Pir
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Pir is an honorific title used in Sufism to denote a spiritual guide or elder, often regarded as a saintly teacher and leader of a Sufi order.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pir canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16505673 — 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: Pir Context triple: [Pir Sayyid Ahmad Gailani, honorificTitle, Pir]
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A.
Pirde
Pirde is the Kurdish name for the town of Altun Kupri in northern Iraq, located between Erbil and Kirkuk.
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B.
Pirs
Pirs was a Russian docking compartment and airlock module on the International Space Station used for spacecraft docking and spacewalks.
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C.
Piro
Piro is a town in the Bhojpur district of Bihar, India, known as one of the district’s principal urban and commercial centers.
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D.
Piro
Piro is an alternate name for the Yine language, an indigenous Arawakan language spoken in Peru.
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E.
Pyr
Pyr is a science fiction and fantasy publishing imprint known for releasing speculative fiction titles under the Prometheus Books umbrella.
- 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: Pir Target entity description: Pir is an honorific title used in Sufism to denote a spiritual guide or elder, often regarded as a saintly teacher and leader of a Sufi order.
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A.
Pirde
Pirde is the Kurdish name for the town of Altun Kupri in northern Iraq, located between Erbil and Kirkuk.
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B.
Pirs
Pirs was a Russian docking compartment and airlock module on the International Space Station used for spacecraft docking and spacewalks.
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C.
Piro
Piro is an alternate name for the Yine language, an indigenous Arawakan language spoken in Peru.
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D.
Piro
Piro is a town in the Bhojpur district of Bihar, India, known as one of the district’s principal urban and commercial centers.
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E.
Pyr
Pyr is a science fiction and fantasy publishing imprint known for releasing speculative fiction titles under the Prometheus Books umbrella.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.