Mecca for Moderns
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Mecca for Moderns is a 1981 jazz and pop vocal album by The Manhattan Transfer known for its sophisticated harmonies and Grammy-winning performances.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mecca for Moderns canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13524684 — 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: Mecca for Moderns Context triple: [The Manhattan Transfer, notableAlbum, Mecca for Moderns]
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A.
Farewell to the Sacred Mosque
Farewell to the Sacred Mosque is the final circumambulation of the Kaaba performed by pilgrims before leaving Mecca at the end of Hajj.
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B.
Hajj in Kismet
Hajj in *Kismet* is the charismatic, roguish poet and beggar protagonist of the musical, whose adventures drive the story’s blend of romance, comedy, and fantasy.
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C.
The Spirit of Islam
The Spirit of Islam is a seminal scholarly work that presents a sympathetic, reformist interpretation of Islamic history, theology, and civilization for both Muslim and Western audiences.
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D.
Al Mandaq
Al Mandaq is a town in southwestern Saudi Arabia known for its mountainous terrain and cool climate within the Al Bahah region.
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E.
Gift of the Hijaz
Gift of the Hijaz is the English rendering of the title of Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Urdu and Persian poetry collection "Armaghan-e-Hijaz," reflecting its spiritual inspiration drawn from the holy region of the Hijaz.
- 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: Mecca for Moderns Target entity description: Mecca for Moderns is a 1981 jazz and pop vocal album by The Manhattan Transfer known for its sophisticated harmonies and Grammy-winning performances.
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A.
Farewell to the Sacred Mosque
Farewell to the Sacred Mosque is the final circumambulation of the Kaaba performed by pilgrims before leaving Mecca at the end of Hajj.
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B.
Hajj in Kismet
Hajj in *Kismet* is the charismatic, roguish poet and beggar protagonist of the musical, whose adventures drive the story’s blend of romance, comedy, and fantasy.
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C.
The Spirit of Islam
The Spirit of Islam is a seminal scholarly work that presents a sympathetic, reformist interpretation of Islamic history, theology, and civilization for both Muslim and Western audiences.
-
D.
Al Mandaq
Al Mandaq is a town in southwestern Saudi Arabia known for its mountainous terrain and cool climate within the Al Bahah region.
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E.
Gift of the Hijaz
Gift of the Hijaz is the English rendering of the title of Allama Muhammad Iqbal’s Urdu and Persian poetry collection "Armaghan-e-Hijaz," reflecting its spiritual inspiration drawn from the holy region of the Hijaz.
- 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: Mecca for Moderns Description of subject: Mecca for Moderns is a 1981 jazz and pop vocal album by The Manhattan Transfer known for its sophisticated harmonies and Grammy-winning performances.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.