Omar Khayyam Shakil
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Omar Khayyam Shakil is a central, symbolically charged character in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Shame," whose unusual birth and upbringing reflect the book’s themes of identity, history, and political allegory.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Omar Khayyam Shakil canonical | 2 |
| Omar Khayyam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1392278 — 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.
Target entity: Omar Khayyam Shakil Context triple: [Shame, hasCharacter, Omar Khayyam Shakil]
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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a 13th-century Persian polymath renowned for his influential works in astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, and theology.
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Mir Ali Tabrizi
Mir Ali Tabrizi was a renowned 14th-century Persian calligrapher credited with pioneering the elegant Nastaʿlīq script that became the classical style of Persian writing.
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Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi was a 12th-century Persian poet renowned for his romantic epic masterpieces, especially the Khamsa (Quintet), which profoundly influenced Persian and wider Islamic literature.
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E.
Farid ud-Din Attar
Farid ud-Din Attar was a 12th–13th century Persian Sufi poet and mystic best known for his allegorical masterpiece "The Conference of the Birds," which profoundly shaped later Sufi literature and thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Omar Khayyam Shakil Target entity description: Omar Khayyam Shakil is a central, symbolically charged character in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Shame," whose unusual birth and upbringing reflect the book’s themes of identity, history, and political allegory.
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A.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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B.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a 13th-century Persian polymath renowned for his influential works in astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, and theology.
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C.
Mir Ali Tabrizi
Mir Ali Tabrizi was a renowned 14th-century Persian calligrapher credited with pioneering the elegant Nastaʿlīq script that became the classical style of Persian writing.
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D.
Nizami Ganjavi
Nizami Ganjavi was a 12th-century Persian poet renowned for his romantic epic masterpieces, especially the Khamsa (Quintet), which profoundly influenced Persian and wider Islamic literature.
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E.
Farid ud-Din Attar
Farid ud-Din Attar was a 12th–13th century Persian Sufi poet and mystic best known for his allegorical masterpiece "The Conference of the Birds," which profoundly shaped later Sufi literature and thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character in a novel
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fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Shame ⓘ |
| associatedTheme |
authoritarianism
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family secrecy ⓘ personal vs. national history ⓘ political violence ⓘ public vs. private shame ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Shakil sisters ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor | Salman Rushdie ⓘ |
| birthType | unusual birth ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | Pakistan ⓘ |
| creator | Salman Rushdie ⓘ |
| familyName | Shakil ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Shame (novel) ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Shame ⓘ |
| firstPublicationDateOfWork | 1983 ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
magic realism
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political novel ⓘ postcolonial literature ⓘ |
| givenName |
Omar Khayyam Shakil
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Omar Khayyam
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| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | late 20th century fiction ⓘ |
| literarySignificance | major character in Salman Rushdie’s oeuvre ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nameAllusion |
Omar Khayyam
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Omar Khayyam ⓘ
surface form:
Persian poet Omar Khayyam
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| narrativeFunction |
allegorical character
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symbolic figure ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | protagonist ⓘ |
| roleInWork | central character ⓘ |
| settingContext | fictionalized Pakistan ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
burden of history
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collective shame ⓘ fractured identity ⓘ moral ambiguity ⓘ |
| thematicAssociation |
guilt
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history ⓘ identity ⓘ political allegory ⓘ postcolonial identity ⓘ shame ⓘ violence ⓘ |
| upbringing | unconventional upbringing ⓘ |
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Subject: Omar Khayyam Shakil Description of subject: Omar Khayyam Shakil is a central, symbolically charged character in Salman Rushdie’s novel "Shame," whose unusual birth and upbringing reflect the book’s themes of identity, history, and political allegory.
Referenced by (3)
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