Khidr
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Islamic religious figure
Qur’anic character
immortal being
mystical figure
saint in Islamic tradition
Khidr is a mysterious, immortal figure in Islamic tradition often associated with hidden wisdom, guidance, and esoteric knowledge, who appears in the Qur’anic story of Moses.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7593468 — 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: Khidr Context triple: [Musa and Khidr, featuresCharacter, Khidr]
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A.
Musa and Khidr
Musa and Khidr is a Qur’anic narrative in Surah Al-Kahf that recounts Prophet Moses’ journey with the mysterious figure Khidr to illustrate the limits of human understanding and the hidden wisdom behind divine decree.
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B.
Jibreel Khazan
Jibreel Khazan, born Ezell Blair Jr., is a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in North Carolina.
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C.
Dhul-Qarnayn
Dhul-Qarnayn is a righteous and powerful figure mentioned in the Qur’an, often associated with a just ruler who traveled widely and built a barrier to contain Gog and Magog.
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D.
Harun
Harun is the Islamic prophet Aaron, brother of Moses, revered for his prophethood and leadership among the Israelites.
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E.
Abdal
Abdal are a group of righteous, hidden saints in Islamic mysticism believed to uphold spiritual balance in the world.
- 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: Khidr Target entity description: Khidr is a mysterious, immortal figure in Islamic tradition often associated with hidden wisdom, guidance, and esoteric knowledge, who appears in the Qur’anic story of Moses.
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A.
Musa and Khidr
Musa and Khidr is a Qur’anic narrative in Surah Al-Kahf that recounts Prophet Moses’ journey with the mysterious figure Khidr to illustrate the limits of human understanding and the hidden wisdom behind divine decree.
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B.
Jibreel Khazan
Jibreel Khazan, born Ezell Blair Jr., is a civil rights activist best known as one of the Greensboro Four who initiated the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-ins in North Carolina.
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C.
Dhul-Qarnayn
Dhul-Qarnayn is a righteous and powerful figure mentioned in the Qur’an, often associated with a just ruler who traveled widely and built a barrier to contain Gog and Magog.
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D.
Harun
Harun is the Islamic prophet Aaron, brother of Moses, revered for his prophethood and leadership among the Israelites.
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E.
Abdal
Abdal are a group of righteous, hidden saints in Islamic mysticism believed to uphold spiritual balance in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic religious figure
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Qur’anic character ⓘ immortal being ⓘ mystical figure ⓘ saint in Islamic tradition ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Qur’an
NERFINISHED
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Qur’an 18:60–82 ⓘ Qur’anic surah al-Kahf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedColor | green ⓘ |
| associatedConcept | ʿilm ladunnī ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Moses
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ hidden saints ⓘ mystical journeys ⓘ springs or water of life ⓘ the sea ⓘ |
| attribute | possessor of special knowledge (ʿilm ladunnī) ⓘ |
| believedBySomeToBe | immortal ⓘ |
| believedBySomeToBe | still present in the world ⓘ |
| consideredByOthers | righteous servant or saint ⓘ |
| consideredBySome | prophet ⓘ |
| describedAs |
one to whom God gave mercy
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one to whom God taught knowledge from Himself ⓘ servant from among God’s servants ⓘ |
| etymology | name often linked to Arabic root for “green” (kh-d-r) ⓘ |
| hasFeastOrCommemoration | Hıdırellez in some Anatolian and Balkan traditions ⓘ |
| influenced |
Islamic mystical literature
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Ottoman religious folklore ⓘ Persian Sufi poetry ⓘ |
| knownFor |
esoteric knowledge
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hidden wisdom ⓘ performing seemingly unjust acts with hidden purposes ⓘ spiritual guidance ⓘ |
| linkedTo | legend of the water of life ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
al-Khadir
NERFINISHED
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al-Khadir al-Baqi NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Khadr NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Khidr NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Khizr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| performedAct |
damaged a boat to protect its owners from a tyrant
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killed a boy to prevent future evil ⓘ repaired a wall to safeguard a treasure for orphans ⓘ |
| religiousTradition | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInQuran | mysterious servant of God who instructs Moses ⓘ |
| roleInSufism |
guide of wayfarers on the spiritual path
ⓘ
initiator of certain saints ⓘ |
| sometimesAssociatedWith | Saint George in some folk syncretisms ⓘ |
| sometimesIdentifiedWith | Elijah in some Islamic and regional traditions ⓘ |
| statusInTheology | identity and exact status debated among Muslim scholars ⓘ |
| teaches |
limits of human knowledge
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patience ⓘ trust in divine wisdom ⓘ |
| veneratedIn | Sufi tradition ⓘ |
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: Khidr Description of subject: Khidr is a mysterious, immortal figure in Islamic tradition often associated with hidden wisdom, guidance, and esoteric knowledge, who appears in the Qur’anic story of Moses.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
al-Khidr
this entity surface form:
al-Khidr