David Ben-Gurion
E9492
David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, leading the country’s establishment and early development.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Ben-Gurion canonical | 99 |
| Ben-Gurion | 1 |
| דוד בן-גוריון | 1 |
| פולה בן-גוריון | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T75956 — 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: David Ben-Gurion Context triple: [creationOfStateOfIsrael, keyFigure, David Ben-Gurion]
-
A.
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres was an Israeli statesman who served as both prime minister and president of Israel and was a key architect of the Oslo Accords, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize.
-
B.
Haviv Ilan
Haviv Ilan is a business executive who leads the global semiconductor company Texas Instruments as its chief executive officer.
-
C.
Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat was the third President of Egypt, best known for signing the Camp David Accords with Israel and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
-
D.
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian political leader and longtime chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization who became a central figure in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and a co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
-
E.
Charles Malik
Charles Malik was a Lebanese philosopher, diplomat, and statesman who played a leading role in shaping the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and later served as president of the UN General Assembly.
- 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: David Ben-Gurion Target entity description: David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, leading the country’s establishment and early development.
-
A.
Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres was an Israeli statesman who served as both prime minister and president of Israel and was a key architect of the Oslo Accords, earning him the Nobel Peace Prize.
-
B.
Haviv Ilan
Haviv Ilan is a business executive who leads the global semiconductor company Texas Instruments as its chief executive officer.
-
C.
Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat was the third President of Egypt, best known for signing the Camp David Accords with Israel and receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
-
D.
Yasser Arafat
Yasser Arafat was a Palestinian political leader and longtime chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization who became a central figure in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and a co-recipient of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
-
E.
Charles Malik
Charles Malik was a Lebanese philosopher, diplomat, and statesman who played a leading role in shaping the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and later served as president of the UN General Assembly.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Prime Minister
ⓘ
Zionist leader ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1886-10-16 ⓘ |
| birthName | David Grün ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Congress Poland
ⓘ
Płońsk ⓘ Russian Empire ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Sde Boker, Negev, Israel
ⓘ
surface form:
Midreshet Ben-Gurion
Negev desert ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cerebral hemorrhage ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Israel
ⓘ
British Mandate for Palestine ⓘ
surface form:
Mandatory Palestine
Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1973-12-01 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Ramat Gan
ⓘ
Tel HaShomer ⓘ |
| education |
Istanbul University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Istanbul
Warsaw University (attended, not completed) ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jews ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Haganah
ⓘ
surface form:
Israel Defense Forces
Israel ⓘ
surface form:
State of Israel
|
| fullName | David Ben-Gurion self-link ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOf | Israel ⓘ |
| honorificName | "Father of the Nation" of Israel ⓘ |
| ideology |
Zionism
ⓘ
socialism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ Polish ⓘ Turkish ⓘ Yiddish ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Mapai
ⓘ
Poale Zion ⓘ Rafi ⓘ World Zionist Organization ⓘ |
| militaryRank | head of the Haganah ⓘ |
| movement | Labor Zionism ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Ben-Gurion Airport
ⓘ
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
led Israel during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War
ⓘ
ordered the 1956 Sinai Campaign ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Israeli Declaration of Independence
ⓘ
surface form:
Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
|
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
ⓘ
statesman ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| officeEnd |
1953-01-26
ⓘ
1963-06-26 ⓘ |
| officeStart |
1948-05-14
ⓘ
1955-11-03 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of Defence
ⓘ
surface form:
Minister of Defense of Israel
Minister of Defense of the Provisional Government of Israel ⓘ Prime Minister of Israel ⓘ member of the Knesset ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Jerusalem
ⓘ
Sde Boker, Negev, Israel ⓘ
surface form:
Sde Boker
Tel Aviv ⓘ |
| signed | Israeli Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| spouse | Paula Ben-Gurion ⓘ |
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: David Ben-Gurion Description of subject: David Ben-Gurion was the primary national founder and first Prime Minister of Israel, leading the country’s establishment and early development.
Referenced by (102)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.