Hafez
E22782
Hafez was a 14th-century Persian lyric poet renowned for his ghazals, which explore themes of love, mysticism, and the divine, and remain central to Persian literature and culture.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hafez canonical | 35 |
| Hafiz | 4 |
| Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī | 3 |
| Divan of Hafez | 1 |
| Hafez of Shiraz | 1 |
| Hafiz of Shiraz | 1 |
| Hāfez | 1 |
| Poet Hafiz of Shiraz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T176608 — 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: Hafez Context triple: [Persian language, hasNotableAuthor, Hafez]
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A.
Rumi
Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic whose spiritually profound and lyrical works have made him one of the most beloved poets in world literature.
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B.
Ali Hakim
Ali Hakim is a comic Persian peddler and charming rogue suitor in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Omid Kordestani
Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
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D.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
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E.
Achmed Abdullah
Achmed Abdullah was a Russian-born American writer and screenwriter known for his exotic adventure tales and contributions to early Hollywood cinema.
- 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: Hafez Target entity description: Hafez was a 14th-century Persian lyric poet renowned for his ghazals, which explore themes of love, mysticism, and the divine, and remain central to Persian literature and culture.
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A.
Rumi
Rumi was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic whose spiritually profound and lyrical works have made him one of the most beloved poets in world literature.
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B.
Ali Hakim
Ali Hakim is a comic Persian peddler and charming rogue suitor in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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C.
Omid Kordestani
Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
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D.
Ramin
Ramin is a masculine given name of Persian origin, commonly used in Iran and among Persian-speaking communities.
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E.
Achmed Abdullah
Achmed Abdullah was a Russian-born American writer and screenwriter known for his exotic adventure tales and contributions to early Hollywood cinema.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Persian poet
ⓘ
Sufi poet ⓘ lyric poet ⓘ mystic ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| birthName |
Shams-ud-Dīn
ⓘ
surface form:
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad
|
| centuryOfActivity | 14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Mongol Ilkhanate
ⓘ
surface form:
Ilkhanate
|
| culturalSignificance |
central figure in Persian literature
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used for bibliomancy (fal-e Hafez) ⓘ widely memorized in Iran ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1315 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | circa 1390 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Persian ⓘ |
| genre |
ghazal
ⓘ
lyric poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Shams-ud-Dīn ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle |
Khwāja
ⓘ
Lisān al-Ghayb ⓘ Lisān al-Ghayb ⓘ
surface form:
Tarjumān al-Asrār
Tongue of the Unseen ⓘ |
| hasPlaceOfBurial | Tomb of Hafez ⓘ |
| influenced |
Romanticism
ⓘ
surface form:
German Romanticism
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ⓘ
surface form:
Goethe
Persian literature ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Persian ⓘ |
| movement |
Persian mysticism
ⓘ
Sufism ⓘ |
| name |
Hafez
self-link
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Hafez self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hafiz
Hafez self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī
|
| nativeLanguage |
Persian language
ⓘ
surface form:
Persian
|
| notableWork |
Collected Ghazals
ⓘ
Divan of Hafez ⓘ |
| occupation |
Quran reciter
ⓘ
poet ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Fars
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ Shiraz, Iran ⓘ
surface form:
Shiraz
|
| placeOfBurial |
Iran
ⓘ
Shiraz, Iran ⓘ
surface form:
Shiraz
|
| placeOfDeath |
Fars
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ Shiraz, Iran ⓘ
surface form:
Shiraz
|
| primaryTheme |
critique of hypocrisy
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love ⓘ mysticism ⓘ spiritual ecstasy ⓘ the divine ⓘ wine symbolism ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
Sufism ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
ambiguity
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intricate wordplay ⓘ metaphorical language ⓘ |
| workCollectionTitle |
Divan of Hafez
ⓘ
surface form:
Dīvān-e Hāfez
|
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: Hafez Description of subject: Hafez was a 14th-century Persian lyric poet renowned for his ghazals, which explore themes of love, mysticism, and the divine, and remain central to Persian literature and culture.
Referenced by (47)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Divan of Hafez
this entity surface form:
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī
this entity surface form:
Hafiz
this entity surface form:
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī
this entity surface form:
Hāfez
this entity surface form:
Hafiz
this entity surface form:
Hafez of Shiraz
this entity surface form:
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī
this entity surface form:
Poet Hafiz of Shiraz
this entity surface form:
Hafiz of Shiraz
this entity surface form:
Hafiz