Haroun Khalifa
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Haroun Khalifa is the young, adventurous protagonist of Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," who embarks on a fantastical journey to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Haroun | 9 |
| Haroun Khalifa canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1368941 — 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: Haroun Khalifa Context triple: [Haroun and the Sea of Stories, mainCharacter, Haroun Khalifa]
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A.
Ali Hakim
Ali Hakim is a comic Persian peddler and charming rogue suitor in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Bahauddin Toukan
Bahauddin Toukan was a Jordanian diplomat and statesman known primarily as the father of Queen Alia al-Hussein of Jordan.
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C.
Harun
Harun is the Islamic prophet Aaron, brother of Moses, revered for his prophethood and leadership among the Israelites.
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D.
Elimah Rabbati
Elimah Rabbati is a major Kabbalistic work by the 16th-century mystic Moshe Cordovero, offering a systematic and influential exposition of Jewish mystical theology.
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E.
Yann Martel
Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for his philosophical novel "Life of Pi," which achieved international acclaim and widespread popularity.
- 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: Haroun Khalifa Target entity description: Haroun Khalifa is the young, adventurous protagonist of Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," who embarks on a fantastical journey to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift.
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A.
Ali Hakim
Ali Hakim is a comic Persian peddler and charming rogue suitor in the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma!".
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B.
Bahauddin Toukan
Bahauddin Toukan was a Jordanian diplomat and statesman known primarily as the father of Queen Alia al-Hussein of Jordan.
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C.
Harun
Harun is the Islamic prophet Aaron, brother of Moses, revered for his prophethood and leadership among the Israelites.
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D.
Elimah Rabbati
Elimah Rabbati is a major Kabbalistic work by the 16th-century mystic Moshe Cordovero, offering a systematic and influential exposition of Jewish mystical theology.
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E.
Yann Martel
Yann Martel is a Canadian author best known for his philosophical novel "Life of Pi," which achieved international acclaim and widespread popularity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ protagonist ⓘ |
| age | young boy ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Haroun and the Sea of Stories ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Butt the Hoopoe
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Chup ⓘ Gup City ⓘ Iff the Water Genie ⓘ Mali the Floating Gardener ⓘ Prince Bolo ⓘ Princess Batcheat ⓘ Rashid Khalifa ⓘ Sea of Stories ⓘ Soraya Khalifa ⓘ Walrus ⓘ |
| characterRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| createdBy | Salman Rushdie ⓘ |
| fightsAgainst | Khattam-Shud ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Haroun and the Sea of Stories ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| goal | to restore his father Rashid’s storytelling gift ⓘ |
| hasFather | Rashid Khalifa ⓘ |
| hasMother | Soraya Khalifa ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | fantasy ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | drives the quest to save the Sea of Stories ⓘ |
| notableFor |
adventurous nature
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fantastical journey ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1990 ⓘ |
| residesIn | Alifbay ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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young adults ⓘ |
| themeInvolvement |
censorship
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freedom of speech ⓘ power of storytelling ⓘ |
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: Haroun Khalifa Description of subject: Haroun Khalifa is the young, adventurous protagonist of Salman Rushdie’s novel "Haroun and the Sea of Stories," who embarks on a fantastical journey to restore his storyteller father’s lost gift.
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