Yasha Mazur
E425073
Yasha Mazur is the conflicted Jewish magician and acrobat at the center of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel, whose personal struggles with faith, love, and morality drive the story’s tragic arc.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yasha Mazur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4205939 — 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: Yasha Mazur Context triple: [The Magician of Lublin, mainCharacter, Yasha Mazur]
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A.
Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch is a French physicist and mathematician renowned for his contributions to fluid dynamics and turbulence theory.
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B.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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C.
Michael Shvo
Michael Shvo is a high-profile real estate developer and art collector known for leading luxury property projects in major global cities.
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D.
Ari Benjamin Meyers
Ari Benjamin Meyers is a contemporary composer and artist known for his experimental works that blur the boundaries between music, performance, and visual art.
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E.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
- 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: Yasha Mazur Target entity description: Yasha Mazur is the conflicted Jewish magician and acrobat at the center of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel, whose personal struggles with faith, love, and morality drive the story’s tragic arc.
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A.
Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch is a French physicist and mathematician renowned for his contributions to fluid dynamics and turbulence theory.
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B.
Max Zaritsky
Max Zaritsky was an American labor leader and union organizer who played a key role in the early development of industrial unionism in the United States.
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C.
Michael Shvo
Michael Shvo is a high-profile real estate developer and art collector known for leading luxury property projects in major global cities.
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D.
Ari Benjamin Meyers
Ari Benjamin Meyers is a contemporary composer and artist known for his experimental works that blur the boundaries between music, performance, and visual art.
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E.
Sam Zussman
Sam Zussman is a sports and media executive who serves as a top business leader for the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| appearsInWork | The Magician of Lublin ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
struggle with faith
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struggle with love ⓘ struggle with morality ⓘ |
| createdBy | Isaac Bashevis Singer ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
guilt
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identity crisis ⓘ infidelity ⓘ redemption ⓘ religious doubt ⓘ temptation ⓘ |
| firstPublishedInLanguage | Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasEthnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| hasGenreContext |
Jewish literature
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psychological novel ⓘ tragic novel ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Yiddish ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
acrobat
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magician ⓘ |
| hasReligion | Judaism ⓘ |
| hasSetting | Lublin ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
charismatic
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conflicted ⓘ morally torn ⓘ restless ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | drives tragic arc of the story ⓘ |
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: Yasha Mazur Description of subject: Yasha Mazur is the conflicted Jewish magician and acrobat at the center of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s novel, whose personal struggles with faith, love, and morality drive the story’s tragic arc.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.