{
 "id": "place/dubai",
 "class": "place",
 "slug": "dubai",
 "label": {
  "ar": "دبي",
  "en": "Dubai",
  "ur": "دبئی"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مدينة على ساحل الخليج، مقر إمارة دبي التي يحكمها آل مكتوم؛ كانت ميناءً للغوص على اللؤلؤ ثم صارت المركز التجاري لدولة الإمارات.",
  "en": "City on the Gulf coast, seat of the emirate of Dubai ruled by the Al Maktoum; a pearling port that became the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates.",
  "ur": "خلیج کے ساحل پر واقع شہر، آل مکتوم کے زیرِ حکومت امارتِ دبئی کا مرکز؛ پہلے موتی کے غوطہ خوری کا بندرگاہ، اب متحدہ عرب امارات کا تجارتی مرکز۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "place"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "coordinates": [
  25.2048,
  55.2708
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "city",
  "coordinates": [
   25.2048,
   55.2708
  ],
  "coordinate_precision": "locality",
  "coordinate_note": "Coordinates from Wikidata Q612; approximate until checked against a gazetteer.",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q612"
  },
  "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 Q612 (labels, coordinates), read via the Wikidata API in the person-place geo-enrichment run.; GeoNames gazetteer entry and Wikidata Q612; coordinates the city's gazetteer point"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-09",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/dubays",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Associated with دبي per the record's own text; relation type pending review.",
   "sources": [
    "source/fihrist-ibn-al-nadim"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/maulana-ghulam-ullah-khan",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Place link from Wikidata; pending a second source.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum-en",
    "source/wikipedia-mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum-ar",
    "source/wikidata-mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/rashid-bin-saeed-al-maktoum",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-rashid-bin-saeed-al-maktoum"
   ],
   "confidence": "medium",
   "note": "Wikidata P19 place of birth (Wikidata Q612)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/renuka-jagtiani",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-renuka-jagtiani"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Chairwoman of the Dubai-based Landmark Group per the record text."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/sultan-ahmed-bin-sulayem",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata-sultan-ahmed-bin-sulayem"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Wikidata P551 residence (Wikidata Q612)"
  },
  {
   "to": "person/thom-defilet",
   "type": "visited_by",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Documented stay in Dubai per his autobiography."
  },
  {
   "to": "person/yusuf-islam",
   "type": "home_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikidata"
   ],
   "confidence": "low",
   "note": "Wikidata P551 residence (Wikidata Q612)"
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "person/mohammed-bin-rashid-al-maktoum",
  "person/rashid-bin-saeed-al-maktoum",
  "event/dubai-quran-award",
  "place/chhachh",
  "place/emirate-of-dubai",
  "place/groningen",
  "place/london",
  "place/marylebone"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}