Kaaba
E6838
The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque in Mecca and the focal point of Muslim prayer and pilgrimage.
All labels observed (21)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T66912 — 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: Kaaba Context triple: [Islam, sacredSite, Kaaba]
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A.
Masjid al-Haram
Masjid al-Haram is the Grand Mosque in Mecca that surrounds the Kaaba and serves as the holiest site in Islam and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage.
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B.
Temple Mount
Temple Mount is a hilltop in Jerusalem revered as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, traditionally regarded as the location of the First and Second Temples.
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C.
Western Wall
The Western Wall is a revered remnant of the ancient Jewish Temple complex in Jerusalem and a central site of Jewish prayer and pilgrimage.
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D.
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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E.
Seal of the Prophets
Seal of the Prophets is an Islamic title for Muhammad signifying his role as the final prophet in the line of prophetic messengers.
- 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: Kaaba Target entity description: The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque in Mecca and the focal point of Muslim prayer and pilgrimage.
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A.
Masjid al-Haram
Masjid al-Haram is the Grand Mosque in Mecca that surrounds the Kaaba and serves as the holiest site in Islam and the focal point of the Hajj pilgrimage.
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B.
Temple Mount
Temple Mount is a hilltop in Jerusalem revered as one of the holiest sites in Judaism, traditionally regarded as the location of the First and Second Temples.
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C.
Western Wall
The Western Wall is a revered remnant of the ancient Jewish Temple complex in Jerusalem and a central site of Jewish prayer and pilgrimage.
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D.
Temple of Dendur
The Temple of Dendur is an ancient Egyptian sandstone temple, built by the Roman emperor Augustus around 15 BCE and now prominently displayed in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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E.
Seal of the Prophets
Seal of the Prophets is an Islamic title for Muhammad signifying his role as the final prophet in the line of prophetic messengers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic holy site
ⓘ
building ⓘ religious structure ⓘ |
| associatedRitual |
Hajj
ⓘ
Umrah ⓘ tawaf ⓘ |
| corner |
Black Stone corner
ⓘ
Iraqi corner ⓘ Levantine corner ⓘ Yemeni corner ⓘ |
| country | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| coveredBy | Kiswah ⓘ |
| doorLocation | eastern wall ⓘ |
| doorMaterial | gold-plated metal ⓘ |
| etymology | derived from Arabic root meaning cube or elevation ⓘ |
| function | qibla ⓘ |
| hasArabicName |
Kaaba
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
الكعبة
|
| hasComponent |
Bab al-Kaaba
ⓘ
Black Stone ⓘ Hijr Ismail ⓘ Mizab al-Rahmah ⓘ Multazam ⓘ Shadharwan ⓘ interior marble floor ⓘ interior pillars ⓘ |
| height | approximately 13.1 meters ⓘ |
| historicalAssociation |
Abraham
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Ibrahim
Prophet Ismail ⓘ |
| length | approximately 12 meters ⓘ |
| location |
Masjid al-Haram
ⓘ
Mecca ⓘ |
| managedBy |
General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques
ⓘ
surface form:
Saudi authorities
|
| materialOfCovering | black silk and gold-embroidered cloth ⓘ |
| orientation | roughly aligned to the cardinal directions ⓘ |
| pilgrimageRequirement | Hajj once in a lifetime for able Muslims ⓘ |
| prayerDirectionFor | Muslims worldwide ⓘ |
| rebuiltIn |
after floods in Mecca
ⓘ
during the Quraysh period before Islam ⓘ early Islamic period ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| shape | cube ⓘ |
| significance |
focal point of Hajj pilgrimage
ⓘ
focal point of Muslim prayer ⓘ |
| status | holiest site in Islam ⓘ |
| surroundedBy |
Mataf area
ⓘ
expansive mosque complex ⓘ |
| visitedBy | millions of pilgrims annually ⓘ |
| width | approximately 10 meters ⓘ |
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: Kaaba Description of subject: The Kaaba is a cube-shaped building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque in Mecca and the focal point of Muslim prayer and pilgrimage.
Referenced by (110)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Kaaba in Mecca
this entity surface form:
Kaaba (according to Islamic tradition)
subject surface form:
Mecca
this entity surface form:
Kaaba (Mecca)
this entity surface form:
الكعبة المشرفة
this entity surface form:
KaabaStructure
this entity surface form:
الكعبة المشرفة
this entity surface form:
جدار الكعبة الجنوبي الشرقي
this entity surface form:
باب الكعبة
this entity surface form:
four corners of the Kaaba