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 "id": "place/baku",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "baku",
 "label": {
  "ar": "باكو",
  "en": "Baku",
  "ur": "باکو"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عاصمة أذربيجان على شبه جزيرة أبشرون في بحر قزوين؛ مدينة شروانشاه المسوّرة من العصور الوسطى، ثم مدينة نفط في العهدين الروسي والسوفييتي.",
  "en": "Capital of Azerbaijan on the Caspian's Absheron peninsula; the medieval Shirvanshah walled city, later an oil-boom town of the Russian empire and the Soviet Union.",
  "ur": "آذربائیجان کا دارالحکومت بحرِ قزوین کے جزیرہ نما آبشرون پر؛ شیروان شاہوں کا قرونِ وسطی کا شہر، بعد میں روسی اور سوویت دور کا تیل کا شہر۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  40.4093,
  49.8671
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   40.4093,
   49.8671
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "locality",
  "coordinate_note": "Coordinates from Wikidata; community-maintained, treated as approximate until checked against a gazetteer.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q9248"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/geonames-gazetteer"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1
  },
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "generated_by": "Devin",
   "run": "person-place-geo-merge",
   "merged_from": [
    "person-place-geo-b",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q9248 (labels, coordinates, country), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; GeoNames gazetteer entry and Wikidata Q9248; coordinates the city's gazetteer point"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 20,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/bekir-coban-zade",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-bekir-coban-zade"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hamida-javanshir",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-hamida-javanshir"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/hasan-bey-zardabi",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-hasan-bey-zardabi"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/jalil-mammadguluzadeh",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-jalil-mammadguluzadeh"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mir-mahammad-karim-mirjafarzadeh",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/murtuza-mukhtarov",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Born at Əmircan, a settlement of Baku (Wikidata P19 Q3131176)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/murtuza-mukhtarov",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Died at his Baku palace (Wikidata P20 Q4155891)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/shamsi-asadullayev",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P19 place of birth (Wikidata Q9248)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sukrullah-al-khalwati",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P20 place of death (Wikidata Q9248)"
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-baku-1918",
   "type": "site_of",
   "inverse": true
  }
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  "person/hamida-javanshir",
  "person/jalil-mammadguluzadeh",
  "place/b-y-k-k-hrizli",
  "place/bilohirsk",
  "place/chemberekend-cemetery",
  "place/nakhchivan",
  "place/shirvan"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}