al-Rukn al-Iraqi
E784872
al-Rukn al-Iraqi is one of the four corners of the Kaaba in Mecca, located on the northeastern side facing toward Iraq.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| al-Rukn al-Iraqi canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9220920 — 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: al-Rukn al-Iraqi Context triple: [al-Rukn al-Yamani, isDifferentFrom, al-Rukn al-Iraqi]
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A.
Ghazi of Iraq
Ghazi of Iraq was the second king of the Kingdom of Iraq, a Hashemite monarch who reigned from 1933 until his death in 1939 and was known for his Arab nationalist views and opposition to British influence.
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B.
Musa al-Kadhim
Musa al-Kadhim was the seventh Shia Imam, revered as a key religious authority whose teachings significantly shaped Twelver Shia theology and law.
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C.
Jafar al-Askari
Jafar al-Askari was an Iraqi military officer and statesman who played a key role in the Arab Revolt and later served as one of the early prime ministers of Iraq.
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D.
al-Taqi
al-Taqi is an honorific epithet meaning “the pious,” traditionally associated with the ninth Shia Imam, Muhammad al-Jawad.
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E.
al-Maliki
Al-Maliki is the surname of Nouri al-Maliki, a prominent Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
- 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: al-Rukn al-Iraqi Target entity description: al-Rukn al-Iraqi is one of the four corners of the Kaaba in Mecca, located on the northeastern side facing toward Iraq.
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A.
Ghazi of Iraq
Ghazi of Iraq was the second king of the Kingdom of Iraq, a Hashemite monarch who reigned from 1933 until his death in 1939 and was known for his Arab nationalist views and opposition to British influence.
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B.
Musa al-Kadhim
Musa al-Kadhim was the seventh Shia Imam, revered as a key religious authority whose teachings significantly shaped Twelver Shia theology and law.
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C.
Jafar al-Askari
Jafar al-Askari was an Iraqi military officer and statesman who played a key role in the Arab Revolt and later served as one of the early prime ministers of Iraq.
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D.
al-Taqi
al-Taqi is an honorific epithet meaning “the pious,” traditionally associated with the ninth Shia Imam, Muhammad al-Jawad.
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E.
al-Maliki
Al-Maliki is the surname of Nouri al-Maliki, a prominent Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic religious site
ⓘ
corner of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
al-Rukn al-Aswad
ⓘ
linked to:
al-Ḥajar al-Aswad
al-Rukn al-Shami ⓘ al-Rukn al-Yamani ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Qibla
ⓘ
linked to:
Qibla (toward the Kaaba)
|
| coveredBy | Kiswah of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| direction | northeastern side of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| facesToward | Iraq ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Iraqi Corner ⓘ |
| hasNameInArabic | الركن العراقي ⓘ |
| hasOrientation | toward northeastern side of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| hasReligiousSignificanceIn | Islam ⓘ |
| isDistinctFrom |
al-Rukn al-Aswad
ⓘ
linked to:
al-Ḥajar al-Aswad
al-Rukn al-Shami ⓘ al-Rukn al-Yamani ⓘ |
| isNear |
Hatim (Hijr Ismail)
ⓘ
linked to:
Hijr Ismail
|
| isPartOfRitualContext |
Hajj
ⓘ
Umrah ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Kaaba
ⓘ
Makkah Province ⓘ Masjid al-Haram ⓘ Mecca ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| material | stone structure of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| oneOf | four corners of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| partOf | Kaaba ⓘ |
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: al-Rukn al-Iraqi Description of subject: al-Rukn al-Iraqi is one of the four corners of the Kaaba in Mecca, located on the northeastern side facing toward Iraq.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.