Hajj
E27189
Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that every able-bodied Muslim with sufficient means is religiously obligated to perform at least once in their lifetime.
All labels observed (13)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hajj canonical | 63 |
| Hajj pilgrimage | 7 |
| HajjPilgrimage | 2 |
| Al-Hajj | 1 |
| Hajj rituals | 1 |
| Hajj season | 1 |
| Hajj to Mecca | 1 |
| HajjPilgrims | 1 |
| HajjSeason | 1 |
| IslamicPilgrimage | 1 |
| Sa'i ritual | 1 |
| The Hajj | 1 |
| manasik al-Hajj | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212895 — 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: Hajj Context triple: [Five Pillars of Islam, component, Hajj]
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A.
Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha is an important Islamic festival commemorating Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son, marked by special prayers, charity, and the ritual sacrifice of animals.
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B.
Masjid al-Haram
Masjid al-Haram is the Grand Mosque in Mecca that surrounds the Kaaba and serves as the holiest site in Islam and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage.
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C.
Kaaba
The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque in Mecca and the focal point of Muslim prayer and pilgrimage.
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Mecca
Mecca is the holiest city in Islam, located in present-day Saudi Arabia and home to the Kaaba, toward which Muslims around the world face in prayer and to which they undertake the Hajj pilgrimage.
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E.
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr is a major Islamic festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with communal prayers, feasting, charity, and celebration.
- 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: Hajj Target entity description: Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that every able-bodied Muslim with sufficient means is religiously obligated to perform at least once in their lifetime.
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A.
Eid al-Adha
Eid al-Adha is an important Islamic festival commemorating Prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son, marked by special prayers, charity, and the ritual sacrifice of animals.
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B.
Masjid al-Haram
Masjid al-Haram is the Grand Mosque in Mecca that surrounds the Kaaba and serves as the holiest site in Islam and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage.
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C.
Kaaba
The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque in Mecca and the focal point of Muslim prayer and pilgrimage.
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D.
Mecca
Mecca is the holiest city in Islam, located in present-day Saudi Arabia and home to the Kaaba, toward which Muslims around the world face in prayer and to which they undertake the Hajj pilgrimage.
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E.
Eid al-Fitr
Eid al-Fitr is a major Islamic festival that marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan with communal prayers, feasting, charity, and celebration.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Hajj Description of subject: Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca that every able-bodied Muslim with sufficient means is religiously obligated to perform at least once in their lifetime.
Referenced by (82)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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subject linked to:
Ali Shariati (ideologue)
subject linked to:
Mecca and Medina