Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama
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Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama is a wealthy, visionary Yemeni sheikh in the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," whose dream of introducing salmon fishing to Yemen drives the story’s central plot.
All labels observed (1)
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| Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22297929 — 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: Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama Context triple: [Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, hasCharacter, Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama]
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A.
Sheikh Isaaq bin Ahmed
Sheikh Isaaq bin Ahmed is regarded as the semi-legendary Arab progenitor and founding patriarch of the Isaaq clan-family in the Horn of Africa.
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B.
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh was a prominent 20th-century Saudi Grand Mufti and leading religious scholar from the influential Al ash-Sheikh family, known for shaping the kingdom’s Islamic legal and doctrinal positions.
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C.
Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah
Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah was the Arabic alias used by the Swiss explorer and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt during his travels in the Middle East.
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D.
Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
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E.
Sheikh Ibada
Sheikh Ibada is a modern Egyptian village on the east bank of the Nile, known as the site of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Antinoopolis.
- 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: Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama Target entity description: Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama is a wealthy, visionary Yemeni sheikh in the novel and film "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," whose dream of introducing salmon fishing to Yemen drives the story’s central plot.
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A.
Sheikh Isaaq bin Ahmed
Sheikh Isaaq bin Ahmed is regarded as the semi-legendary Arab progenitor and founding patriarch of the Isaaq clan-family in the Horn of Africa.
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B.
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh
Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh was a prominent 20th-century Saudi Grand Mufti and leading religious scholar from the influential Al ash-Sheikh family, known for shaping the kingdom’s Islamic legal and doctrinal positions.
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C.
Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah
Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdallah was the Arabic alias used by the Swiss explorer and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt during his travels in the Middle East.
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D.
Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
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E.
Sheikh Ibada
Sheikh Ibada is a modern Egyptian village on the east bank of the Nile, known as the site of the ancient Greco-Roman city of Antinoopolis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (novel)