Hubal
E532338
Hubal was a major pre-Islamic Arabian deity, particularly revered at the Kaaba in Mecca as a central idol of the Quraysh tribe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hubal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5629608 — 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: Hubal Context triple: [Pre-Islamic Arabia, associatedDeity, Hubal]
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A.
Adbeel
Adbeel is a minor biblical figure listed in the Hebrew Bible as one of the sons of Ishmael and a progenitor of an Ishmaelite tribe.
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B.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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D.
Chemosh
Chemosh is the chief national god of the ancient Moabites, often linked with war, conquest, and sometimes child sacrifice in Near Eastern religious traditions.
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E.
Surallah
Surallah is a landlocked agricultural municipality in the province of South Cotabato in the Philippines, known for its rice and corn production and its role as a commercial hub in the Allah Valley.
- 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: Hubal Target entity description: Hubal was a major pre-Islamic Arabian deity, particularly revered at the Kaaba in Mecca as a central idol of the Quraysh tribe.
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A.
Adbeel
Adbeel is a minor biblical figure listed in the Hebrew Bible as one of the sons of Ishmael and a progenitor of an Ishmaelite tribe.
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B.
Baal
Baal is a prominent ancient Near Eastern storm and fertility god widely worshipped across Phoenician and Canaanite cultures.
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C.
Baal
Baal is a 1918 expressionist play by Bertolt Brecht that follows the amoral, self-destructive life of a bohemian poet.
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D.
Chemosh
Chemosh is the chief national god of the ancient Moabites, often linked with war, conquest, and sometimes child sacrifice in Near Eastern religious traditions.
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E.
Surallah
Surallah is a landlocked agricultural municipality in the province of South Cotabato in the Philippines, known for its rice and corn production and its role as a commercial hub in the Allah Valley.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
deity
ⓘ
pre-Islamic Arabian deity ⓘ |
| associatedPeople | Quraysh ⓘ |
| associatedPractice | casting lots with arrows ⓘ |
| associatedTribe | Quraysh ⓘ |
| category |
Arabian gods
ⓘ
pre-Islamic deities ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | Allah in Islamic monotheism ⓘ |
| cultObject | idol ⓘ |
| cultObjectLocation | inside the Kaaba ⓘ |
| cultStatus | major deity in Mecca ⓘ |
| cultSuppressedBy |
Islamic monotheism
ⓘ
linked to:
Islam
|
| destroyedBy | early Muslims ⓘ |
| destroyedDuring | conquest of Mecca ⓘ |
| divinationMethod | arrows ⓘ |
| fate | destroyed after the Islamic conquest of Mecca ⓘ |
| function |
deity consulted by divination
ⓘ
oracular deity ⓘ |
| iconType | anthropomorphic idol (according to some reports) ⓘ |
| influence | central to Meccan religious life before Islam ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Arabic ⓘ |
| legacy | symbol of pre-Islamic paganism in Islamic historiography ⓘ |
| majorCultCenter | Mecca ⓘ |
| materialOfIdol | stone (according to traditional reports) ⓘ |
| mentionedBy | Ibn al-Kalbi ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | early Islamic historical sources ⓘ |
| mythology | Arabian mythology ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Muhammad
ⓘ
early Muslims ⓘ |
| region |
Arabian Peninsula
ⓘ
Hijaz ⓘ
linked to:
Hejaz
|
| religion | pre-Islamic Arabian religion ⓘ |
| religiousContext | polytheistic cult at the Kaaba ⓘ |
| religiousRole |
central idol of the Kaaba before Islam
ⓘ
chief idol of the Quraysh ⓘ |
| roleInSociety |
associated with tribal identity of Quraysh
ⓘ
consulted for important communal decisions ⓘ |
| statusInIslam | considered a pagan idol ⓘ |
| worshipEnded | 7th century ⓘ |
| worshippedBy |
Quraysh
ⓘ
other pre-Islamic Arab tribes ⓘ |
| worshipPeriod | pre-Islamic era ⓘ |
| worshipPlace | Kaaba ⓘ |
| worshipProhibitedBy | Islam ⓘ |
| worshipType | idolatry ⓘ |
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: Hubal Description of subject: Hubal was a major pre-Islamic Arabian deity, particularly revered at the Kaaba in Mecca as a central idol of the Quraysh tribe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.