Zubayda bint Jaʿfar
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Zubayda bint Jaʿfar was a prominent Abbasid princess renowned for her wealth, political influence, and major public works projects, including improvements to the pilgrimage routes to Mecca.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zubayda bint Jaʿfar canonical | 3 |
| Zubayda bint Jaʿfar ibn al-Mansur | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2315235 — 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: Zubayda bint Jaʿfar Context triple: [Harun al-Rashid, spouse, Zubayda bint Jaʿfar]
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A.
Zaynab bint Abi Salama
Zaynab bint Abi Salama was the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife Umm Salama and her first husband Abu Salama, and a member of the early Muslim community in Medina.
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B.
Zubaidah bint Ali
Zubaidah bint Ali was the Egyptian wife of French general Jacques-François Menou, notable as a symbol of the cultural and personal ties formed during the French campaign in Egypt.
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C.
Zaynab bint Muhammad
Zaynab bint Muhammad was the eldest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadijah, known as one of the early Muslim women of Mecca.
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D.
Zaynab bint Jahsh
Zaynab bint Jahsh was a prominent early Muslim woman and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and charitable nature.
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E.
Fatimah bint Za'idah
Fatimah bint Za'idah was an Arab woman of the Quraysh tribe best known as the mother of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
- 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: Zubayda bint Jaʿfar Target entity description: Zubayda bint Jaʿfar was a prominent Abbasid princess renowned for her wealth, political influence, and major public works projects, including improvements to the pilgrimage routes to Mecca.
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A.
Zaynab bint Abi Salama
Zaynab bint Abi Salama was the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife Umm Salama and her first husband Abu Salama, and a member of the early Muslim community in Medina.
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B.
Zubaidah bint Ali
Zubaidah bint Ali was the Egyptian wife of French general Jacques-François Menou, notable as a symbol of the cultural and personal ties formed during the French campaign in Egypt.
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C.
Zaynab bint Muhammad
Zaynab bint Muhammad was the eldest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadijah, known as one of the early Muslim women of Mecca.
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D.
Zaynab bint Jahsh
Zaynab bint Jahsh was a prominent early Muslim woman and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and charitable nature.
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E.
Fatimah bint Za'idah
Fatimah bint Za'idah was an Arab woman of the Quraysh tribe best known as the mother of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Abbasid princess
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historical figure ⓘ patron of public works ⓘ |
| approximateBirthCentury | 8th century ⓘ |
| approximateDeathCentury | 9th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Darb Zubayda
ⓘ
Hajj pilgrimage ⓘ Mecca ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Baghdad ⓘ |
| capitalOfDynasty | Baghdad ⓘ |
| child | al-Amin ⓘ |
| court |
court of Hārūn al-Rashīd
ⓘ
surface form:
court of Harun al-Rashid
|
| culture | Arab ⓘ |
| dynasty | Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| era |
Abbasid Caliphate
ⓘ
surface form:
Abbasid era
Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| father | Jaʿfar ibn al-Mansur ⓘ |
| fullName |
Zubayda bint Jaʿfar
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Zubayda bint Jaʿfar ibn al-Mansur
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| grandfather |
Al-Mansur
ⓘ
surface form:
al-Mansur
Jaʿfar ibn al-Mansur ⓘ
surface form:
second Abbasid caliph al-Mansur
|
| house |
Abbasid Caliphate
ⓘ
surface form:
Abbasid
|
| husband | Harun al-Rashid ⓘ |
| influence | succession politics between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun ⓘ |
| knownFor |
lavish lifestyle
ⓘ
patronage of poets and scholars ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| legacy |
infrastructure supporting pilgrims to Mecca
ⓘ
model of royal piety and generosity in Islamic historiography ⓘ |
| notableFor |
charitable endowments
ⓘ
construction of waterworks on the road to Mecca ⓘ great wealth ⓘ improvements to pilgrimage routes to Mecca ⓘ patronage of public works ⓘ political influence at the Abbasid court ⓘ |
| position | consort of the Abbasid caliph ⓘ |
| project |
construction of cisterns along the Hajj route
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construction of hostels for pilgrims ⓘ construction of reservoirs along the Hajj route ⓘ construction of wells along the Hajj route ⓘ development of the Darb Zubayda pilgrimage route ⓘ improvement of the water supply of Mecca ⓘ |
| region | Iraq ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Baghdad ⓘ |
| role |
political actor at the Abbasid court
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royal consort ⓘ |
| spouse | Harun al-Rashid ⓘ |
| title |
Umm Jaʿfar
ⓘ
Zubayda ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Zubayda bint Jaʿfar Description of subject: Zubayda bint Jaʿfar was a prominent Abbasid princess renowned for her wealth, political influence, and major public works projects, including improvements to the pilgrimage routes to Mecca.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Zubayda bint Jaʿfar ibn al-Mansur