Khiyam
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Khiyam is a town in southern Lebanon known for its proximity to the former Khiyam detention center, a notorious prison used during the Israeli occupation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Khiyam canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21558274 — 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: Khiyam Context triple: [Khiyam detention center, locatedIn, Khiyam]
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A.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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B.
Omar Khayyam Shakil
Omar Khayyam Shakil is a central, symbolically charged character in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Shame," whose unusual birth and upbringing reflect the book’s themes of identity, history, and political allegory.
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C.
Khayyam Yousafzai
Khayyam Yousafzai is the son of Toor Pekai Yousafzai and Ziauddin Yousafzai, making him the younger brother of Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
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D.
Qutb al-Din Shirazi
Qutb al-Din Shirazi was a 13th-century Persian polymath, philosopher, astronomer, and commentator on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist philosophy, known for his contributions to optics and astronomical models.
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E.
Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi
Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher and theologian, best known for founding the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school that synthesized Peripatetic, Illuminationist, and mystical thought.
- 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: Khiyam Target entity description: Khiyam is a town in southern Lebanon known for its proximity to the former Khiyam detention center, a notorious prison used during the Israeli occupation.
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A.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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B.
Omar Khayyam Shakil
Omar Khayyam Shakil is a central, symbolically charged character in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Shame," whose unusual birth and upbringing reflect the book’s themes of identity, history, and political allegory.
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C.
Khayyam Yousafzai
Khayyam Yousafzai is the son of Toor Pekai Yousafzai and Ziauddin Yousafzai, making him the younger brother of Pakistani education activist and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai.
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D.
Qutb al-Din Shirazi
Qutb al-Din Shirazi was a 13th-century Persian polymath, philosopher, astronomer, and commentator on Suhrawardi’s Illuminationist philosophy, known for his contributions to optics and astronomical models.
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E.
Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi
Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher and theologian, best known for founding the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school that synthesized Peripatetic, Illuminationist, and mystical thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.