Idrīs
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Idrīs is an Arabic given name commonly associated with a prophetic figure in Islamic tradition, often identified with the biblical Enoch.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Chair of Idris" | 1 |
| Idrīs canonical | 1 |
| إِدْرِيسَ | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8335949 — 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: Idrīs Context triple: [Idris (Arabic name), transliteration, Idrīs]
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A.
Idris ibn Idris
Idris ibn Idris, better known as Idris II of Morocco, was an early 9th-century Idrisid ruler who consolidated Islamic rule and founded the city of Fez, helping lay the foundations of the Moroccan state.
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B.
Ishaq
Ishaq is the Arabic form of the biblical name Isaac, commonly used in Muslim and Arabic-speaking communities.
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C.
Sa’id
Sa’id is a male given name of Arabic origin, commonly meaning "happy" or "fortunate."
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D.
Ismail
Ismail is a prophet in Islamic tradition, revered as a son of Ibrahim (Abraham) and an exemplar of patience and obedience to God.
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E.
Abu al-Ula
Abu al-Ula was a Muslim ruler in medieval Seville under whose authority the iconic Torre del Oro was constructed.
- 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: Idrīs Target entity description: Idrīs is an Arabic given name commonly associated with a prophetic figure in Islamic tradition, often identified with the biblical Enoch.
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A.
Idris ibn Idris
Idris ibn Idris, better known as Idris II of Morocco, was an early 9th-century Idrisid ruler who consolidated Islamic rule and founded the city of Fez, helping lay the foundations of the Moroccan state.
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B.
Ishaq
Ishaq is the Arabic form of the biblical name Isaac, commonly used in Muslim and Arabic-speaking communities.
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C.
Sa’id
Sa’id is a male given name of Arabic origin, commonly meaning "happy" or "fortunate."
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D.
Ismail
Ismail is a prophet in Islamic tradition, revered as a son of Ibrahim (Abraham) and an exemplar of patience and obedience to God.
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E.
Abu al-Ula
Abu al-Ula was a Muslim ruler in medieval Seville under whose authority the iconic Torre del Oro was constructed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic given name
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male given name ⓘ theophoric name ⓘ |
| associatedWithFigure | Prophet Idris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Horn of Africa
NERFINISHED
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Middle East NERFINISHED ⓘ North Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ South Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithReligion | Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Arabic masculine given names
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Islamic given names ⓘ theophoric given names ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | masculine ⓘ |
| hasArabicSpelling | إدريس NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEtymologyHypothesis |
derived from Arabic root d-r-s (to study)
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possibly related to Greek name Andros or Andrias ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | Arabic ⓘ |
| hasMeaningProposed |
interpreter
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learned ⓘ studious ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Idris I of Morocco
NERFINISHED
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Idris II of Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ Idris of Libya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasScript | Arabic script ⓘ |
| hasShortForm | Driss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration |
Idrees
NERFINISHED
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Idris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Drees
NERFINISHED
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Driss NERFINISHED ⓘ Idrees NERFINISHED ⓘ Idres NERFINISHED ⓘ Idris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| identifiedWith |
Enoch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
biblical Enoch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Qur’an NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedInSurah |
Al-Anbiya
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maryam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedInLanguage |
Arabic
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Berber languages NERFINISHED ⓘ Hausa NERFINISHED ⓘ Indonesian ⓘ Malay ⓘ Persian ⓘ Somali NERFINISHED ⓘ Turkish ⓘ Urdu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Idrīs Description of subject: Idrīs is an Arabic given name commonly associated with a prophetic figure in Islamic tradition, often identified with the biblical Enoch.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
"Chair of Idris"
this entity surface form:
إِدْرِيسَ