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 "id": "place/chennai",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "chennai",
 "label": {
  "ar": "تشيناي",
  "en": "Chennai",
  "ur": "چنئی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عاصمة ولاية تاميل نادو في جنوب الهند؛ عُرفت سابقاً باسم مدراس.",
  "en": "Capital of Tamil Nadu in southern India; formerly Madras."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "south-asia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  13.0825,
  80.275
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   13.0825,
   80.275
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "locality",
  "coordinate_note": "Wikidata Q1352 coordinates; representative point for the city.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1352",
   "geonames": "1264527"
  },
  "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-a",
    "person-place-geo-b",
    "person-place-geo-c"
   ],
   "note": "Semantic merge of duplicate records written by parallel enrichment runs.",
   "source": "Wikidata item Q1352 (labels, coordinates, country), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; Wikidata item Q1352 (labels, coordinates, description)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 10,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/a-r-rahman",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "From text: born in Madras",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-a-r-rahman-en",
    "source/britannica-a-r-rahman",
    "source/wikidata-a-r-rahman",
    "source/wikipedia-a-r-rahman-ar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/azfari",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "From text: died at Madras",
   "sources": [
    "source/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ehtisham-ul-haq-thanvi",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/m-s-swaminathan",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-m-s-swaminathan"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/nasser-hussain",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-nasser-hussain"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P19 place of birth (Wikidata Q1352)"
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "place/kudanthaiyan",
  "work/khwaja-mere-khwaja",
  "work/kun-faya-kun-rockstar",
  "work/muhammad-messenger-of-god-soundtrack",
  "person/a-r-rahman",
  "person/azfari",
  "person/ehtisham-ul-haq-thanvi",
  "person/m-s-swaminathan"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}