Battle of Nahrawan

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battle military conflict

The Battle of Nahrawan was a pivotal 7th-century conflict in early Islamic history in which Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib’s forces crushed the Kharijite rebels near the Nahrawan Canal in present-day Iraq.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Battle of Nahrawan canonical	4

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	battle ⓘ military conflict ⓘ
approximateStrengthAliForces	several thousand troops ⓘ
approximateStrengthKharijites	around 4,000 fighters ⓘ
associatedWith	Kufa ⓘ
belligerent	Kharijite rebels ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ surface form: Rashidun Caliphate under Ali ibn Abi Talib
casualtiesAliForces	relatively low ⓘ
casualtiesKharijites	very high ⓘ
combatant	Kharijism ⓘ surface form: Kharijites forces of Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ
commander	Abd Allah ibn Wahb al-Rasibi ⓘ Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ
conflict	First Fitna ⓘ
date	38 AH ⓘ 658 ⓘ 658 CE ⓘ
followedBy	assassination of Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ continued Kharijite insurgency ⓘ
hasCause	dispute over arbitration after the Battle of Siffin ⓘ rebellion of Kharijites against Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ
historicalSignificance	important precedent for dealing with internal rebellion in early Islam ⓘ key event in the consolidation of Ali’s authority ⓘ major episode in the history of the Kharijite movement ⓘ
involves	Kharijite secession from Ali’s camp ⓘ suppression of religious-political dissent ⓘ
languageOfPrimarySources	Arabic ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay	Iraq ⓘ
notableFor	demonstration of Ali’s military leadership ⓘ near annihilation of the Kharijite army ⓘ pivotal role in shaping Kharijite identity ⓘ
opponentOf	Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ Kharijism ⓘ surface form: Kharijites
partOf	First Fitna ⓘ early Islamic civil wars ⓘ
place	Nahrawan Canal ⓘ near Nahrawan, Iraq ⓘ present-day Iraq ⓘ
precededBy	Battle of Siffin ⓘ
recordedIn	Islamic historical chronicles ⓘ hadith and early Islamic historiography ⓘ
religiousContext	Sunni–Shia historical narrative ⓘ early Islamic history ⓘ
result	decisive victory for Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ defeat of the Kharijites ⓘ
strategicLocation	near the Nahrawan Canal ⓘ
timePeriod	7th century ⓘ Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ surface form: Rashidun Caliphate era

How these facts were elicited

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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
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- 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: Battle of Nahrawan
Description of subject: The Battle of Nahrawan was a pivotal 7th-century conflict in early Islamic history in which Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib’s forces crushed the Kharijite rebels near the Nahrawan Canal in present-day Iraq.

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kharijism → notableBattle → Battle of Nahrawan ⓘ

First Fitna → hasPart → Battle of Nahrawan ⓘ

Battle of Siffin → followedBy → Battle of Nahrawan ⓘ

Islamic civil wars → hasComponentConflict → Battle of Nahrawan ⓘ