Attar of Nishapur's "Conference of the Birds"
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Attar of Nishapur's "Conference of the Birds" is a 12th-century Persian Sufi allegorical poem in which a group of birds, led by the hoopoe, undertake a spiritual quest to find the mythical Simurgh, only to discover it as a symbol of divine unity within themselves.
All labels observed (1)
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| Attar of Nishapur's "Conference of the Birds" canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20931289 — 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: Attar of Nishapur's "Conference of the Birds" Context triple: [Simurgh, notableWorkReference, Attar of Nishapur's "Conference of the Birds"]
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The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds is a fantasy novel by Ransom Riggs in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series, continuing the adventures of Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends.
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B.
Khamsa of Nizami
The Khamsa of Nizami is a celebrated 12th-century Persian literary masterpiece comprising five romantic and didactic epic poems that became a central source of inspiration for later Persian art and miniature painting.
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C.
Gulistan of Saadi
Gulistan of Saadi is a classic 13th-century Persian prose-and-verse masterpiece by Saadi Shirazi, renowned for its moral anecdotes, wisdom literature, and enduring influence on Eastern and Western thought.
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D.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a celebrated collection of quatrains attributed to the Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, best known in the English-speaking world through Edward FitzGerald’s influential 19th-century translation.
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E.
Bustan of Saadi
Bustan of Saadi is a classic 13th-century Persian didactic poem by Saadi Shirazi, renowned for its moral tales and reflections on ethics, spirituality, and proper conduct.
- 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: Attar of Nishapur's "Conference of the Birds" Target entity description: Attar of Nishapur's "Conference of the Birds" is a 12th-century Persian Sufi allegorical poem in which a group of birds, led by the hoopoe, undertake a spiritual quest to find the mythical Simurgh, only to discover it as a symbol of divine unity within themselves.
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A.
The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds is a fantasy novel by Ransom Riggs in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series, continuing the adventures of Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends.
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B.
Khamsa of Nizami
The Khamsa of Nizami is a celebrated 12th-century Persian literary masterpiece comprising five romantic and didactic epic poems that became a central source of inspiration for later Persian art and miniature painting.
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C.
Gulistan of Saadi
Gulistan of Saadi is a classic 13th-century Persian prose-and-verse masterpiece by Saadi Shirazi, renowned for its moral anecdotes, wisdom literature, and enduring influence on Eastern and Western thought.
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D.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a celebrated collection of quatrains attributed to the Persian polymath Omar Khayyam, best known in the English-speaking world through Edward FitzGerald’s influential 19th-century translation.
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E.
Bustan of Saadi
Bustan of Saadi is a classic 13th-century Persian didactic poem by Saadi Shirazi, renowned for its moral tales and reflections on ethics, spirituality, and proper conduct.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.