Eleazar of Worms
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Eleazar of Worms was a prominent 12th–13th century German Jewish mystic, Talmudist, and poet, known as a leading figure of the Hasidei Ashkenaz movement.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleazar of Worms canonical | 3 |
| Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg | 2 |
| Elazar of Worms | 1 |
| Eleazar ben Judah of Worms | 1 |
| Rabbi Eleazar ben Judah of Worms | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8279867 — 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: Eleazar of Worms Context triple: [Eleazar, hasNotableBearer, Eleazar of Worms]
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A.
Rabbi Amnon of Mainz
Rabbi Amnon of Mainz is a semi-legendary medieval Jewish figure traditionally associated with the authorship and martyrdom story behind the High Holiday prayer "Unetaneh Tokef."
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B.
Hayyim Vital
Hayyim Vital was a prominent 16th-century Kabbalist, best known as the chief disciple and recorder of the teachings of Isaac Luria, which became foundational for later Jewish mysticism.
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C.
Meir Zarchi
Meir Zarchi is an Israeli-American filmmaker best known for writing and directing the controversial 1978 exploitation horror film "I Spit on Your Grave."
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D.
Simon Alfasi
Simon Alfasi is an Israeli politician who has served as the long-time mayor of the city of Yokneam Illit.
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E.
Rabbi Vidal of Tolosa
Rabbi Vidal of Tolosa was a prominent 14th-century Spanish Talmudist and halakhic authority best known for his influential commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah.
- 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: Eleazar of Worms Target entity description: Eleazar of Worms was a prominent 12th–13th century German Jewish mystic, Talmudist, and poet, known as a leading figure of the Hasidei Ashkenaz movement.
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A.
Rabbi Amnon of Mainz
Rabbi Amnon of Mainz is a semi-legendary medieval Jewish figure traditionally associated with the authorship and martyrdom story behind the High Holiday prayer "Unetaneh Tokef."
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B.
Hayyim Vital
Hayyim Vital was a prominent 16th-century Kabbalist, best known as the chief disciple and recorder of the teachings of Isaac Luria, which became foundational for later Jewish mysticism.
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C.
Meir Zarchi
Meir Zarchi is an Israeli-American filmmaker best known for writing and directing the controversial 1978 exploitation horror film "I Spit on Your Grave."
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D.
Simon Alfasi
Simon Alfasi is an Israeli politician who has served as the long-time mayor of the city of Yokneam Illit.
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E.
Rabbi Vidal of Tolosa
Rabbi Vidal of Tolosa was a prominent 14th-century Spanish Talmudist and halakhic authority best known for his influential commentary on Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hasidei Ashkenaz leader
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Hebrew poet ⓘ person ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Electorate of Mainz
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linked to:
Prince-Archbishopric of Mainz
Holy Roman Empire ⓘ Mainz ⓘ |
| birthYear | c. 1176 ⓘ |
| century |
12th century
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13th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Holy Roman Empire
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Worms ⓘ |
| deathYear | c. 1238 ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicity |
Ashkenazi Jew
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linked to:
Ashkenazi Jews
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| fieldOfWork |
Jewish law
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Jewish mysticism ⓘ Kabbalah ⓘ ethics ⓘ liturgical poetry ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ashkenazi pietism
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later Kabbalists ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Hasidei Ashkenaz tradition
ⓘ
Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg ⓘ
linked to:
Eleazar of Worms
|
| language |
Aramaic
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German ⓘ Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf | Hasidei Ashkenaz ⓘ |
| movement | Hasidei Ashkenaz ⓘ |
| name |
Eleazar ben Judah of Worms
ⓘ
linked to:
Eleazar of Worms
Eleazar of Worms ⓘ Rabbi Eleazar ben Judah of Worms ⓘ
linked to:
Eleazar of Worms
|
| notableWork |
Sefer ha-Chayyim
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Sefer ha-Rokeach ⓘ Sefer ha-Shem ⓘ piyyutim ⓘ |
| occupation |
Jewish mystic
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Talmudist ⓘ commentator ⓘ halakhist ⓘ poet ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Mainz
ⓘ
Worms ⓘ |
| studentOf |
Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg
ⓘ
linked to:
Eleazar of Worms
Judah the Pious ⓘ
linked to:
Rabbi Judah the Pious
|
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: Eleazar of Worms Description of subject: Eleazar of Worms was a prominent 12th–13th century German Jewish mystic, Talmudist, and poet, known as a leading figure of the Hasidei Ashkenaz movement.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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