Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda
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Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda was a prominent 16th-century Safed rabbi and kabbalist, known especially for his influential commentaries on rabbinic and ethical texts.
All labels observed (1)
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| Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6246001 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda Context triple: [Old Cemetery of Safed, hasGraveOf, Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda]
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Moses de León
Moses de León was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and writer traditionally credited with composing or compiling the core text of the Zohar, a foundational work of Kabbalah.
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B.
Rabbi Abraham ben David
Rabbi Abraham ben David, also known as the Ravad of Posquières, was a prominent 12th-century Provençal Talmudist and halakhic authority best known for his critical glosses on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah and his influential contributions to medieval Jewish scholarship and mysticism.
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C.
Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
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D.
Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak
Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak, known by the acronym Rashi, was an 11th-century French rabbi and one of Judaism’s most influential biblical and Talmudic commentators.
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E.
Rabbi Ben Ezra
"Rabbi Ben Ezra" is a reflective philosophical poem by Robert Browning that explores aging, faith, and the spiritual meaning of human life.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda Target entity description: Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda was a prominent 16th-century Safed rabbi and kabbalist, known especially for his influential commentaries on rabbinic and ethical texts.
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A.
Moses de León
Moses de León was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and writer traditionally credited with composing or compiling the core text of the Zohar, a foundational work of Kabbalah.
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B.
Rabbi Abraham ben David
Rabbi Abraham ben David, also known as the Ravad of Posquières, was a prominent 12th-century Provençal Talmudist and halakhic authority best known for his critical glosses on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah and his influential contributions to medieval Jewish scholarship and mysticism.
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C.
Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
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D.
Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak
Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak, known by the acronym Rashi, was an 11th-century French rabbi and one of Judaism’s most influential biblical and Talmudic commentators.
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E.
Rabbi Ben Ezra
"Rabbi Ben Ezra" is a reflective philosophical poem by Robert Browning that explores aging, faith, and the spiritual meaning of human life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jewish scholar
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kabbalist ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| century | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| era | post-medieval Jewish scholarship ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jewish people
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linked to:
Jews
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| fieldOfWork |
Jewish ethics
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Jewish law ⓘ Kabbalah ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Hebrew ⓘ |
| movement | Safed Kabbalah ⓘ |
| notableWork |
commentary on ethical texts
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commentary on rabbinic texts ⓘ |
| occupation |
commentator on rabbinic texts
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kabbalist ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Safed ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Safed ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
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: Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda Description of subject: Rabbi Shmuel de Uceda was a prominent 16th-century Safed rabbi and kabbalist, known especially for his influential commentaries on rabbinic and ethical texts.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.