al-Rukn al-Yamani
E221356
al-Rukn al-Yamani is the southwestern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, revered in Islamic tradition as a blessed point where many pilgrims touch or supplicate during the Hajj and Umrah.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| al-Rukn al-Yamani canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1988498 — 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: al-Rukn al-Yamani Context triple: [Yemeni corner, hasTransliteration, al-Rukn al-Yamani]
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A.
Abu Madyan
Abu Madyan was a prominent 12th-century Andalusian-Maghrebi Sufi master and spiritual teacher whose doctrines deeply shaped later Islamic mysticism.
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B.
Wad Madani
Wad Madani is a major city in east-central Sudan and the capital of Al Jazirah state, serving as an important commercial and agricultural hub along the Blue Nile.
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C.
Al-Hareeq
Al-Hareeq is a town in central Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural activity, particularly date palm cultivation, within the Riyadh region.
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D.
Ramy al-Jamarat
Ramy al-Jamarat is the Islamic ritual of symbolically stoning pillars representing the devil during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, near Mecca.
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E.
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam is an Arab local council in northern Israel, located at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee.
- 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: al-Rukn al-Yamani Target entity description: al-Rukn al-Yamani is the southwestern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, revered in Islamic tradition as a blessed point where many pilgrims touch or supplicate during the Hajj and Umrah.
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A.
Abu Madyan
Abu Madyan was a prominent 12th-century Andalusian-Maghrebi Sufi master and spiritual teacher whose doctrines deeply shaped later Islamic mysticism.
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B.
Wad Madani
Wad Madani is a major city in east-central Sudan and the capital of Al Jazirah state, serving as an important commercial and agricultural hub along the Blue Nile.
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C.
Al-Hareeq
Al-Hareeq is a town in central Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural activity, particularly date palm cultivation, within the Riyadh region.
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D.
Ramy al-Jamarat
Ramy al-Jamarat is the Islamic ritual of symbolically stoning pillars representing the devil during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mina, near Mecca.
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E.
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam
Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam is an Arab local council in northern Israel, located at the foot of Mount Tabor in the Lower Galilee.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
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: al-Rukn al-Yamani Description of subject: al-Rukn al-Yamani is the southwestern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, revered in Islamic tradition as a blessed point where many pilgrims touch or supplicate during the Hajj and Umrah.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.