Isha
E27509
Isha is the nightly Islamic prayer that is performed after dusk and marks the final of the five daily obligatory prayers in Islam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isha canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212909 — 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: Isha Context triple: [Salat, performedAtTimes, Isha]
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A.
Devi
Devi is the supreme goddess in Hinduism, embodying the divine feminine power (Shakti) in its many forms such as Durga, Parvati, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.
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B.
Swayam
Swayam is an Indian government-backed online learning platform that provides free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from schools, colleges, and universities across the country.
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C.
Ahirani
Ahirani is an Indo-Aryan dialect spoken primarily in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra, India, closely related to Marathi but with distinct phonological and lexical features.
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D.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
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E.
Navjivan
Navjivan was an Indian publishing house and imprint associated with Mahatma Gandhi, known for issuing many of his writings and related works on the Indian independence movement.
- 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: Isha Target entity description: Isha is the nightly Islamic prayer that is performed after dusk and marks the final of the five daily obligatory prayers in Islam.
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A.
Devi
Devi is the supreme goddess in Hinduism, embodying the divine feminine power (Shakti) in its many forms such as Durga, Parvati, Lakshmi, and Saraswati.
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B.
Swayam
Swayam is an Indian government-backed online learning platform that provides free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from schools, colleges, and universities across the country.
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C.
Ahirani
Ahirani is an Indo-Aryan dialect spoken primarily in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra, India, closely related to Marathi but with distinct phonological and lexical features.
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D.
Sivan
Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, traditionally associated with the festival of Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.
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E.
Navjivan
Navjivan was an Indian publishing house and imprint associated with Mahatma Gandhi, known for issuing many of his writings and related works on the Indian independence movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic prayer
ⓘ
Salah ⓘ |
| ArabicName | صلاة العشاء ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Witr prayer
ⓘ
nightly worship in Islam ⓘ |
| canBePrayedInCongregation | yes ⓘ |
| category | obligatory act of worship (ibadah) ⓘ |
| containsComponent |
Qur’an recitation
ⓘ
bowing (ruku) ⓘ prostration (sujud) ⓘ standing (qiyam) ⓘ tashahhud ⓘ |
| dailyFrequency | once per day ⓘ |
| directionOfPrayer | qibla ⓘ |
| endsWith | taslim ⓘ |
| genderParticipation | men and women ⓘ |
| hasDifferentOpinionsOn |
exact start time
ⓘ
latest valid time ⓘ |
| includesOptionalRakats | yes ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Arabic ⓘ |
| ledBy | imam (in congregation) ⓘ |
| legalClassification | individual obligation (fard ayn) ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | night ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Hadith literature ⓘ |
| numberOfRakats | 4 fard rakats ⓘ |
| obligatoryStatus | fard ⓘ |
| optionalRakatsType |
nafl
ⓘ
sunnah ⓘ |
| partOf |
Salah in Islam
ⓘ
five daily prayers ⓘ |
| performedAfter |
Maghrib
ⓘ
dusk ⓘ |
| performedBy | Muslims ⓘ |
| performedIn |
homes
ⓘ
mosques ⓘ |
| positionInSequence | fifth daily obligatory prayer in Islam ⓘ |
| prerequisite | ritual purity (wudu or ghusl) ⓘ |
| recitationLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| regulatedBy | Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| requiredFor | fulfilling daily prayer obligation in Islam ⓘ |
| timeCategory | night prayer ⓘ |
| timeRangeEnd | midnight or dawn (depending on school of law) ⓘ |
| timeRangeStart | after disappearance of red twilight (according to many jurists) ⓘ |
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: Isha Description of subject: Isha is the nightly Islamic prayer that is performed after dusk and marks the final of the five daily obligatory prayers in Islam.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.