Nasr ibn Shabath
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Nasr ibn Shabath was a 9th-century Muslim military leader known for commanding Abbasid forces against the Byzantine Empire, including at the Battle of Lalakaon in 863.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nasr ibn Shabath canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12939437 — 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: Nasr ibn Shabath Context triple: [Battle of Lalakaon (863), commander, Nasr ibn Shabath]
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A.
Nasr ibn Sayyar
Nasr ibn Sayyar was an 8th-century Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khorasan, known for his efforts to maintain Umayyad control during the turbulent period leading up to the Abbasid Revolution.
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B.
Saif ibn Dhi Yazan
Saif ibn Dhi Yazan was a semi-legendary pre-Islamic Arab noble and warrior-king of Yemen, famed in Arab tradition for resisting Abyssinian rule and celebrated in later epic literature.
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C.
Abu Yaʿza Yalnour
Abu Yaʿza Yalnour was an early Moroccan Sufi master and ascetic whose spiritual teachings and example deeply shaped the development of Maghrebi Sufism.
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D.
Al-Bara ibn Azib
Al-Bara ibn Azib was a young Ansari Companion of the Prophet Muhammad known for his participation in several key battles and for transmitting numerous hadiths.
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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: Nasr ibn Shabath Target entity description: Nasr ibn Shabath was a 9th-century Muslim military leader known for commanding Abbasid forces against the Byzantine Empire, including at the Battle of Lalakaon in 863.
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A.
Nasr ibn Sayyar
Nasr ibn Sayyar was an 8th-century Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khorasan, known for his efforts to maintain Umayyad control during the turbulent period leading up to the Abbasid Revolution.
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B.
Saif ibn Dhi Yazan
Saif ibn Dhi Yazan was a semi-legendary pre-Islamic Arab noble and warrior-king of Yemen, famed in Arab tradition for resisting Abyssinian rule and celebrated in later epic literature.
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C.
Abu Yaʿza Yalnour
Abu Yaʿza Yalnour was an early Moroccan Sufi master and ascetic whose spiritual teachings and example deeply shaped the development of Maghrebi Sufism.
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D.
Al-Bara ibn Azib
Al-Bara ibn Azib was a young Ansari Companion of the Prophet Muhammad known for his participation in several key battles and for transmitting numerous hadiths.
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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 (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
9th-century person
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Muslim ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 9th century ⓘ |
| allegiance | Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| areaOfOperation |
Byzantine–Abbasid frontier
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 9th century CE ⓘ |
| conflict |
Abbasid–Byzantine conflicts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Arab–Byzantine wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
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| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Abbasid army NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| notableWork | campaigns against the Byzantine Empire ⓘ |
| opponent | Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | military commander for the Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
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: Nasr ibn Shabath Description of subject: Nasr ibn Shabath was a 9th-century Muslim military leader known for commanding Abbasid forces against the Byzantine Empire, including at the Battle of Lalakaon in 863.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Battle of Lalakaon (863)