Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon
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Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon was a prominent 13th-century Jewish astronomer and translator in Provence, known for his influential Latin translations of Arabic scientific works.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16080845 — 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: Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon Context triple: [Ibn Tibbon family, hasPart, Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon]
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Moses ibn Tibbon
Moses ibn Tibbon was a 13th-century Provençal Jewish physician and translator renowned for rendering major Arabic philosophical and scientific works, including those of Maimonides, into Hebrew.
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Samuel ibn Tibbon
Samuel ibn Tibbon was a medieval Jewish philosopher and translator best known for rendering Maimonides’ works, especially the Guide for the Perplexed, from Arabic into Hebrew, thereby shaping Jewish intellectual history.
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Judah ibn Tibbon
Judah ibn Tibbon was a 12th-century Jewish physician and pioneering translator in Provence, renowned for rendering major Arabic Jewish philosophical and religious works into Hebrew.
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Abraham Abulafia
Abraham Abulafia was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher who founded an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah focused on meditation, letter permutations, and prophetic experience.
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E.
Ibn al-Bayṭār
Ibn al-Bayṭār was a 13th-century Andalusian Arab botanist, pharmacist, and physician renowned for his comprehensive works on medicinal plants and pharmacology.
- 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: Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon Target entity description: Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon was a prominent 13th-century Jewish astronomer and translator in Provence, known for his influential Latin translations of Arabic scientific works.
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A.
Moses ibn Tibbon
Moses ibn Tibbon was a 13th-century Provençal Jewish physician and translator renowned for rendering major Arabic philosophical and scientific works, including those of Maimonides, into Hebrew.
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B.
Samuel ibn Tibbon
Samuel ibn Tibbon was a medieval Jewish philosopher and translator best known for rendering Maimonides’ works, especially the Guide for the Perplexed, from Arabic into Hebrew, thereby shaping Jewish intellectual history.
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C.
Judah ibn Tibbon
Judah ibn Tibbon was a 12th-century Jewish physician and pioneering translator in Provence, renowned for rendering major Arabic Jewish philosophical and religious works into Hebrew.
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D.
Abraham Abulafia
Abraham Abulafia was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher who founded an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah focused on meditation, letter permutations, and prophetic experience.
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E.
Ibn al-Bayṭār
Ibn al-Bayṭār was a 13th-century Andalusian Arab botanist, pharmacist, and physician renowned for his comprehensive works on medicinal plants and pharmacology.
- F. None of above. chosen
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