People of the Book
E148948
People of the Book is an Islamic term referring primarily to Jews and Christians as recipients of earlier divine scriptures before the Qur’an.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| People of the Book canonical | 55 |
| People of the Book (in some Islamic legal opinions) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1309929 — 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: People of the Book Context triple: [Surah An-Nisa, addressesGroup, People of the Book]
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A.
Bir Hakeim
Bir Hakeim is a remote desert outpost in southeastern Libya, best known as the site of a major World War II battle between Free French forces and the Axis powers in 1942.
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B.
Dua Libro
"Dua Libro" is the second major book in the early Esperanto literature corpus, continuing the development and promotion of the Esperanto language after "Unua Libro."
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C.
Al-Istibsar
Al-Istibsar is one of the major Shia hadith compilations, authored by the scholar Shaykh al-Tusi and widely used in Twelver Shia jurisprudence.
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D.
Sulh-i Kul
Sulh-i Kul was a Mughal-era doctrine of universal peace and tolerance that promoted religious harmony and equal treatment of all faiths in the empire.
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E.
The Harafish
The Harafish is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that traces the rise and fall of a Cairo alley’s families across generations, blending mythic storytelling with social realism.
- 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: People of the Book Target entity description: People of the Book is an Islamic term referring primarily to Jews and Christians as recipients of earlier divine scriptures before the Qur’an.
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A.
Bir Hakeim
Bir Hakeim is a remote desert outpost in southeastern Libya, best known as the site of a major World War II battle between Free French forces and the Axis powers in 1942.
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B.
Dua Libro
"Dua Libro" is the second major book in the early Esperanto literature corpus, continuing the development and promotion of the Esperanto language after "Unua Libro."
-
C.
Al-Istibsar
Al-Istibsar is one of the major Shia hadith compilations, authored by the scholar Shaykh al-Tusi and widely used in Twelver Shia jurisprudence.
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D.
Sulh-i Kul
Sulh-i Kul was a Mughal-era doctrine of universal peace and tolerance that promoted religious harmony and equal treatment of all faiths in the empire.
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E.
The Harafish
The Harafish is a celebrated novel by Egyptian Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz that traces the rise and fall of a Cairo alley’s families across generations, blending mythic storytelling with social realism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic religious concept
ⓘ
Quranic term ⓘ |
| acknowledgedToHave | partial preservation of earlier revelation in Islamic theology ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
dhimma
ⓘ
jizya ⓘ |
| associatedWithScripture |
Gospel
ⓘ
Torah ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | polytheists in Islamic discourse ⓘ |
| coreMeaning | people possessing a divinely revealed scripture ⓘ |
| definedIn |
Qur’an
ⓘ
linked to:
Quran
|
| dietaryLawStatus | food of the People of the Book is often treated as generally permissible for Muslims with conditions ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | idolaters in many Islamic legal discussions ⓘ |
| hasDoctrinalDifferenceWithIslam |
Christian belief in the divinity of Jesus
ⓘ
Jewish rejection of Muhammad’s prophethood ⓘ |
| hasLegalStatusIn | Islamic law ⓘ |
| hasNameInArabic | Ahl al-Kitab ⓘ |
| hasQuranicCharacterization |
some are criticized for altering or concealing scripture
ⓘ
some are praised for faith and righteousness ⓘ |
| hasTheologicalRoleInIslam | evidence of continuity of divine revelation ⓘ |
| historicallyIncludes |
Christian communities under Muslim rule
ⓘ
Jewish communities under Muslim rule ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | Arabic ⓘ |
| marriageRulesInIslam | Muslim men may marry women from the People of the Book (according to many jurists) ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Qur’an 2:62
ⓘ
Qur’an 3:199 ⓘ Qur’an 3:64 ⓘ Qur’an 3:65 ⓘ Qur’an 4:171 ⓘ Qur’an 5:15 ⓘ Qur’an 5:19 ⓘ Qur’an 5:5 ⓘ Qur’an 5:68 ⓘ Qur’an 5:77 ⓘ Qur’an 9:29 ⓘ |
| permittedTo | maintain their own religious practices under Muslim rule (historically, with conditions) ⓘ |
| precedes | Muslim community in chronological revelation ⓘ |
| recognizedAs | recipients of earlier revelation ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Christians
ⓘ
linked to:
Christianity
Jews ⓘ communities believed to have received earlier divine scriptures ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | Abrahamic religions ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Islam ⓘ |
| sometimesExtendedTo |
Sabians
ⓘ
Zoroastrians (by some jurists) ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Islamic jurisprudential debates on tolerance and rights
ⓘ
interfaith dialogue in contemporary Islam ⓘ |
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: People of the Book Description of subject: People of the Book is an Islamic term referring primarily to Jews and Christians as recipients of earlier divine scriptures before the Qur’an.
Referenced by (56)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.