Yemeni corner
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The Yemeni corner is the southwestern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, revered in Islamic tradition as a spot where many pilgrims touch or gesture toward it while performing the circumambulation (tawaf).
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yemeni corner canonical | 1 |
| Yemeni corner of the Kaaba | 1 |
| باب اليمن | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341097 — 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: Yemeni corner Context triple: [Kaaba, corner, Yemeni corner]
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A.
Yemen
Yemen is a country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, known for its ancient history, strategic Red Sea coastline, and ongoing complex humanitarian and political crises.
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B.
Aden
Aden is a strategic port city in Yemen located on the Gulf of Aden, historically significant as a major maritime hub and former British colonial stronghold.
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C.
Sanaʽa
Sanaʽa is the historic capital and one of the largest cities of Yemen, renowned for its ancient architecture and cultural significance in the Arabian Peninsula.
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D.
Southern Arabia
Southern Arabia is the historically and geographically significant southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula, encompassing areas such as modern-day Yemen and parts of Oman, known for its ancient trade routes and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Hazaragi
Hazaragi is a variety of Persian primarily spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and surrounding regions, distinguished by its unique phonology and significant Turkic and Mongolic influences.
- 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: Yemeni corner Target entity description: The Yemeni corner is the southwestern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, revered in Islamic tradition as a spot where many pilgrims touch or gesture toward it while performing the circumambulation (tawaf).
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A.
Yemen
Yemen is a country on the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, known for its ancient history, strategic Red Sea coastline, and ongoing complex humanitarian and political crises.
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B.
Aden
Aden is a strategic port city in Yemen located on the Gulf of Aden, historically significant as a major maritime hub and former British colonial stronghold.
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C.
Sanaʽa
Sanaʽa is the historic capital and one of the largest cities of Yemen, renowned for its ancient architecture and cultural significance in the Arabian Peninsula.
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D.
Southern Arabia
Southern Arabia is the historically and geographically significant southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula, encompassing areas such as modern-day Yemen and parts of Oman, known for its ancient trade routes and rich cultural heritage.
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E.
Hazaragi
Hazaragi is a variety of Persian primarily spoken by the Hazara people of central Afghanistan and surrounding regions, distinguished by its unique phonology and significant Turkic and Mongolic influences.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architectural element
ⓘ
religious site feature ⓘ |
| adjacentTo |
southern wall of the Kaaba
ⓘ
western wall of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| associatedAction |
gesturing toward it by pilgrims
ⓘ
touching by pilgrims ⓘ |
| associatedBelief | supplications there are more likely to be accepted according to some traditions ⓘ |
| associatedRitual | tawaf ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Hajj
ⓘ
Umrah ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
Black Stone
ⓘ
Kaaba ⓘ
surface form:
Kaaba corners
|
| considered | blessed place by many Muslims ⓘ |
| cornerType | one of the four corners of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| directionRelativeToBlackStone | precedes Black Stone in counterclockwise tawaf ⓘ |
| hasArabicName | الركن اليماني ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation | historical links between the Hijaz and Yemen ⓘ |
| hasReligiousTradition | Islam ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration | al-Rukn al-Yamani ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Makkah Province
ⓘ
Masjid al-Haram ⓘ Mecca ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| location | southwestern corner of the Kaaba ⓘ |
| materialContext | part of the Kaaba’s masonry structure ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Yemen ⓘ |
| nearTo | southern side of the Mataf area ⓘ |
| oppositeCorner |
Iraqi corner
ⓘ
Levantine corner ⓘ |
| orientation | faces roughly toward Yemen ⓘ |
| partOf |
Kaaba
ⓘ
tawaf path ⓘ |
| religiousPractice | some pilgrims attempt to touch it each circuit of tawaf ⓘ |
| religiousStatus | sacred in Islamic tradition ⓘ |
| ritualDirection | encountered before the Black Stone in each tawaf circuit ⓘ |
| significance | revered spot during tawaf ⓘ |
| visitedBy | pilgrims to Mecca ⓘ |
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: Yemeni corner Description of subject: The Yemeni corner is the southwestern corner of the Kaaba in Mecca, revered in Islamic tradition as a spot where many pilgrims touch or gesture toward it while performing the circumambulation (tawaf).
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Yemeni corner of the Kaaba
this entity surface form:
باب اليمن