Ilish Sidra
E581950
Ilish Sidra is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, known for his illicit relationship with Nabawiyya and his role in the social and moral tensions of early 20th-century Cairo.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ilish Sidra canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6247750 — 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: Ilish Sidra Context triple: [Nabawiyya, hasAffairWith, Ilish Sidra]
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A.
Frisches Haff
Frisches Haff is a shallow lagoon of the Baltic Sea on the border of present-day Poland and Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast, historically significant as a strategic coastal area during World War II.
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B.
Morone
Morone is a genus of temperate bass fishes that includes several important North American sport and food species.
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C.
Lamut
Lamut is an indigenous Siberian people of northeastern Russia, more commonly known as the Even.
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D.
Salmon
Salmon is a common name for several species of migratory fish in the family Salmonidae, widely known as a popular food source and for their remarkable upstream spawning journeys.
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E.
Pomfret
Pomfret is a small, historic town in northeastern Connecticut known for its rural character, scenic landscapes, and prestigious boarding schools.
- 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: Ilish Sidra Target entity description: Ilish Sidra is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, known for his illicit relationship with Nabawiyya and his role in the social and moral tensions of early 20th-century Cairo.
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A.
Frisches Haff
Frisches Haff is a shallow lagoon of the Baltic Sea on the border of present-day Poland and Russia’s Kaliningrad Oblast, historically significant as a strategic coastal area during World War II.
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B.
Morone
Morone is a genus of temperate bass fishes that includes several important North American sport and food species.
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C.
Lamut
Lamut is an indigenous Siberian people of northeastern Russia, more commonly known as the Even.
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D.
Salmon
Salmon is a common name for several species of migratory fish in the family Salmonidae, widely known as a popular food source and for their remarkable upstream spawning journeys.
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E.
Pomfret
Pomfret is a small, historic town in northeastern Connecticut known for its rural character, scenic landscapes, and prestigious boarding schools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Palace Walk
NERFINISHED
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Palace of Desire NERFINISHED ⓘ Sugar Street NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cairo Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
adultery
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family conflict ⓘ moral tensions ⓘ social tensions ⓘ urban life in Cairo ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy | Naguib Mahfouz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Cairo Trilogy universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasIllicitRelationshipWith | Nabawiyya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | Egyptian realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | novel ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Egyptian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
embodying moral ambiguity in the Cairo Trilogy
ⓘ
illicit relationship with Nabawiyya ⓘ |
| partOfWorkBy | Naguib Mahfouz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeInFiction | Cairo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInNarrative | catalyst for family and social conflict ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | early 20th-century Cairo ⓘ |
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: Ilish Sidra Description of subject: Ilish Sidra is a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, known for his illicit relationship with Nabawiyya and his role in the social and moral tensions of early 20th-century Cairo.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.