Kaminsky
E485979
Kaminsky is the original family surname of American entertainer Danny Kaye, born David Daniel Kaminsky.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Kaminsky canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5002758 — 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: Kaminsky Context triple: [Danny Kaye, familyName, Kaminsky]
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A.
Kamensky
Kamensky is a Russian surname most notably associated with former professional ice hockey player Valeri Kamensky.
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B.
Rothkowitz
Rothkowitz is the original family surname of the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, reflecting his Eastern European Jewish heritage.
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C.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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D.
Lemansky
Lemansky is a central character on the television crime drama "The Shield," known as a member of Vic Mackey’s corrupt Strike Team.
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E.
Rosenbad
Rosenbad is a prominent government building complex in central Stockholm that houses the offices of the Prime Minister and the Swedish Government.
- 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: Kaminsky Target entity description: Kaminsky is the original family surname of American entertainer Danny Kaye, born David Daniel Kaminsky.
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A.
Kamensky
Kamensky is a Russian surname most notably associated with former professional ice hockey player Valeri Kamensky.
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B.
Rothkowitz
Rothkowitz is the original family surname of the abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, reflecting his Eastern European Jewish heritage.
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C.
Zaslofsky
Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
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D.
Lemansky
Lemansky is a central character on the television crime drama "The Shield," known as a member of Vic Mackey’s corrupt Strike Team.
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E.
Rosenbad
Rosenbad is a prominent government building complex in central Stockholm that houses the offices of the Prime Minister and the Swedish Government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| birthName | David Daniel Kaminsky ⓘ |
| familyName | Kaminsky ⓘ |
| hasTransliterationVariant | Каминский ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Kaminski
ⓘ
linked to:
Kamiński
Kaminskii ⓘ
linked to:
Kamiński
Kaminskiy ⓘ
linked to:
Каминский
|
| isEtymologicallyRelatedTo |
Kamien
ⓘ
Kamin ⓘ |
| isOriginalSurnameOf |
Danny Kaye
ⓘ
David Daniel Kaminsky ⓘ |
| isSurnameOf |
Danny Kaye
ⓘ
David Daniel Kaminsky ⓘ |
| isUsedAs |
Jewish surname
ⓘ
Slavic surname ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
Slavic languages
ⓘ
Yiddish ⓘ |
| mayDeriveFrom | word for "stone" in Slavic languages ⓘ |
| usedInCommunity | Ashkenazi Jews ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Poland
ⓘ
Russia ⓘ Ukraine ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Kaminsky Description of subject: Kaminsky is the original family surname of American entertainer Danny Kaye, born David Daniel Kaminsky.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.