Rabi al-thani
E605932
Rabi al-thani is the fourth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide for various religious and cultural practices.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rabi al-thani canonical | 4 |
| Rabi al-akhir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6517935 — 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: Rabi al-thani Context triple: [Islamic lunar calendar, hasMonth, Rabi al-thani]
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A.
Shawwal
Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, notable for beginning with the Eid al-Fitr celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.
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B.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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C.
Iyar
Iyar is the second month of the Hebrew calendar’s religious year, falling in spring and associated with events such as Israel’s Independence Day and Lag BaOmer.
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D.
Rabi
Rabi is a surname most notably associated with Isidor Isaac Rabi, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who developed the molecular beam magnetic resonance method.
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E.
Dhu al-Qadah
Dhu al-Qadah is the eleventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally regarded as one of the four sacred months in which warfare is forbidden.
- 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: Rabi al-thani Target entity description: Rabi al-thani is the fourth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide for various religious and cultural practices.
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A.
Shawwal
Shawwal is the tenth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, notable for beginning with the Eid al-Fitr celebration that marks the end of Ramadan.
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B.
Nisan
Nisan is the first month of the Hebrew religious year, traditionally associated with spring and the festival of Passover.
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C.
Iyar
Iyar is the second month of the Hebrew calendar’s religious year, falling in spring and associated with events such as Israel’s Independence Day and Lag BaOmer.
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D.
Rabi
Rabi is a surname most notably associated with Isidor Isaac Rabi, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who developed the molecular beam magnetic resonance method.
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E.
Dhu al-Qadah
Dhu al-Qadah is the eleventh month of the Islamic lunar calendar, traditionally regarded as one of the four sacred months in which warfare is forbidden.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic calendar month
ⓘ
month ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
cultural practices
ⓘ
religious practices ⓘ |
| calendarSystem | Hijri calendar ⓘ |
| calendarType | lunar ⓘ |
| follows | Rabi al-awwal ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Rabi II
ⓘ
Rabi al-akhir ⓘ
linked to:
Rabi al-thani
|
| hasApproximateLengthInDays | 29 or 30 ⓘ |
| hasNoFixedGregorianDates | true ⓘ |
| isLunarMonth | true ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Arabic ⓘ |
| observedIn | Islamic world ⓘ |
| occursAfter | Rabi al-awwal in the Hijri year ⓘ |
| occursBefore | Jumada al-awwal in the Hijri year ⓘ |
| partOf | Islamic lunar calendar ⓘ |
| positionInCalendar | 4 ⓘ |
| precedes |
Jumada al-awwal
ⓘ
linked to:
Jumada al-akhira
|
| scriptOfName | Arabic script ⓘ |
| shiftsAgainstGregorianCalendar | true ⓘ |
| usedBy | Muslims ⓘ |
| usedFor | determining Islamic dates ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Islamic historical dating
ⓘ
religious observances schedule ⓘ |
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: Rabi al-thani Description of subject: Rabi al-thani is the fourth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, observed by Muslims worldwide for various religious and cultural practices.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Rabi al-thani