Yunus
E109128
Yunus is the Arabic form of the name Jonas, commonly associated with the prophet Jonah in Islamic tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yunus canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T924333 — 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: Yunus Context triple: [Jonas, equivalentName, Yunus]
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A.
Abdus
Abdus is a given name most notably borne by Abdus Salam, the Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
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B.
Toor Pekai Yousafzai
Toor Pekai Yousafzai is the mother of Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai and a Pakistani women's rights advocate who has spoken out in support of girls' education.
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C.
Nur Herman Majid
Nur Herman Majid is a Malaysian former hurdler best known for lighting the cauldron at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
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D.
Achmed Abdullah
Achmed Abdullah was a Russian-born American writer and screenwriter known for his exotic adventure tales and contributions to early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Abdul Salaam
Abdul Salaam is a former American football defensive tackle best known as a member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- 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: Yunus Target entity description: Yunus is the Arabic form of the name Jonas, commonly associated with the prophet Jonah in Islamic tradition.
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A.
Abdus
Abdus is a given name most notably borne by Abdus Salam, the Pakistani theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate.
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B.
Toor Pekai Yousafzai
Toor Pekai Yousafzai is the mother of Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai and a Pakistani women's rights advocate who has spoken out in support of girls' education.
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C.
Nur Herman Majid
Nur Herman Majid is a Malaysian former hurdler best known for lighting the cauldron at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur.
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D.
Achmed Abdullah
Achmed Abdullah was a Russian-born American writer and screenwriter known for his exotic adventure tales and contributions to early Hollywood cinema.
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E.
Abdul Salaam
Abdul Salaam is a former American football defensive tackle best known as a member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic masculine given name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure |
Prophet Jonah
ⓘ
linked to:
prophet Jonah
Prophet Yunus ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Islam ⓘ |
| associatedWithStory | story of the man swallowed by a great fish or whale ⓘ |
| category | theophoric names ⓘ |
| equivalentName |
Jonah
ⓘ
linked to:
Prophet Yunus
Jonas ⓘ |
| etymologicalRelation | Hebrew name Yonah ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificance | true ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Arabic ⓘ |
| meaning |
Jonah
ⓘ
linked to:
prophet Jonah
|
| mentionedIn | Quran ⓘ |
| nameOfQuranicSurah | Surah Yunus ⓘ |
| nameType | personal name ⓘ |
| script | Arabic script ⓘ |
| transliterationVariant |
Younas
ⓘ
linked to:
Younus
Younes ⓘ Younis ⓘ
linked to:
Younus
Younus ⓘ |
| usedByLanguageCommunity |
Arabic speakers
ⓘ
Persian speakers ⓘ Turkish speakers ⓘ Urdu speakers ⓘ |
| usedInRegion |
Middle East
ⓘ
North Africa ⓘ South Asia ⓘ |
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: Yunus Description of subject: Yunus is the Arabic form of the name Jonas, commonly associated with the prophet Jonah in Islamic tradition.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.