Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki
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French Jew
Jewish biblical commentator
Talmudic commentator
halakhic authority
medieval Jewish scholar
rabbi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, commonly known as Rashi, was an 11th-century French rabbi and seminal Jewish scholar renowned for his influential commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and Talmud.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki canonical | 5 |
| Shlomo Yitzchaki | 2 |
| Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki of Troyes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T650901 — 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 Shlomo Yitzchaki Context triple: [Rashi script, namedAfter, Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki]
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A.
Nachmanides (Ramban)
Nachmanides (Ramban) was a 13th-century Spanish rabbi, Talmudist, biblical commentator, philosopher, and early kabbalist whose writings profoundly shaped Jewish thought and mysticism.
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B.
Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
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C.
Saadia Gaon
Saadia Gaon was a 10th-century Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exegete renowned for his foundational works in Jewish theology, biblical commentary, and translation, particularly in Judeo-Arabic.
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D.
Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
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E.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon was a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Zionist leader, and one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served as Israel’s first Minister of Religions.
- 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 Shlomo Yitzchaki Target entity description: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, commonly known as Rashi, was an 11th-century French rabbi and seminal Jewish scholar renowned for his influential commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and Talmud.
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A.
Nachmanides (Ramban)
Nachmanides (Ramban) was a 13th-century Spanish rabbi, Talmudist, biblical commentator, philosopher, and early kabbalist whose writings profoundly shaped Jewish thought and mysticism.
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B.
Moshe Cordovero
Moshe Cordovero was a 16th-century Safed rabbi and one of the most influential systematic thinkers and codifiers of Kabbalah.
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C.
Saadia Gaon
Saadia Gaon was a 10th-century Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and exegete renowned for his foundational works in Jewish theology, biblical commentary, and translation, particularly in Judeo-Arabic.
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D.
Yosef Karo
Yosef Karo was a preeminent 16th-century Sephardic rabbi and legal scholar best known as the author of the Shulchan Aruch, the foundational code of Jewish law.
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E.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon was a prominent Orthodox rabbi, Zionist leader, and one of the signatories of the Israeli Declaration of Independence who served as Israel’s first Minister of Religions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
French Jew
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Jewish biblical commentator ⓘ Talmudic commentator ⓘ halakhic authority ⓘ medieval Jewish scholar ⓘ rabbi ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1040 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Champagne
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France ⓘ Troyes ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Troyes
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surface form:
Troyes area
|
| century | 11th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1105 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
France
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Troyes ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
yeshivot in Mainz
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yeshivot in Worms ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Halakha
ⓘ
Hebrew Bible exegesis ⓘ Talmud ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki of Troyes
Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzchak ⓘ Rashi ⓘ |
| hasName |
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki
self-link
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Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Shlomo Yitzchaki
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| hasStudent |
Baalei Tosafot
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surface form:
Tosafists of northern France and Germany
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| influenced |
Christian biblical scholarship
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Halakha ⓘ
surface form:
Jewish law codes
Baalei Tosafot ⓘ
surface form:
Tosafists
later Talmudic commentators ⓘ medieval Jewish exegesis ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Geonim ⓘ |
| knownFor |
concise explanatory glosses
ⓘ
standard printed commentary on the Chumash ⓘ standard printed commentary on the Talmud ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Aramaic
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| movement |
Ashkenazi Jews
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surface form:
Ashkenazi Judaism
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| notableWork |
Commentary on the Talmud
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Commentary on the Tanakh ⓘ Commentary on the Torah ⓘ |
| occupation |
commentator
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rabbi ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | Troyes ⓘ |
| tradition | peshat-oriented biblical exegesis ⓘ |
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: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki Description of subject: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, commonly known as Rashi, was an 11th-century French rabbi and seminal Jewish scholar renowned for his influential commentaries on the Hebrew Bible and Talmud.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shlomo Yitzchaki
this entity surface form:
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki of Troyes