Great Mosque of Damascus
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The Great Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest and most important monumental mosques in the world, renowned for its early Islamic architecture and continuous religious significance since the Umayyad era.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Great Mosque of Damascus canonical | 18 |
| Umayyad Mosque | 8 |
| Umayyad Mosque of Damascus | 3 |
| Umayyad Mosque complex | 2 |
| Umayyad Mosque in Damascus | 2 |
| Masjid Umayyad | 1 |
| Umayyad Great Mosque | 1 |
| Umayyad Mosque, Damascus | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341493 — 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: Great Mosque of Damascus Context triple: [Umayyad Caliphate, significantCulturalSite, Great Mosque of Damascus]
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A.
Quba Mosque
Quba Mosque is an important early Islamic mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, revered as the first mosque built by the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of Islam’s holiest sites, a historic congregational mosque in Jerusalem revered for its religious significance and its location within the sacred compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif.
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C.
Al-Azhar Mosque
Al-Azhar Mosque is one of the oldest and most influential Islamic religious and educational institutions in the world, renowned as a historic center of Sunni scholarship.
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D.
Dome of the Rock
The Dome of the Rock is an iconic Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, renowned for its golden dome and religious significance as one of the oldest surviving examples of Islamic architecture.
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E.
Masjid al-Qiblatayn
Masjid al-Qiblatayn is a historic mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, traditionally revered as the site where the direction of Muslim prayer (qibla) was changed from Jerusalem to Mecca.
- 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: Great Mosque of Damascus Target entity description: The Great Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest and most important monumental mosques in the world, renowned for its early Islamic architecture and continuous religious significance since the Umayyad era.
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A.
Quba Mosque
Quba Mosque is an important early Islamic mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, revered as the first mosque built by the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Al-Aqsa Mosque is one of Islam’s holiest sites, a historic congregational mosque in Jerusalem revered for its religious significance and its location within the sacred compound known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif.
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C.
Al-Azhar Mosque
Al-Azhar Mosque is one of the oldest and most influential Islamic religious and educational institutions in the world, renowned as a historic center of Sunni scholarship.
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D.
Dome of the Rock
The Dome of the Rock is an iconic Islamic shrine in Jerusalem, renowned for its golden dome and religious significance as one of the oldest surviving examples of Islamic architecture.
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E.
Masjid al-Qiblatayn
Masjid al-Qiblatayn is a historic mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, traditionally revered as the site where the direction of Muslim prayer (qibla) was changed from Jerusalem to Mecca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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
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Input
Subject: Great Mosque of Damascus Description of subject: The Great Mosque of Damascus is one of the oldest and most important monumental mosques in the world, renowned for its early Islamic architecture and continuous religious significance since the Umayyad era.
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
this entity surface form:
Masjid Umayyad
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque, Damascus
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
subject surface form:
Roman temple of Jupiter in Damascus
subject surface form:
Roman temple of Jupiter in Damascus
subject surface form:
Roman temple of Jupiter in Damascus
subject surface form:
Roman temple of Jupiter in Damascus
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Great Mosque
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque complex
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque complex
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque of Damascus
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque in Damascus
this entity surface form:
Umayyad Mosque of Damascus