Meir Shalev
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Meir Shalev was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and columnist known for his richly imaginative Hebrew prose that blends biblical motifs with modern Israeli life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meir Shalev canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4759822 — 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: Meir Shalev Context triple: [Modern Hebrew literature, hasNotableAuthor, Meir Shalev]
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A.
Eliyahu Sasson
Eliyahu Sasson was an Israeli politician and diplomat who played a significant role in the early political institutions of the State of Israel.
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B.
Aharon Katzir
Aharon Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and pioneering researcher in the electrochemistry of biopolymers who became one of Israel’s most prominent scientists before his assassination in 1972.
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C.
Elazar Granot
Elazar Granot was an Israeli politician and leader associated with the left-wing Mapam party, known for his role in shaping the party’s socialist and Zionist agenda.
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D.
Shmuel Tamir
Shmuel Tamir was an Israeli lawyer, Irgun fighter, and politician who served as Minister of Justice and was known for his prominent role in right-wing nationalist politics.
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E.
Mordechai Gur
Mordechai Gur was an Israeli general and later Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, best known for leading the paratroopers who entered the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
- 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: Meir Shalev Target entity description: Meir Shalev was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and columnist known for his richly imaginative Hebrew prose that blends biblical motifs with modern Israeli life.
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A.
Eliyahu Sasson
Eliyahu Sasson was an Israeli politician and diplomat who played a significant role in the early political institutions of the State of Israel.
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B.
Aharon Katzir
Aharon Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and pioneering researcher in the electrochemistry of biopolymers who became one of Israel’s most prominent scientists before his assassination in 1972.
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C.
Elazar Granot
Elazar Granot was an Israeli politician and leader associated with the left-wing Mapam party, known for his role in shaping the party’s socialist and Zionist agenda.
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D.
Shmuel Tamir
Shmuel Tamir was an Israeli lawyer, Irgun fighter, and politician who served as Minister of Justice and was known for his prominent role in right-wing nationalist politics.
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E.
Mordechai Gur
Mordechai Gur was an Israeli general and later Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, best known for leading the paratroopers who entered the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Israeli novelist
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columnist ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| columnistFor | Yedioth Ahronoth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1948-07-29 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2023-04-11 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Shalev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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essay ⓘ fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ magical realism ⓘ |
| givenName | Meir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Michael Shalev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Hebrew ⓘ |
| name | Meir Shalev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Hebrew ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Bernstein Prize
NERFINISHED
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National Jewish Book Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Pigeon and a Boy
NERFINISHED
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Esau NERFINISHED ⓘ Four Meals NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blue Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Loves of Judith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
children's writer
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columnist ⓘ essayist ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| parent | Yitzhak Shalev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Nahalal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Jerusalem ⓘ |
| spouse | Tamar Shalev NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs | television presenter ⓘ |
| workedFor | Israel Broadcasting Authority NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
blend of biblical motifs and modern Israeli life
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richly imaginative Hebrew prose ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
Israeli society
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Zionism NERFINISHED ⓘ biblical themes ⓘ |
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: Meir Shalev Description of subject: Meir Shalev was a prominent Israeli novelist, essayist, and columnist known for his richly imaginative Hebrew prose that blends biblical motifs with modern Israeli life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.