Yosef Albo
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Yosef Albo was a 15th-century Spanish Jewish philosopher and rabbi best known for his work "Sefer ha-Ikkarim" ("Book of Principles"), a major treatise on Jewish dogma and theology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yosef Albo canonical | 3 |
| R. Yosef Albo | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6870840 — 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: Yosef Albo Context triple: [Joseph Albo, name, Yosef Albo]
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A.
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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B.
R. Moshe Alshich
R. Moshe Alshich was a prominent 16th-century rabbi and biblical commentator, best known for his influential homiletic and exegetical works on the Torah and Prophets.
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C.
Hasdai Crescas
Hasdai Crescas was a medieval Spanish-Jewish philosopher and rabbi known for his influential critiques of Aristotelianism and his major work "Or Hashem" ("Light of the Lord").
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D.
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto was an 18th-century Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and ethicist best known for his influential mussar work Mesillat Yesharim and other foundational texts in Jewish thought.
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E.
Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
- 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: Yosef Albo
Target entity description: Yosef Albo was a 15th-century Spanish Jewish philosopher and rabbi best known for his work "Sefer ha-Ikkarim" ("Book of Principles"), a major treatise on Jewish dogma and theology.
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A.
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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B.
R. Moshe Alshich
R. Moshe Alshich was a prominent 16th-century rabbi and biblical commentator, best known for his influential homiletic and exegetical works on the Torah and Prophets.
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C.
Hasdai Crescas
Hasdai Crescas was a medieval Spanish-Jewish philosopher and rabbi known for his influential critiques of Aristotelianism and his major work "Or Hashem" ("Light of the Lord").
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D.
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto was an 18th-century Italian Jewish rabbi, kabbalist, and ethicist best known for his influential mussar work Mesillat Yesharim and other foundational texts in Jewish thought.
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E.
Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Yosef Albo
Description of subject: Yosef Albo was a 15th-century Spanish Jewish philosopher and rabbi best known for his work "Sefer ha-Ikkarim" ("Book of Principles"), a major treatise on Jewish dogma and theology.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.