewish immigrants ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narrative ⓘ |
| portrays |
conflict between old-world traditions and new-world life
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lives of Jewish garment workers ⓘ social and economic hardships of immigrants ⓘ |
| protagonist |
Moses (Onkel Moses)
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linked to:
Onkel Moses
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| settingLocation |
Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City
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linked to:
Lower East Side
New York City ⓘ |
| targetAudience | Yiddish-speaking readers ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Onkel Moses Description of subject: Onkel Moses is a Yiddish novel by Sholem Asch that portrays the lives and struggles of Jewish immigrants in New York’s Lower East Side.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Onkel Moses