Sharif of Mecca
E108561
The Sharif of Mecca was the hereditary ruler and guardian of Islam’s holiest city, traditionally drawn from the Hashemite lineage claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sharif of Mecca canonical | 7 |
| Sharif Hussein bin Ali | 4 |
| Hussein bin Ali | 3 |
| Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca | 3 |
| Emir of Mecca | 2 |
| King of Hejaz | 2 |
| Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques | 1 |
| Sharif and Emir of Mecca | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T836386 — 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: Sharif of Mecca Context triple: [Hashemite dynasty, traditionalTitle, Sharif of Mecca]
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A.
Prince Faisal bin Hussein
Prince Faisal bin Hussein is a Jordanian royal and military officer, known as the brother of King Abdullah II and a senior figure in Jordan’s armed forces and public life.
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B.
Husayn ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali is the revered grandson of the Prophet Muhammad whose martyrdom at the Battle of Karbala is a central event in Islamic, especially Shia, history and spirituality.
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C.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia was the Saudi monarch who modernized the kingdom’s infrastructure, deepened its alliance with the United States, and played a pivotal leadership role during the Gulf War.
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D.
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is the King of Saudi Arabia, a senior member of the House of Saud who has played a central role in the kingdom’s governance and modernization efforts.
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E.
bint Hussein
bint Hussein is the family name of Princess Haya, a Jordanian royal known internationally for her humanitarian work and role as a former wife of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
- 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: Sharif of Mecca Target entity description: The Sharif of Mecca was the hereditary ruler and guardian of Islam’s holiest city, traditionally drawn from the Hashemite lineage claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad.
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A.
Prince Faisal bin Hussein
Prince Faisal bin Hussein is a Jordanian royal and military officer, known as the brother of King Abdullah II and a senior figure in Jordan’s armed forces and public life.
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B.
Husayn ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali is the revered grandson of the Prophet Muhammad whose martyrdom at the Battle of Karbala is a central event in Islamic, especially Shia, history and spirituality.
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C.
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
King Fahd of Saudi Arabia was the Saudi monarch who modernized the kingdom’s infrastructure, deepened its alliance with the United States, and played a pivotal leadership role during the Gulf War.
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D.
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is the King of Saudi Arabia, a senior member of the House of Saud who has played a central role in the kingdom’s governance and modernization efforts.
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E.
bint Hussein
bint Hussein is the family name of Princess Haya, a Jordanian royal known internationally for her humanitarian work and role as a former wife of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic religious office
ⓘ
hereditary title ⓘ monarchical office ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Mecca ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Kingdom of Hejaz ⓘ |
| basedOn | claim of descent from the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| country | Hejaz ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Banu Qatadah
ⓘ
surface form:
Banu Qatada
Hashemite dynasty ⓘ |
| endCause | Saudi conquest of Hejaz ⓘ |
| endTime | 1925 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arab ⓘ |
| hasDuty |
administering justice in Mecca
ⓘ
collecting local taxes in Hejaz ⓘ ensuring safety of the Hajj pilgrimage ⓘ maintaining order in Mecca ⓘ |
| hasRole |
custodian of Islamic holy places in Hejaz
ⓘ
guardian of the holy city of Mecca ⓘ local ruler of Mecca ⓘ protector of pilgrims to Mecca ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Sharif of Mecca
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Emir of Mecca
Sharif ⓘ Sharif of Mecca self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sharif and Emir of Mecca
|
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| officeHolder |
Abd al-Ilah ibn Muhammad
ⓘ
Sharif Abd al-Muttalib ⓘ
surface form:
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Ghalib
Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Muin ⓘ Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin ⓘ
surface form:
Ali ibn Husayn
Awn al-Rafiq Pasha ⓘ Awn ibn Muhsin ⓘ Ghalib ibn Musa'id ⓘ Husayn I ibn Ali ⓘ
surface form:
Husayn ibn Ali
Husayn ibn Ali, King of Hejaz ⓘ Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Muin ⓘ
surface form:
Muhammad ibn Abd al-Muin
Qatada ibn Idris ⓘ |
| partOf | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| positionHeldBy |
Hashemite dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Hashemite family
|
| recognizedBy |
Ottoman authorities
ⓘ
various Muslim rulers ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| replacedBy | Saudi control of Mecca ⓘ |
| residence |
Hejaz
ⓘ
Mecca ⓘ |
| seat | Mecca ⓘ |
| significantEvent |
Arab Revolt
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab Revolt (1916–1918)
|
| startTime |
10th century
ⓘ
c. 967 ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
Caliph
ⓘ
surface form:
Caliph (Ottoman)
Ottoman sultan ⓘ
surface form:
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
|
| traditionallyHeldBy |
Hashemite dynasty
ⓘ
surface form:
Hashemites
descendants of the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
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: Sharif of Mecca Description of subject: The Sharif of Mecca was the hereditary ruler and guardian of Islam’s holiest city, traditionally drawn from the Hashemite lineage claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King of Hejaz
this entity surface form:
Hussein bin Ali
this entity surface form:
Hussein bin Ali
this entity surface form:
King of Hejaz
this entity surface form:
Sharif Hussein bin Ali
this entity surface form:
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca
this entity surface form:
Sharif Hussein bin Ali
this entity surface form:
Sharif Hussein bin Ali
this entity surface form:
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca
this entity surface form:
Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca
this entity surface form:
Emir of Mecca
this entity surface form:
Hussein bin Ali
this entity surface form:
Sharif Hussein bin Ali
this entity surface form:
Emir of Mecca
this entity surface form:
Sharif and Emir of Mecca