Zayd
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Zayd is a male given name of Arabic origin commonly used in the Muslim world.
All labels observed (4)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13082962 — 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: Zayd Context triple: [Zayd ibn Ali, givenName, Zayd]
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A.
Azzam
Azzam is a masculine given name of Arabic origin, commonly used in the Middle East and among Arabic-speaking communities.
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B.
Zayd ibn al-Hasan
Zayd ibn al-Hasan was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad through his father Hasan ibn Ali and a member of the early Islamic nobility of the Prophet’s family (Ahl al-Bayt).
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C.
Zakariya
Zakariya is a revered prophet in Islamic and Christian traditions, known as the father of Prophet Yahya (John the Baptist).
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D.
Yahya
Yahya is the Islamic prophet identified with John the Baptist, revered for his piety, asceticism, and role in heralding the coming of Prophet Isa (Jesus).
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E.
Qasim
Qasim is a central character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Children of Gebelawi," representing a modern, socially conscious figure modeled on the Prophet Muhammad within the book’s allegorical retelling of religious history.
- 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: Zayd Target entity description: Zayd is a male given name of Arabic origin commonly used in the Muslim world.
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A.
Azzam
Azzam is a masculine given name of Arabic origin, commonly used in the Middle East and among Arabic-speaking communities.
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B.
Zayd ibn al-Hasan
Zayd ibn al-Hasan was a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad through his father Hasan ibn Ali and a member of the early Islamic nobility of the Prophet’s family (Ahl al-Bayt).
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C.
Zakariya
Zakariya is a revered prophet in Islamic and Christian traditions, known as the father of Prophet Yahya (John the Baptist).
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D.
Yahya
Yahya is the Islamic prophet identified with John the Baptist, revered for his piety, asceticism, and role in heralding the coming of Prophet Isa (Jesus).
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E.
Qasim
Qasim is a central character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Children of Gebelawi," representing a modern, socially conscious figure modeled on the Prophet Muhammad within the book’s allegorical retelling of religious history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Zayd Description of subject: Zayd is a male given name of Arabic origin commonly used in the Muslim world.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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