Shukri al-Quwatli
E377535
Shukri al-Quwatli was a prominent Syrian nationalist leader and statesman who played a key role in Syria’s independence and served multiple terms as the country’s head of state in the mid-20th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shukri al-Quwatli canonical | 2 |
| Shukri al-Kuwatli | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3672270 — 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: Shukri al-Quwatli Context triple: [President of Syria, firstHolder, Shukri al-Quwatli]
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A.
Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Salah al-Din al-Bitar was a Syrian politician and ideologue who co-founded the Arab nationalist Ba'ath movement and served multiple terms as Syria’s prime minister in the 1960s.
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B.
Ahmad Shukeiri
Ahmad Shukeiri was a Palestinian lawyer and politician who became the founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1960s.
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C.
Ibrahim Tuqan
Ibrahim Tuqan was a prominent Palestinian poet and nationalist figure whose work, including the poem that became the anthem "Mawtini," played a key role in articulating early 20th-century Arab resistance and identity.
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D.
Abdel Gadir Salim
Abdel Gadir Salim is a renowned Sudanese singer, composer, and bandleader known for modernizing traditional Sudanese music and popularizing it internationally.
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E.
Abd al-Karim al-Jili
Abd al-Karim al-Jili was a prominent 14th–15th century Sufi mystic and philosopher best known for his metaphysical work "Al-Insan al-Kamil" ("The Perfect Man"), which elaborates on and systematizes Ibn Arabi’s doctrine of divine unity and human perfection.
- 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: Shukri al-Quwatli Target entity description: Shukri al-Quwatli was a prominent Syrian nationalist leader and statesman who played a key role in Syria’s independence and served multiple terms as the country’s head of state in the mid-20th century.
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A.
Salah al-Din al-Bitar
Salah al-Din al-Bitar was a Syrian politician and ideologue who co-founded the Arab nationalist Ba'ath movement and served multiple terms as Syria’s prime minister in the 1960s.
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B.
Ahmad Shukeiri
Ahmad Shukeiri was a Palestinian lawyer and politician who became the founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1960s.
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C.
Ibrahim Tuqan
Ibrahim Tuqan was a prominent Palestinian poet and nationalist figure whose work, including the poem that became the anthem "Mawtini," played a key role in articulating early 20th-century Arab resistance and identity.
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D.
Abdel Gadir Salim
Abdel Gadir Salim is a renowned Sudanese singer, composer, and bandleader known for modernizing traditional Sudanese music and popularizing it internationally.
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E.
Abd al-Karim al-Jili
Abd al-Karim al-Jili was a prominent 14th–15th century Sufi mystic and philosopher best known for his metaphysical work "Al-Insan al-Kamil" ("The Perfect Man"), which elaborates on and systematizes Ibn Arabi’s doctrine of divine unity and human perfection.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Syrian nationalist
ⓘ
head of state ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Honorary title "First Arab Citizen" from Gamal Abdel Nasser ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Syria ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Lebanon ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1891-05-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-06-30 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
|
| exileLocation |
Egypt
ⓘ
Saudi Arabia ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| familyName | al-Quwatli ⓘ |
| givenName | Shukri ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment | Syria ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Bloc (Syria) ⓘ |
| movement |
Arab nationalism
ⓘ
Syrian nationalism ⓘ |
| name |
Shukri al-Quwatli
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Shukri al-Kuwatli
Shukri al-Quwatli self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | helped secure Syrian independence from French mandate ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership in Syrian independence movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
nationalist leader
ⓘ
politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| officeContested | President of Syria ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
French High Commission in the Levant
ⓘ
surface form:
French colonial authorities in Syria
|
| overthrownBy |
1949 Syrian coup d'état
ⓘ
Husni al-Za'im ⓘ |
| participantIn |
Syrian independence movement
ⓘ
formation of the United Arab Republic ⓘ struggle against French Mandate in Syria ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Damascus ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Beirut ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Arab nationalist
ⓘ
anti-colonial ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of Syria ⓘ |
| religion | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Damascus ⓘ |
| supported | union between Syria and Egypt ⓘ |
| termEnd |
1949-04-06
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1958-02-22 ⓘ |
| termStart |
1943-08-17
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1955-09-06 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Shukri al-Quwatli Description of subject: Shukri al-Quwatli was a prominent Syrian nationalist leader and statesman who played a key role in Syria’s independence and served multiple terms as the country’s head of state in the mid-20th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Shukri al-Kuwatli