al-Walid ibn Utba
E562736
Al-Walid ibn Utba was an early Umayyad figure and governor of Medina under the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walid ibn Utba | 2 |
| al-Walid ibn Utba canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5629162 — 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: al-Walid ibn Utba Context triple: [Umayyad relatives, hasNotableMember, al-Walid ibn Utba]
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A.
Khuwaylid ibn Asad
Khuwaylid ibn Asad was a respected Meccan nobleman of the Quraysh tribe and the father of Khadijah, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Ibn al‑Khattab
Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi-born Islamist militant commander known for leading foreign mujahideen in the First and Second Chechen Wars against Russian forces.
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C.
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan, known as Marwan II, was the last Umayyad caliph who ruled from 744 to 750 CE before the dynasty was overthrown by the Abbasids.
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D.
Umar ibn Saʿd
Umar ibn Saʿd was an Umayyad military leader best known for leading the forces that killed Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE.
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E.
Umar II
Umar II was an Umayyad caliph renowned for his piety, administrative reforms, and efforts to govern according to Islamic principles.
- 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: al-Walid ibn Utba Target entity description: Al-Walid ibn Utba was an early Umayyad figure and governor of Medina under the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan.
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A.
Khuwaylid ibn Asad
Khuwaylid ibn Asad was a respected Meccan nobleman of the Quraysh tribe and the father of Khadijah, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Ibn al‑Khattab
Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi-born Islamist militant commander known for leading foreign mujahideen in the First and Second Chechen Wars against Russian forces.
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C.
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan
Marwan ibn Muhammad ibn Marwan, known as Marwan II, was the last Umayyad caliph who ruled from 744 to 750 CE before the dynasty was overthrown by the Abbasids.
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D.
Umar ibn Saʿd
Umar ibn Saʿd was an Umayyad military leader best known for leading the forces that killed Husayn ibn Ali at the Battle of Karbala in 680 CE.
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E.
Umar II
Umar II was an Umayyad caliph renowned for his piety, administrative reforms, and efforts to govern according to Islamic principles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Umayyad governor
ⓘ
historical person ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Uthman ibn Affan
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linked to:
Caliph Uthman ibn Affan
|
| caliphServedUnder |
Uthman ibn Affan
ⓘ
linked to:
Caliph Uthman ibn Affan
|
| country | Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ |
| dynasty |
Umayyad
ⓘ
linked to:
Umayyad Caliphate
|
| era | Rashidun Caliphate ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early Umayyad political role
ⓘ
governorship of Medina under Uthman ibn Affan ⓘ |
| positionHeld | governor of Medina ⓘ |
| regionGoverned | Medina ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| servedAs | governor of Medina ⓘ |
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: al-Walid ibn Utba Description of subject: Al-Walid ibn Utba was an early Umayyad figure and governor of Medina under the caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: al-Walid ibn Utba
linked to: al-Walid ibn Utba