Qom

E80413

Qom is a major Iranian city renowned as a leading center of Shia Islamic scholarship, pilgrimage, and religious authority.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Qom canonical 24
Qom Province 1
Qom city 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
holy city
administrativeDivisionType county-level city
associatedWith Supreme Leadership of Iran
surface form: Iranian clerical establishment
capitalOf Qom Province
climate semi-arid climate
country Iran
demographics predominantly Shia Muslim population
distanceFromTehran approximately 140 km south
economy religious publishing and education
religious tourism
services related to pilgrimage
educationalInstitutionType Islamic seminary (hawza) network
governedBy Qom self-linksurface differs
surface form: municipality of Qom
hasFeature dense concentration of Shia scholars
large number of religious students
significant influence on Shia jurisprudence
hasFunction jurisprudential training for Shia clergy
religious publishing
theological education
hasLandmark Islamic seminaries
shrine of Fatima Masumeh
surface form: Shrine of Fatima Masumeh

numerous mosques
hasReligion Twelver Shia Islam (majority)
knownFor Shia clerical establishment
production of religious literature
religious schools and madrasas
role in Iranian religious politics
seminaries (hawzas)
shrine of Fatima Masumeh
language Persian
locatedIn Qom Province
central Iran
locatedOn Qom River
partOf Iran
surface form: Islamic Republic of Iran
pilgrimageSite shrine of Fatima Masumeh
surface form: Shrine of Fatima Masumeh

numerous Shia mausoleums
religiousSignificance important pilgrimage destination
leading center of Shia Islamic scholarship
major center of Shia Islam
religiousStatus one of the most important Shia centers worldwide
roleInIran center of Shia religious authority
important in formation of religious leadership
influential in clerical training
timeZone Iran Standard Time
timeZoneDST Iran Daylight Time
surface form: Iran Daylight Time (when observed nationally)
transportConnection major highway link to Tehran
railway connection to Tehran and central Iran

How these facts were elicited

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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: Qom
Description of subject: Qom is a major Iranian city renowned as a leading center of Shia Islamic scholarship, pilgrimage, and religious authority.

Referenced by (28)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tehran Province borders Qom
this entity surface form: Qom Province
Qom governedBy Qom self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: municipality of Qom
marja'iyya (system of religious authorities) geographicCenters Qom
subject surface form: marja'iyya
Ruhollah Khomeini residence Qom
this entity surface form: Qom, Iran
Safi I burialPlace Qom
Abbas II burialPlace Qom
Qom River flowsThrough Qom
Qom River locatedNear Qom
this entity surface form: Qom city
shrine of Fatima Masumeh locatedIn Qom
subject surface form: Shrine of Fatima Masumeh
Qom Province capital Qom
Qom Province contains Qom
hawza (Shia seminary network) associatedWithCity Qom
subject surface form: Hawza
central Iran containsCity Qom
subject surface form: Central Iran