Bernard Weil
E484434
Bernard Weil was the father of French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, belonging to the Weil family of intellectuals in early 20th-century France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bernard Weil canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4929110 — 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: Bernard Weil Context triple: [Simone Weil, father, Bernard Weil]
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A.
Bernard Weiss
Bernard Weiss is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Weiss.
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B.
Maurice Ostrer
Maurice Ostrer was a British film executive best known for leading and shaping the output of the prominent mid-20th-century studio Gainsborough Pictures.
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C.
Bernard Drachman
Bernard Drachman was an American Orthodox rabbi and scholar who played a key role in shaping modern Jewish education and religious life in the United States.
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D.
Louis Finkelstein
Louis Finkelstein was a prominent American Conservative rabbi and scholar who served as a long-time leader and chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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E.
Joseph Wertheim
Joseph Wertheim is one of the children of American investment banker and philanthropist Maurice Wertheim.
- 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: Bernard Weil Target entity description: Bernard Weil was the father of French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, belonging to the Weil family of intellectuals in early 20th-century France.
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A.
Bernard Weiss
Bernard Weiss is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the surname Weiss.
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B.
Maurice Ostrer
Maurice Ostrer was a British film executive best known for leading and shaping the output of the prominent mid-20th-century studio Gainsborough Pictures.
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C.
Bernard Drachman
Bernard Drachman was an American Orthodox rabbi and scholar who played a key role in shaping modern Jewish education and religious life in the United States.
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D.
Louis Finkelstein
Louis Finkelstein was a prominent American Conservative rabbi and scholar who served as a long-time leader and chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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E.
Joseph Wertheim
Joseph Wertheim is one of the children of American investment banker and philanthropist Maurice Wertheim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | early 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish people
ⓘ
linked to:
Jews
|
| familyName | Weil ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
André Weil
ⓘ
Simone Weil ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | medicine ⓘ |
| givenName | Bernard ⓘ |
| hasChild |
André Weil
ⓘ
Simone Weil ⓘ |
| hasReligion | secular Judaism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
French ⓘ German ⓘ |
| livedIn | France ⓘ |
| memberOf | Weil family ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
André Weil
ⓘ
Salomea Reinherz ⓘ Simone Weil ⓘ |
| occupation | physician ⓘ |
| partOf | French intellectual milieu ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Paris ⓘ |
| spouse | Salomea Reinherz ⓘ |
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: Bernard Weil Description of subject: Bernard Weil was the father of French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, belonging to the Weil family of intellectuals in early 20th-century France.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.