Sura
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Sura was an important Babylonian Talmudic academy that became a major center of Jewish religious scholarship and legal interpretation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sura canonical | 23 |
| the city of Sura | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T615670 — 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: Sura Context triple: [Persian Jews, notableCenterOfLearning, Sura]
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A.
Sūrāyē
Sūrāyē is the endonym used by Assyrians to refer to themselves as a distinct ethnic and cultural group originating from ancient Mesopotamia.
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B.
Surah Al-Fil
Surah Al-Fil is a short Meccan chapter of the Quran that recounts God’s miraculous protection of the Kaaba from the army of the Elephant.
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C.
Surah Ar-Ra'd
Surah Ar-Ra'd is the 13th chapter of the Quran, known for its themes of divine power, the reality of revelation, and the contrast between believers and disbelievers.
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D.
Surah Al-Ahqaf
Surah Al-Ahqaf is the 46th chapter of the Quran, a Meccan surah that discusses themes of divine revelation, the fate of past nations, and the consequences of denying the truth.
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E.
Surah Al-Buruj
Surah Al-Buruj is a Meccan chapter of the Quran that emphasizes God's watchful power, the fate of persecutors of believers, and the certainty of divine judgment.
- 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: Sura Target entity description: Sura was an important Babylonian Talmudic academy that became a major center of Jewish religious scholarship and legal interpretation.
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A.
Sūrāyē
Sūrāyē is the endonym used by Assyrians to refer to themselves as a distinct ethnic and cultural group originating from ancient Mesopotamia.
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B.
Surah Al-Fil
Surah Al-Fil is a short Meccan chapter of the Quran that recounts God’s miraculous protection of the Kaaba from the army of the Elephant.
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C.
Surah Ar-Ra'd
Surah Ar-Ra'd is the 13th chapter of the Quran, known for its themes of divine power, the reality of revelation, and the contrast between believers and disbelievers.
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D.
Surah Al-Ahqaf
Surah Al-Ahqaf is the 46th chapter of the Quran, a Meccan surah that discusses themes of divine revelation, the fate of past nations, and the consequences of denying the truth.
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E.
Surah Al-Buruj
Surah Al-Buruj is a Meccan chapter of the Quran that emphasizes God's watchful power, the fate of persecutors of believers, and the certainty of divine judgment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Talmudic academy
ⓘ
yeshiva ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Sura Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
Sura academy
Yeshivat Sura ⓘ |
| country |
Iraq (modern)
ⓘ
linked to:
Iraq
|
| disestablished | early medieval period ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Halakha
ⓘ
Jewish law ⓘ
linked to:
Halakha
Jewish theology ⓘ Talmudic studies ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Abba Arikha
ⓘ
Rav ⓘ |
| governedBy | Geonim ⓘ |
| hasAcademicTerm | Kallah (semiannual assembly) ⓘ |
| heritageStatus | major center of the Jewish diaspora ⓘ |
| inception | 3rd century CE ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jewish law in the diaspora
ⓘ
development of the Babylonian Talmud ⓘ later yeshiva traditions ⓘ |
| languageOfInstruction |
Aramaic
ⓘ
Hebrew ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Babylonia
ⓘ
linked to:
Mesopotamia
Sasanian Empire ⓘ |
| majorWorkStudied |
Babylonian Talmud
ⓘ
linked to:
Talmud
|
| notableHead |
Mar bar Rav Ashi
ⓘ
linked to:
Rav Ashi
Rav ⓘ Rav Ashi ⓘ Rav Chisda ⓘ Rav Huna ⓘ |
| notableStudent |
Rav Chisda
ⓘ
Rav Huna ⓘ Rav Nachman bar Yaakov ⓘ |
| partOf |
Babylonian Talmudic academies
ⓘ
linked to:
Yeshivat Sura
|
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Rabbinic Judaism ⓘ |
| role |
center of Jewish legal interpretation
ⓘ
center of Jewish religious scholarship ⓘ |
| significantEvent | foundation of the Babylonian Talmudic tradition ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Amoraic period
ⓘ
Geonic period ⓘ |
| togetherWith |
Nehardea Academy
ⓘ
linked to:
Nehardea
Pumbedita Academy ⓘ
linked to:
Pumbedita academy
|
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: Sura Description of subject: Sura was an important Babylonian Talmudic academy that became a major center of Jewish religious scholarship and legal interpretation.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.