Surah Al-Fatiha
E27172
Surah Al-Fatiha is the opening chapter of the Quran, consisting of seven verses that serve as a fundamental prayer and summary of Islamic faith and guidance.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Surah Al-Fatiha canonical | 6 |
| Al-Fatiha | 4 |
| Al-Fātiḥah | 3 |
| Surah al-Fatiha | 2 |
| Al-Fatihah | 1 |
| Surah Al-Fatiha as central to Qur’anic recitation | 1 |
| Surah Al-Fatihah | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212139 — 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: Surah Al-Fatiha Context triple: [Quran, hasPart, Surah Al-Fatiha]
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A.
Quran
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Five Pillars of Islam
The Five Pillars of Islam are the fundamental acts of worship and devotion that structure a Muslim’s faith and practice, including declaration of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting in Ramadan, and pilgrimage to Mecca.
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C.
Allah
Allah is the singular, all-powerful and all-knowing God in Islam, regarded as the creator and sustainer of the universe.
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D.
Lord’s Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer is a central Christian prayer taught by Jesus as a model of how to pray, widely used in both personal devotion and public worship across Christian traditions.
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E.
Shema Yisrael
Shema Yisrael is a central Jewish declaration of faith affirming the oneness of God, traditionally recited daily and incorporated into various religious practices and texts.
- 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: Surah Al-Fatiha Target entity description: Surah Al-Fatiha is the opening chapter of the Quran, consisting of seven verses that serve as a fundamental prayer and summary of Islamic faith and guidance.
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A.
Quran
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be the literal word of God as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Five Pillars of Islam
The Five Pillars of Islam are the fundamental acts of worship and devotion that structure a Muslim’s faith and practice, including declaration of faith, prayer, almsgiving, fasting in Ramadan, and pilgrimage to Mecca.
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C.
Allah
Allah is the singular, all-powerful and all-knowing God in Islam, regarded as the creator and sustainer of the universe.
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D.
Lord’s Prayer
The Lord’s Prayer is a central Christian prayer taught by Jesus as a model of how to pray, widely used in both personal devotion and public worship across Christian traditions.
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E.
Shema Yisrael
Shema Yisrael is a central Jewish declaration of faith affirming the oneness of God, traditionally recited daily and incorporated into various religious practices and texts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic prayer
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Quranic surah ⓘ |
| addressedTo | Allah ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
As-Sab‘ al-Mathani
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The Seven Oft-Repeated ⓘ Umm al-Kitab ⓘ Umm al-Kitab ⓘ
surface form:
Umm al-Quran
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| canonicalStatus | part of the standard Uthmanic codex of the Quran ⓘ |
| centralTheme |
Day of Judgment
ⓘ
divine guidance ⓘ monotheism ⓘ supplication ⓘ worship of Allah alone ⓘ |
| chapterNumber | 1 ⓘ |
| containsPhrase | Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim ⓘ |
| function |
foundation of Islamic worship
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summary of Quranic message ⓘ |
| keySupplication | Guide us to the straight path ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| liturgicalUse |
opening of Quranic recitation
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recited in every unit of Muslim formal prayer (salah) ⓘ |
| mentionsAttributeOfAllah |
Lord of the worlds
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Master of the Day of Judgment ⓘ The Especially Merciful ⓘ The Most Merciful ⓘ |
| mentionsConcept |
straight path
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those favored by Allah ⓘ those who earned divine anger ⓘ those who went astray ⓘ |
| name |
Surah Al-Fatiha
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Al-Fatiha
|
| numberOfVerses | 7 ⓘ |
| placeInRevelation | Meccan surah ⓘ |
| positionInQuran | 1 ⓘ |
| recitationContext |
daily prayers
ⓘ
funeral prayers ⓘ supplications ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| revealedTo |
Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
|
| revelationLanguage | Classical Arabic ⓘ |
| scripture | Quran ⓘ |
| significanceInHadith | described as greatest surah of the Quran in some narrations ⓘ |
| statusInFiqh | considered essential part of salah in most Sunni schools ⓘ |
| structure |
acknowledgment of divine sovereignty
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exclusive devotion and seeking help ⓘ praise of Allah ⓘ supplication for guidance ⓘ |
| translationOfName | The Opening ⓘ |
| verseCountInPrayerUnit | 7 ⓘ |
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: Surah Al-Fatiha Description of subject: Surah Al-Fatiha is the opening chapter of the Quran, consisting of seven verses that serve as a fundamental prayer and summary of Islamic faith and guidance.
Referenced by (18)
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Surah Al-Fatihah
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Al-Fatiha
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Al-Fatihah
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Al-Fatiha
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Al-Fātiḥah
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Al-Fatiha
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Surah al-Fatiha
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Surah al-Fatiha
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Surah Al-Fatiha as central to Qur’anic recitation
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Al-Fatiha
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Al-Fātiḥah
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Al-Fātiḥah