Shams-ud-Dīn
E134048
Shams-ud-Dīn is the formal given name of the famed 14th-century Persian lyric poet Hafez of Shiraz.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Shams-ud-Dīn canonical | 2 |
| Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad | 1 |
| شمسالدین | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1055043 — 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: Shams-ud-Dīn Context triple: [Hafez, givenName, Shams-ud-Dīn]
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A.
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
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B.
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim, better known by his regnal name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal emperor of India, renowned for his patronage of the arts and relatively liberal, if often indulgent, rule in the early 17th century.
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C.
Jalāl al-Dīn
Jalāl al-Dīn is the given name of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic widely known in the West as Rumi.
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D.
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas was a Persian architect of the Mughal era, best known for introducing grand Persian garden-tomb design to India.
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E.
Dalbandin
Dalbandin is a small town in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, known as an important stop along the Quetta–Taftan highway and for its proximity to the Chagai nuclear testing sites.
- 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: Shams-ud-Dīn Target entity description: Shams-ud-Dīn is the formal given name of the famed 14th-century Persian lyric poet Hafez of Shiraz.
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A.
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
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B.
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim
Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim, better known by his regnal name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal emperor of India, renowned for his patronage of the arts and relatively liberal, if often indulgent, rule in the early 17th century.
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C.
Jalāl al-Dīn
Jalāl al-Dīn is the given name of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic widely known in the West as Rumi.
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D.
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas
Mirak Mirza Ghiyas was a Persian architect of the Mughal era, best known for introducing grand Persian garden-tomb design to India.
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E.
Dalbandin
Dalbandin is a small town in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, known as an important stop along the Quetta–Taftan highway and for its proximity to the Chagai nuclear testing sites.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
given name
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Shiraz, Iran
ⓘ
surface form:
Shiraz
|
| alsoKnownAs |
Hafez
ⓘ
Hafez ⓘ
surface form:
Hafez of Shiraz
Hafez ⓘ
surface form:
Hafiz
|
| burialPlace |
Hafezieh
ⓘ
surface form:
Hafezieh, Shiraz
Tomb of Hafez ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran ⓘ |
| culture | Persian culture ⓘ |
| era |
Islamic Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Islamic Golden Age (late phase)
|
| ethnicity | Persian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | Persian literature ⓘ |
| floruit | 14th century ⓘ |
| genre |
ghazal
ⓘ
lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasCanonicalName |
Hafez
ⓘ
surface form:
Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī
|
| hasGivenName | Shams-ud-Dīn self-link ⓘ |
| honorificMeaning |
Apostle of Light
ⓘ
surface form:
Sun of the Faith
|
| honorificTitle | Hafez ⓘ |
| honorificTitleMeaning | one who has memorized the Quran ⓘ |
| influenced |
Friedrich Rückert
ⓘ
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ⓘ Persian poetry ⓘ Ralph Waldo Emerson ⓘ Urdu ghazal tradition ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Quran
ⓘ
Sufi mysticism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
mastery of the Persian ghazal
ⓘ
mystical and lyrical poetry ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Persian ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Persian ghazal ⓘ |
| movement | Sufism ⓘ |
| nationality | Persian ⓘ |
| nativeName |
Shams-ud-Dīn
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
شمسالدین
|
| notableWork | Divan of Hafez ⓘ |
| occupation |
lyric poet
ⓘ
poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Shiraz, Iran
ⓘ
surface form:
Shiraz
Shiraz, Iran ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Shiraz, Iran
ⓘ
surface form:
Shiraz
Shiraz, Iran ⓘ |
| region |
Fars Province
ⓘ
surface form:
Fars
|
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Hafez studies ⓘ |
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: Shams-ud-Dīn Description of subject: Shams-ud-Dīn is the formal given name of the famed 14th-century Persian lyric poet Hafez of Shiraz.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
شمسالدین