Yazidis
E217225
The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority primarily from northern Iraq, known for their distinct syncretic faith centered on the worship of Melek Taus (the Peacock Angel) and for having faced severe persecution, including recent genocidal attacks by ISIS.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yazidis canonical | 33 |
| Yazidi community | 4 |
| Yazidi | 1 |
| Yazidi Kurds | 1 |
| Yazidi clergy | 1 |
| Yazidi people | 1 |
| Yazidi religious council | 1 |
| Yazidi women | 1 |
| Yazidis in the Caucasus | 1 |
| Yazidis traditionally avoid insults against Melek Taus | 1 |
| Yezidis | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1918683 — 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: Yazidis Context triple: [Northern Iraq, hasEthnicGroup, Yazidis]
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A.
Kurds
The Kurds are an ethnic group native to a mountainous region spanning parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, known for their distinct Kurdish language, culture, and long-standing aspirations for greater autonomy or statehood.
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B.
Alawites
Alawites are a religious minority sect within Shia Islam, primarily based in Syria, that has held significant political power in the country through the Assad family’s rule.
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C.
Druze
The Druze are a small, monotheistic religious and ethnonational community originating in the Levant, known for their esoteric beliefs, strong communal cohesion, and significant presence in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
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D.
Kurmanji
Kurmanji is the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language, used primarily by Kurds across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the diaspora.
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E.
Chaldeans
The Chaldeans were an ancient Semitic people of southern Mesopotamia, closely associated with Babylon and known for their role in the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
- 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: Yazidis Target entity description: The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority primarily from northern Iraq, known for their distinct syncretic faith centered on the worship of Melek Taus (the Peacock Angel) and for having faced severe persecution, including recent genocidal attacks by ISIS.
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A.
Kurds
The Kurds are an ethnic group native to a mountainous region spanning parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, known for their distinct Kurdish language, culture, and long-standing aspirations for greater autonomy or statehood.
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B.
Alawites
Alawites are a religious minority sect within Shia Islam, primarily based in Syria, that has held significant political power in the country through the Assad family’s rule.
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C.
Druze
The Druze are a small, monotheistic religious and ethnonational community originating in the Levant, known for their esoteric beliefs, strong communal cohesion, and significant presence in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
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D.
Kurmanji
Kurmanji is the most widely spoken dialect of the Kurdish language, used primarily by Kurds across Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and the diaspora.
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E.
Chaldeans
The Chaldeans were an ancient Semitic people of southern Mesopotamia, closely associated with Babylon and known for their role in the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Yazidis Description of subject: The Yazidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority primarily from northern Iraq, known for their distinct syncretic faith centered on the worship of Melek Taus (the Peacock Angel) and for having faced severe persecution, including recent genocidal attacks by ISIS.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
northern Iraq
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
subject linked to:
Shekhan district
subject linked to:
Shekhan district
subject linked to:
Shekhan district
subject linked to:
Shekhan district
linked to: Yazidis
subject linked to:
Mishur (oral religious tradition)
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
subject linked to:
Cejna Cemaiya (Feast of the Assembly)
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis
linked to: Yazidis