Sultan Yacoub
E748768
Sultan Yacoub is a village in southern Lebanon near the Syrian border, known primarily as the site of a major 1982 Lebanon War battle between Israeli and Syrian forces.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sultan Yacoub canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8657503 — 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: Sultan Yacoub Context triple: [Battle of Sultan Yacoub, place, Sultan Yacoub]
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A.
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh was a 10th-century Fatimid caliph best known for expanding his dynasty’s rule into Egypt and founding Cairo as its new capital.
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B.
Sulaiman El-Hadi
Sulaiman El-Hadi was an American poet and performer best known for his influential work with the pioneering spoken-word and proto-rap group The Last Poets.
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C.
Al-Ashraf Musa
Al-Ashraf Musa was a medieval Muslim ruler of the Ayyubid dynasty who governed parts of Syria and played a role in the region’s shifting political landscape after Saladin’s era.
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D.
Sultan al-Kamil
Sultan al-Kamil was the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and a key Muslim leader during the Fifth Crusade, known for his diplomatic encounter with Saint Francis of Assisi.
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E.
al-Malik al-Zahir
al-Malik al-Zahir was the regnal title of the Mamluk sultan Baibars, a powerful 13th-century ruler of Egypt and Syria known for his military campaigns against the Crusaders and Mongols.
- 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: Sultan Yacoub Target entity description: Sultan Yacoub is a village in southern Lebanon near the Syrian border, known primarily as the site of a major 1982 Lebanon War battle between Israeli and Syrian forces.
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A.
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh was a 10th-century Fatimid caliph best known for expanding his dynasty’s rule into Egypt and founding Cairo as its new capital.
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B.
Sulaiman El-Hadi
Sulaiman El-Hadi was an American poet and performer best known for his influential work with the pioneering spoken-word and proto-rap group The Last Poets.
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C.
Al-Ashraf Musa
Al-Ashraf Musa was a medieval Muslim ruler of the Ayyubid dynasty who governed parts of Syria and played a role in the region’s shifting political landscape after Saladin’s era.
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D.
Sultan al-Kamil
Sultan al-Kamil was the Ayyubid sultan of Egypt and a key Muslim leader during the Fifth Crusade, known for his diplomatic encounter with Saint Francis of Assisi.
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E.
al-Malik al-Zahir
al-Malik al-Zahir was the regnal title of the Mamluk sultan Baibars, a powerful 13th-century ruler of Egypt and Syria known for his military campaigns against the Crusaders and Mongols.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
battle
ⓘ
village ⓘ |
| borderProximity | near Syria ⓘ |
| conflict | 1982 Lebanon War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country |
Lebanon
ⓘ
Lebanon ⓘ |
| date | June 1982 ⓘ |
| geographicalFeature | rural settlement ⓘ |
| hasEvent | Battle of Sultan Yacoub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | Battle of Sultan Yacoub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageUsed | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn | southern Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInAdministrativeEntity |
Beqaa Governorate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Western Beqaa District NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Syrian border ⓘ |
| location | Sultan Yacoub NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participant |
Israel Defense Forces
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Syrian Arab Army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Beqaa Valley
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lebanon War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam (majority) ⓘ |
| timeZone |
Eastern European Summer Time
ⓘ
Eastern European Time ⓘ |
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: Sultan Yacoub Description of subject: Sultan Yacoub is a village in southern Lebanon near the Syrian border, known primarily as the site of a major 1982 Lebanon War battle between Israeli and Syrian forces.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.