Amina
E146613
Amina is the gentle, devout, and sheltered matriarch at the heart of Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Palace Walk," embodying traditional family values in early 20th-century Cairo.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Amina canonical | 6 |
| Amina Sinai | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1251054 — 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: Amina Context triple: [Palace Walk, mainCharacter, Amina]
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A.
Aisha
Aisha is a central female character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Palace of Desire," whose relationships and personal struggles reflect the broader social and emotional tensions of early 20th-century Cairo.
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B.
Khadija
Khadija is a central female character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Palace of Desire," known for her strong will, evolving maturity, and role within the complex dynamics of the Abd al-Jawad family.
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C.
Leila
Leila is a tragic female character in Lord Byron’s narrative poem "The Giaour," whose fate embodies themes of forbidden love, betrayal, and vengeance.
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D.
Hanan
Hanan is a given name most notably borne by Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar Hanan Ashrawi.
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E.
Hamida
Hamida is a central, ambitious young woman in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," whose desire to escape poverty and traditional constraints drives much of the story’s conflict.
- 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: Amina Target entity description: Amina is the gentle, devout, and sheltered matriarch at the heart of Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Palace Walk," embodying traditional family values in early 20th-century Cairo.
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A.
Aisha
Aisha is a central female character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Palace of Desire," whose relationships and personal struggles reflect the broader social and emotional tensions of early 20th-century Cairo.
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B.
Khadija
Khadija is a central female character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Palace of Desire," known for her strong will, evolving maturity, and role within the complex dynamics of the Abd al-Jawad family.
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C.
Leila
Leila is a tragic female character in Lord Byron’s narrative poem "The Giaour," whose fate embodies themes of forbidden love, betrayal, and vengeance.
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D.
Hanan
Hanan is a given name most notably borne by Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar Hanan Ashrawi.
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E.
Hamida
Hamida is a central, ambitious young woman in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," whose desire to escape poverty and traditional constraints drives much of the story’s conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ novel character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Palace Walk
ⓘ
The Cairo Trilogy ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
family life
ⓘ
gender roles ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ religious devotion ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
devout
ⓘ
gentle ⓘ sheltered ⓘ |
| createdBy | Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Egyptian society ⓘ |
| embodies | traditional family values ⓘ |
| familyRole |
mother
ⓘ
wife ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Palace Walk ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | realist novel ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Egyptian ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
emotional dependence on family
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obedience to her husband ⓘ strong religious faith ⓘ |
| religionInFiction | Islam ⓘ |
| residenceInFiction | family house in Cairo ⓘ |
| roleInWork | matriarch ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Cairo ⓘ |
| spouseInFiction |
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
ⓘ
surface form:
Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
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| timePeriodInFiction | early 20th century ⓘ |
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: Amina Description of subject: Amina is the gentle, devout, and sheltered matriarch at the heart of Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Palace Walk," embodying traditional family values in early 20th-century Cairo.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Amina Sinai