Mount Arafat
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Mount Arafat is a granite hill near Mecca in Saudi Arabia that is central to the Hajj pilgrimage, where pilgrims gather for the pivotal ritual of standing (wuquf) on the 9th day of Dhu al-Hijjah.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mount Arafat canonical | 12 |
| Plain of Arafat | 9 |
| Wuquf at Arafat | 2 |
| Jabal Arafat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T340965 — 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: Mount Arafat Context triple: [Mecca, near, Mount Arafat]
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A.
Mount Uhud
Mount Uhud is a prominent mountain north of Medina in Saudi Arabia, historically significant as the site of the Battle of Uhud in early Islamic history.
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B.
Mausoleum of Yasser Arafat
The Mausoleum of Yasser Arafat is a memorial and tomb complex in Ramallah, West Bank, honoring the longtime Palestinian leader and former president of the Palestinian National Authority.
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C.
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai is the biblical mountain in the Sinai Peninsula where Moses is traditionally believed to have received God's law, making it a central site in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition.
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D.
Mount of Olives
The Mount of Olives is a prominent ridge east of Jerusalem that holds major religious significance, especially in Christianity and Judaism, as a site of biblical events and ancient Jewish cemeteries.
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E.
Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor is a prominent hill in northern Israel venerated in Christian tradition as the site of Jesus’ Transfiguration and a longstanding place of pilgrimage.
- 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: Mount Arafat Target entity description: Mount Arafat is a granite hill near Mecca in Saudi Arabia that is central to the Hajj pilgrimage, where pilgrims gather for the pivotal ritual of standing (wuquf) on the 9th day of Dhu al-Hijjah.
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A.
Mount Uhud
Mount Uhud is a prominent mountain north of Medina in Saudi Arabia, historically significant as the site of the Battle of Uhud in early Islamic history.
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B.
Mausoleum of Yasser Arafat
The Mausoleum of Yasser Arafat is a memorial and tomb complex in Ramallah, West Bank, honoring the longtime Palestinian leader and former president of the Palestinian National Authority.
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C.
Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai is the biblical mountain in the Sinai Peninsula where Moses is traditionally believed to have received God's law, making it a central site in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition.
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D.
Mount of Olives
The Mount of Olives is a prominent ridge east of Jerusalem that holds major religious significance, especially in Christianity and Judaism, as a site of biblical events and ancient Jewish cemeteries.
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E.
Mount Tabor
Mount Tabor is a prominent hill in northern Israel venerated in Christian tradition as the site of Jesus’ Transfiguration and a longstanding place of pilgrimage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hajj site
ⓘ
Islamic holy site ⓘ mountain ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | Farewell Sermon of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Day of Arafah
ⓘ
Muhammad ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
|
| category |
Hajj sites
ⓘ
Islamic holy places ⓘ Mountains of Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| centralRitual |
standing at Arafat
ⓘ
wuquf ⓘ |
| climate | arid desert climate ⓘ |
| country | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| distanceFromMecca | approximately 20 kilometers east ⓘ |
| elevation |
about 454 meters above sea level
ⓘ
about 70 meters above surrounding plain ⓘ |
| governedBy |
Saudi Arabia
ⓘ
surface form:
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
|
| hasAlternativeName |
Mount Arafat
ⓘ
surface form:
Jabal Arafat
جبل عرفة ⓘ
surface form:
Jabal ʿArafah
Mount of Mercy ⓘ |
| hasAnnualEvent |
Day of Arafah
ⓘ
surface form:
Day of Arafah gathering
|
| hasArabicName | جبل عرفة ⓘ |
| hasNearbySite |
Masjid Namirah
ⓘ
Mina ⓘ Muzdalifah ⓘ
surface form:
Plain of Muzdalifah
|
| hasReligiousStatus | place of forgiveness in Islamic belief ⓘ |
| hasStructure | pillar marking the place of standing ⓘ |
| importanceInHajj | wuquf at Arafat is essential for validity of Hajj ⓘ |
| languageOfToponym | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Hejaz
ⓘ
Makkah Province ⓘ Mount Arafat self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Plain of Arafat
|
| locatedNear | Mecca ⓘ |
| material | granite ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Mecca ⓘ |
| overseenBy | Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah ⓘ |
| partOf | Islamic pilgrimage route ⓘ |
| peakType | rocky hill ⓘ |
| pilgrimageSeason | Dhu al-Hijjah ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| ritualDate | 9th day of Dhu al-Hijjah ⓘ |
| significanceIn | Hajj ⓘ |
| timeZone | Arabia Standard Time ⓘ |
| transportAccess | Hajj transport routes from Mecca ⓘ |
| usedFor |
sermons during Hajj
ⓘ
supplication during Hajj ⓘ |
| visitedBy | millions of pilgrims annually ⓘ |
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: Mount Arafat Description of subject: Mount Arafat is a granite hill near Mecca in Saudi Arabia that is central to the Hajj pilgrimage, where pilgrims gather for the pivotal ritual of standing (wuquf) on the 9th day of Dhu al-Hijjah.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat
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Jabal Arafat
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat
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Wuquf at Arafat
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat
this entity surface form:
Plain of Arafat