Mayer Sámuel Weisz
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Mayer Sámuel Weisz was the father of famed illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, originally born Erik Weisz.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mayer Sámuel Weisz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10964363 — 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: Mayer Sámuel Weisz Context triple: [Harry Houdini, parent, Mayer Sámuel Weisz]
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A.
Mátyás Rosenfeld
Mátyás Rosenfeld, better known as Mátyás Rákosi, was a Hungarian communist politician who led Hungary as its Stalinist dictator in the early Cold War era.
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B.
Samuel Rosenstock
Samuel Rosenstock, better known as Tristan Tzara, was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist who co-founded and became a leading figure of the Dada movement.
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C.
Jodok Salzmann
Jodok Salzmann is a notable individual who carries the Salzmann surname, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that family name.
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D.
Samuel Weiss
Samuel Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public significance is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
György Stern
György Stern, later known as Sir Georg Solti, was a renowned Hungarian-British conductor celebrated for his powerful interpretations of opera and symphonic repertoire and his long association with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
- 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: Mayer Sámuel Weisz Target entity description: Mayer Sámuel Weisz was the father of famed illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, originally born Erik Weisz.
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A.
Mátyás Rosenfeld
Mátyás Rosenfeld, better known as Mátyás Rákosi, was a Hungarian communist politician who led Hungary as its Stalinist dictator in the early Cold War era.
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B.
Samuel Rosenstock
Samuel Rosenstock, better known as Tristan Tzara, was a Romanian-French avant-garde poet and essayist who co-founded and became a leading figure of the Dada movement.
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C.
Jodok Salzmann
Jodok Salzmann is a notable individual who carries the Salzmann surname, recognized as a distinguished bearer of that family name.
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D.
Samuel Weiss
Samuel Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public significance is not clearly established from the available information.
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E.
György Stern
György Stern, later known as Sir Georg Solti, was a renowned Hungarian-British conductor celebrated for his powerful interpretations of opera and symphonic repertoire and his long association with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Appleton, Wisconsin Jewish community
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hungarian Jewish community NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Erik Weisz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Austria-Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Hungary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| familyName | Weisz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOf |
Erik Weisz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName |
Mayer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sámuel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
German
ⓘ
Hungarian ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| migration | emigrated from the Kingdom of Hungary to the United States ⓘ |
| name | Mayer Sámuel Weisz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Harry Houdini ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Erik Weisz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harry Houdini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 7 ⓘ |
| occupation | rabbi ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| religiousRole | Jewish community rabbi in Appleton, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| residence |
Appleton, Wisconsin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Budapest NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Cecília Steiner 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: Mayer Sámuel Weisz Description of subject: Mayer Sámuel Weisz was the father of famed illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini, originally born Erik Weisz.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.