Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit)
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16th-century rabbi
Jewish legal scholar
Ottoman rabbi
Talmudic scholar
halachic authority
posek
rabbi
Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit) was a prominent 16th-century rabbi, halachic authority, and Talmudic scholar of Safed, renowned for his influential responsa and legal works.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6246003 — 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: Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit) Context triple: [Old Cemetery of Safed, hasGraveOf, Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit)]
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Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever was a leading 19th-century Orthodox rabbi and early Zionist pioneer who helped lay the ideological and organizational foundations of religious Zionism.
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B.
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbi and halachic authority, best known as the head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem and for his influential Torah scholarship.
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C.
Rabbi David HaLevi Segal
Rabbi David HaLevi Segal was a prominent 17th-century Polish rabbi and halachic authority best known for his influential Talmudic and legal commentary "Turei Zahav" (Taz) on the Shulchan Aruch.
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D.
Rabbi Shalom Messas
Rabbi Shalom Messas was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbinic authority who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco and later as Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, known for his extensive halachic writings and leadership.
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E.
Rabbi Akiva Eiger
Rabbi Akiva Eiger was a preeminent 18th–19th century Ashkenazi rabbi and Talmudic scholar, renowned for his incisive halachic responsa and commentaries that became central to later rabbinic study.
- 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: Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit) Target entity description: Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit) was a prominent 16th-century rabbi, halachic authority, and Talmudic scholar of Safed, renowned for his influential responsa and legal works.
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A.
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever
Rabbi Shmuel Mohilever was a leading 19th-century Orthodox rabbi and early Zionist pioneer who helped lay the ideological and organizational foundations of religious Zionism.
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B.
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul
Rabbi Ben Zion Abba Shaul was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbi and halachic authority, best known as the head of the Porat Yosef Yeshiva in Jerusalem and for his influential Torah scholarship.
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C.
Rabbi David HaLevi Segal
Rabbi David HaLevi Segal was a prominent 17th-century Polish rabbi and halachic authority best known for his influential Talmudic and legal commentary "Turei Zahav" (Taz) on the Shulchan Aruch.
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D.
Rabbi Shalom Messas
Rabbi Shalom Messas was a prominent 20th-century Sephardic rabbinic authority who served as Chief Rabbi of Morocco and later as Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, known for his extensive halachic writings and leadership.
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E.
Rabbi Akiva Eiger
Rabbi Akiva Eiger was a preeminent 18th–19th century Ashkenazi rabbi and Talmudic scholar, renowned for his incisive halachic responsa and commentaries that became central to later rabbinic study.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century rabbi
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Jewish legal scholar ⓘ Ottoman rabbi ⓘ Talmudic scholar ⓘ halachic authority ⓘ posek ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| activeIn | Safed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Salonika
NERFINISHED
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Thessaloniki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Moshe Cordovero
NERFINISHED
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Shlomo Alkabetz NERFINISHED ⓘ Yosef Karo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCountry | Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Safed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | post-medieval rabbinic era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Sephardi Jew ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Halakha
NERFINISHED
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Jewish law ⓘ Talmud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Mabit
NERFINISHED
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Maharam Trani the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
halachic code
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philosophical-theological treatise ⓘ responsa literature ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ottoman Jewish communities
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later Sephardi halachic authorities ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Talmudic scholarship
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halachic responsa ⓘ rabbinic leadership in Safed ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Hebrew ⓘ |
| legalStatus | major authority in practical halakha ⓘ |
| movement | Rabbinic Judaism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
dayan
NERFINISHED
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rabbi of Safed ⓘ rosh yeshiva ⓘ |
| partOf | Safed rabbinic circle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Safed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionWithinJudaism | Sephardi halachic tradition ⓘ |
| wrote |
Beit Elohim
NERFINISHED
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Kiryat Sefer NERFINISHED ⓘ Responsa Mabit NERFINISHED ⓘ Sefer Mabit (responsa) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit) Description of subject: Rabbi Moshe Trani (Mabit) was a prominent 16th-century rabbi, halachic authority, and Talmudic scholar of Safed, renowned for his influential responsa and legal works.
Referenced by (1)
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