Amin Maalouf
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Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born French author and essayist renowned for his historical novels and explorations of identity, culture, and migration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Amin Maalouf canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6877577 — 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: Amin Maalouf Context triple: [Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française, notableOfficeHolder, Amin Maalouf]
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Nassim Maalouf
Nassim Maalouf is a Lebanese trumpeter known for pioneering the use of the quarter-tone trumpet and for his influence on Arabic and Middle Eastern brass music.
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B.
Émile Habibi
Émile Habibi was a prominent Palestinian Arab-Israeli writer and politician best known for his satirical novel "The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist."
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C.
Najeeb Halaby
Najeeb Halaby was an American businessman, lawyer, and former head of the Federal Aviation Administration who was also the father of Queen Noor of Jordan.
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D.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan-French novelist, poet, and essayist renowned for his explorations of immigration, identity, and human rights, and is one of the most translated contemporary Francophone authors.
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E.
Abdelmalek Droukdel
Abdelmalek Droukdel was an Algerian Islamist militant and emir of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, playing a key role in expanding Al-Qaeda’s operations across North and West Africa.
- 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: Amin Maalouf Target entity description: Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born French author and essayist renowned for his historical novels and explorations of identity, culture, and migration.
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A.
Nassim Maalouf
Nassim Maalouf is a Lebanese trumpeter known for pioneering the use of the quarter-tone trumpet and for his influence on Arabic and Middle Eastern brass music.
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B.
Émile Habibi
Émile Habibi was a prominent Palestinian Arab-Israeli writer and politician best known for his satirical novel "The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist."
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C.
Najeeb Halaby
Najeeb Halaby was an American businessman, lawyer, and former head of the Federal Aviation Administration who was also the father of Queen Noor of Jordan.
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D.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan-French novelist, poet, and essayist renowned for his explorations of immigration, identity, and human rights, and is one of the most translated contemporary Francophone authors.
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E.
Abdelmalek Droukdel
Abdelmalek Droukdel was an Algerian Islamist militant and emir of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, playing a key role in expanding Al-Qaeda’s operations across North and West Africa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| awarded | Prix Goncourt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedForWork | The Rock of Tanios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| background | Melkite Greek Catholic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
France
ⓘ
Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-02-25 ⓘ |
| employer |
An-Nahar
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jeune Afrique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Lebanese ⓘ |
| familyName | Maalouf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cultural studies
ⓘ
history ⓘ identity studies ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
ⓘ
historical novel ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Amin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWriting | French ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
cultural encounter
ⓘ
history of the Mediterranean ⓘ identity ⓘ migration ⓘ |
| memberOf | Académie française NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Francophone literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Amin Maalouf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
complex identity
ⓘ
cultural hybridity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Balthasar’s Odyssey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong NERFINISHED ⓘ Leo Africanus NERFINISHED ⓘ Ports of Call NERFINISHED ⓘ Samarkand NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crusades Through Arab Eyes NERFINISHED ⓘ The Disoriented NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rock of Tanios NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Beirut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Perpetual Secretary of the Académie française NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionStartTime | 2023 ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | France ⓘ |
| spouse | Andrée Maalouf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workedAs | foreign correspondent ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Amin Maalouf Description of subject: Amin Maalouf is a Lebanese-born French author and essayist renowned for his historical novels and explorations of identity, culture, and migration.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.