Elisha Wiesel
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Elisha Wiesel is an American financier and philanthropist, best known as the son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and for his long career at Goldman Sachs, where he served as Chief Information Officer.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elisha Wiesel canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1487808 — 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: Elisha Wiesel Context triple: [Eliezer Wiesel, child, Elisha Wiesel]
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A.
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born Jewish writer, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate best known for his memoir "Night" and his lifelong advocacy for human rights and remembrance of the Holocaust.
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B.
Marion Wiesel
Marion Wiesel is a translator, editor, and activist best known for translating many of Elie Wiesel’s works and for her involvement in Holocaust remembrance and human rights causes.
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C.
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian Jewish writer and Nobel Prize laureate whose works, especially his novel "Fatelessness," explore the trauma and absurdity of the Holocaust and totalitarianism.
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D.
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch was a prominent Polish-Jewish writer best known for his Yiddish novels and plays that explored Jewish life, tradition, and modernity in the early 20th century.
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E.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
- 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: Elisha Wiesel Target entity description: Elisha Wiesel is an American financier and philanthropist, best known as the son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and for his long career at Goldman Sachs, where he served as Chief Information Officer.
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A.
Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel was a Romanian-born Jewish writer, Holocaust survivor, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate best known for his memoir "Night" and his lifelong advocacy for human rights and remembrance of the Holocaust.
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B.
Marion Wiesel
Marion Wiesel is a translator, editor, and activist best known for translating many of Elie Wiesel’s works and for her involvement in Holocaust remembrance and human rights causes.
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C.
Imre Kertész
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian Jewish writer and Nobel Prize laureate whose works, especially his novel "Fatelessness," explore the trauma and absurdity of the Holocaust and totalitarianism.
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D.
Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch was a prominent Polish-Jewish writer best known for his Yiddish novels and plays that explored Jewish life, tradition, and modernity in the early 20th century.
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E.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
financier
ⓘ
human ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Yale University
ⓘ
Yeshiva University ⓘ
surface form:
Yeshiva University High School for Boys
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| employer | Goldman Sachs ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish people
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| familyName |
Elie Wiesel
ⓘ
surface form:
Wiesel
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| fieldOfWork |
finance
ⓘ
information technology management ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity |
financial services
ⓘ
philanthropy ⓘ |
| givenName | Elisha ⓘ |
| hasChild | two children ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leadership roles at Goldman Sachs
ⓘ
philanthropic work ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf | board of trustees of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity ⓘ |
| name | Elisha Wiesel self-link ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Wiesel family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of Elie Wiesel
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career at Goldman Sachs ⓘ public speaking on Holocaust remembrance and Jewish identity ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership in technology strategy at Goldman Sachs ⓘ |
| occupation |
financier
ⓘ
philanthropist ⓘ |
| parent |
Elie Wiesel
ⓘ
Marion Wiesel ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Jewish communal and philanthropic initiatives ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief Information Officer of Goldman Sachs ⓘ |
| relative |
Elie Wiesel
ⓘ
Marion Wiesel ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Lynn Wiesel ⓘ |
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: Elisha Wiesel Description of subject: Elisha Wiesel is an American financier and philanthropist, best known as the son of Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and for his long career at Goldman Sachs, where he served as Chief Information Officer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.