Mordechai Hod
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Mordechai Hod was an Israeli Air Force general best known for leading and modernizing Israel’s air power, including during the pivotal 1967 Six-Day War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mordechai Hod canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6532475 — 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: Mordechai Hod Context triple: [Operation Boxer, commander, Mordechai Hod]
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A.
Mordechai Bentov
Mordechai Bentov was an Israeli politician and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served in several ministerial roles in the early years of the state.
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B.
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.
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C.
Haim-Moshe Shapira
Haim-Moshe Shapira was a prominent Israeli religious Zionist leader and long-serving cabinet minister who played a key role in the founding and early governance of the State of Israel.
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D.
Yehoshua Ravnitzky
Yehoshua Ravnitzky was a Jewish writer, editor, and publisher best known for co-editing the monumental anthology of rabbinic literature "Sefer Ha-Aggadah" with Hayim Nahman Bialik.
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E.
Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a prominent Zionist leader and Israeli politician who played a key role in the founding of the State of Israel and served as its first Minister of the Interior.
- 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: Mordechai Hod Target entity description: Mordechai Hod was an Israeli Air Force general best known for leading and modernizing Israel’s air power, including during the pivotal 1967 Six-Day War.
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A.
Mordechai Bentov
Mordechai Bentov was an Israeli politician and signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served in several ministerial roles in the early years of the state.
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B.
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.
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C.
Haim-Moshe Shapira
Haim-Moshe Shapira was a prominent Israeli religious Zionist leader and long-serving cabinet minister who played a key role in the founding and early governance of the State of Israel.
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D.
Yehoshua Ravnitzky
Yehoshua Ravnitzky was a Jewish writer, editor, and publisher best known for co-editing the monumental anthology of rabbinic literature "Sefer Ha-Aggadah" with Hayim Nahman Bialik.
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E.
Yitzhak Gruenbaum
Yitzhak Gruenbaum was a prominent Zionist leader and Israeli politician who played a key role in the founding of the State of Israel and served as its first Minister of the Interior.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Israeli Air Force officer
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air force commander ⓘ human ⓘ |
| allegiance | State of Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Israel Defense Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Mordechai Fein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kiryat Shaul Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict |
Six-Day War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
War of Attrition NERFINISHED ⓘ Yom Kippur War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Mandatory Palestine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Israel ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1926-06-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2003-06-29 ⓘ |
| education | Royal Air Force flight training ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Jews
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surface form:
Jewish people
|
| knownFor |
building Israel’s air superiority in the Middle East
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expanding and modernizing the Israeli Air Force’s aircraft fleet ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Haganah
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Palmach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Israeli Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryUnit | Israeli Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mordechai Hod NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | oversaw Operation Focus (Moked) in 1967 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading the Israeli Air Force during the Six-Day War
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modernizing Israel’s air power ⓘ |
| notableWork | development of preemptive air strike doctrine in 1967 ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
air force commander
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military officer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kibbutz Degania Bet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tel Aviv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Commander of the Israeli Air Force ⓘ |
| rank | Aluf (Major General) ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| serviceEnd | 1973 ⓘ |
| serviceStart | 1940s ⓘ |
| spouse | Shulamit Fein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mordechai Hod Description of subject: Mordechai Hod was an Israeli Air Force general best known for leading and modernizing Israel’s air power, including during the pivotal 1967 Six-Day War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.