Cave Hira
E341395
Cave Hira is a small mountain cave near Mecca revered in Islam as the site where the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelation from God through the angel Gabriel.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cave Hira canonical | 3 |
| Hira Cave | 2 |
| Hira Cave entrance | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3268167 — 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: Cave Hira Context triple: [Surah Al-Alaq, placeOfRevelation, Cave Hira]
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A.
Sunyaragi Cave
Sunyaragi Cave is a historic water palace and cave complex in Cirebon, Indonesia, notable for its unique blend of Javanese, Islamic, and European architectural influences and its use as a royal retreat and meditation site.
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B.
Cathedral Cave
Cathedral Cave is a dramatic sea cave on the Isle of Eigg in Scotland, known for its towering basalt walls, acoustics, and striking natural “cathedral-like” interior.
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C.
Sataplia Cave
Sataplia Cave is a popular karst cave and nature reserve in western Georgia, renowned for its impressive stalactites, stalagmites, and nearby dinosaur footprint sites.
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D.
King's Cave
King's Cave is a coastal cave on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, noted for its archaeological significance and associations with local legends.
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E.
Minnaar’s Cave
Minnaar’s Cave is a fossil-bearing cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage area, known for its contributions to the study of human evolution and paleontology.
- 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: Cave Hira Target entity description: Cave Hira is a small mountain cave near Mecca revered in Islam as the site where the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelation from God through the angel Gabriel.
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A.
Sunyaragi Cave
Sunyaragi Cave is a historic water palace and cave complex in Cirebon, Indonesia, notable for its unique blend of Javanese, Islamic, and European architectural influences and its use as a royal retreat and meditation site.
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B.
Cathedral Cave
Cathedral Cave is a dramatic sea cave on the Isle of Eigg in Scotland, known for its towering basalt walls, acoustics, and striking natural “cathedral-like” interior.
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C.
Sataplia Cave
Sataplia Cave is a popular karst cave and nature reserve in western Georgia, renowned for its impressive stalactites, stalagmites, and nearby dinosaur footprint sites.
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D.
King's Cave
King's Cave is a coastal cave on the Isle of Arran in Scotland, noted for its archaeological significance and associations with local legends.
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E.
Minnaar’s Cave
Minnaar’s Cave is a fossil-bearing cave site within South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage area, known for its contributions to the study of human evolution and paleontology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic holy site
ⓘ
cave ⓘ religious site ⓘ |
| access | on foot via steep path ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
Gabriel ⓘ
surface form:
angel Gabriel
|
| associatedWithEvent | first revelation to Muhammad ⓘ |
| associatedWithSurah |
Surah Al-Alaq
ⓘ
surface form:
Surah al-Alaq
|
| associatedWithText |
Quran
ⓘ
surface form:
Qur’an
|
| associatedWithVerse | “Iqra” (Read/Recite) ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn |
Islamic educational materials
ⓘ
Islamic literature ⓘ Islamic sermons ⓘ |
| country | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| culturalSignificance |
important site in Islamic history
ⓘ
symbol of beginning of Islamic revelation ⓘ |
| distanceFromMeccaCenter | a few kilometers ⓘ |
| elevationRelativeToMecca | on mountain above city ⓘ |
| firstRevelationContent | verses 1–5 of Surah al-Alaq ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName | Ghar Hira ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeTransliteration | Hira Cave ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfName | Arabic ⓘ |
| hasNameInArabic | غار حراء ⓘ |
| hasPhysicalCharacteristic |
rocky mountain cave
ⓘ
small interior space ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition | Islam ⓘ |
| linkedToAngel |
Jibril
ⓘ
surface form:
Gabriel (Jibril)
|
| linkedToProphet | Muhammad ⓘ |
| linkedToPropheticBiography | Sira of Muhammad ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Jabal al-Nour ⓘ |
| locatedInCountry | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| locatedNear | Mecca ⓘ |
| nearbyCity | Mecca ⓘ |
| overlooks |
Mecca
ⓘ
surface form:
Mecca area
|
| partOf |
Hejaz
ⓘ
surface form:
Hejaz region
|
| pilgrimagePractice | climbing Jabal al-Nour to visit cave ⓘ |
| region | Makkah Province ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| significanceInIslam | site of first Qur’anic revelation ⓘ |
| spiritualAssociation |
contemplation
ⓘ
revelation ⓘ |
| timeOfKeyEvent | early 7th century CE ⓘ |
| timeOfKeyEventInIslamicCalendar | around 610 CE ⓘ |
| tourismType | religious tourism ⓘ |
| usedFor |
meditation
ⓘ
spiritual retreat ⓘ |
| visitedBy | Muslim pilgrims ⓘ |
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: Cave Hira Description of subject: Cave Hira is a small mountain cave near Mecca revered in Islam as the site where the Prophet Muhammad received his first revelation from God through the angel Gabriel.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hira Cave
this entity surface form:
Hira Cave
this entity surface form:
Hira Cave entrance