Maʿadd
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Maʿadd is the personal name of the Fatimid caliph al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh, the ruler who oversaw the conquest of Egypt and the founding of Cairo in the 10th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maʿadd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5947255 — 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: Maʿadd Context triple: [al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh, givenName, Maʿadd]
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A.
Rumaitha
Rumaitha is a town in southern Iraq notable as one of the centers of resistance during the 1920 Iraqi revolt against British rule.
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B.
An-Najm
An-Najm is the 53rd chapter of the Qur’an, known for its powerful verses affirming the Prophet Muhammad’s divine revelation and warning against idolatry.
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C.
Nawbahar
Nawbahar was the mother of Mahmud of Ghazni, the prominent 11th-century sultan who founded the Ghaznavid Empire in present-day Afghanistan and northern India.
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D.
Awni
Awni is a masculine given name of Arabic origin, commonly used in the Middle East.
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E.
Syagha
Syagha is the summit of Mount Nebo, a historically and religiously significant peak traditionally associated with the biblical vantage point of Moses over the Promised Land.
- 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: Maʿadd Target entity description: Maʿadd is the personal name of the Fatimid caliph al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh, the ruler who oversaw the conquest of Egypt and the founding of Cairo in the 10th century.
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A.
Rumaitha
Rumaitha is a town in southern Iraq notable as one of the centers of resistance during the 1920 Iraqi revolt against British rule.
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B.
An-Najm
An-Najm is the 53rd chapter of the Qur’an, known for its powerful verses affirming the Prophet Muhammad’s divine revelation and warning against idolatry.
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C.
Nawbahar
Nawbahar was the mother of Mahmud of Ghazni, the prominent 11th-century sultan who founded the Ghaznavid Empire in present-day Afghanistan and northern India.
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D.
Awni
Awni is a masculine given name of Arabic origin, commonly used in the Middle East.
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E.
Syagha
Syagha is the summit of Mount Nebo, a historically and religiously significant peak traditionally associated with the biblical vantage point of Moses over the Promised Land.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fatimid caliph
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cairo
ⓘ
Egypt ⓘ Fatimid expansion into the eastern Mediterranean ⓘ |
| capitalFounded | Cairo ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 10th century ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Fatimid dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
Fatimid Caliphate
|
| governmentForm | Caliphal monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| ideology | Ismaʿili Shiʿism ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| memberOf | Fatimid Caliphate ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing Fatimid control over Egypt
ⓘ
making Cairo the political and religious center of the Fatimid Caliphate ⓘ |
| oversaw |
Fatimid conquest of Egypt
ⓘ
founding of Cairo ⓘ |
| personalNameOf | al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Caliph
ⓘ
Imam of the Fatimid Ismaʿili community ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Egypt
ⓘ
Ifriqiya ⓘ
linked to:
North Africa
North Africa ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInHistory | expanded Fatimid rule into Egypt ⓘ |
| roleInUrbanHistory | founder of Cairo as Fatimid capital ⓘ |
| successorStateTo | Ikhshidid rule in Egypt ⓘ |
| title | al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh ⓘ |
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: Maʿadd Description of subject: Maʿadd is the personal name of the Fatimid caliph al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh, the ruler who oversaw the conquest of Egypt and the founding of Cairo in the 10th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.