Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman
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Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman was an early Kufan Islamic jurist and prominent scholar of Hanafi legal thought, best known as the principal teacher of Imam Abu Hanifa.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman canonical | 3 |
| Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman al-Ashʿari al-Kufi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6643461 — 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: Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman Context triple: [Abu Hanifa, influencedBy, Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman]
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A.
Umara ibn Hamza
Umara ibn Hamza was an early Islamic figure known primarily as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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B.
Wahshi ibn Harb
Wahshi ibn Harb was an Ethiopian slave and skilled spear-thrower in early Islamic history, known for killing Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib at the Battle of Uhud before later converting to Islam.
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C.
Qutham ibn Abbas
Qutham ibn Abbas was a companion and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad who served as a governor in early Islamic history.
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D.
Fihr ibn Malik
Fihr ibn Malik is traditionally regarded as a prominent forefather of the Quraysh tribe and an early ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad in Arab genealogical tradition.
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E.
Sa'id ibn Uthman
Sa'id ibn Uthman was a 7th-century Umayyad prince and early Islamic military commander, known as a son of the third caliph Uthman ibn Affan and for his role in the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate.
- 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: Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman Target entity description: Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman was an early Kufan Islamic jurist and prominent scholar of Hanafi legal thought, best known as the principal teacher of Imam Abu Hanifa.
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A.
Umara ibn Hamza
Umara ibn Hamza was an early Islamic figure known primarily as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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B.
Wahshi ibn Harb
Wahshi ibn Harb was an Ethiopian slave and skilled spear-thrower in early Islamic history, known for killing Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib at the Battle of Uhud before later converting to Islam.
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C.
Qutham ibn Abbas
Qutham ibn Abbas was a companion and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad who served as a governor in early Islamic history.
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D.
Fihr ibn Malik
Fihr ibn Malik is traditionally regarded as a prominent forefather of the Quraysh tribe and an early ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad in Arab genealogical tradition.
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E.
Sa'id ibn Uthman
Sa'id ibn Uthman was a 7th-century Umayyad prince and early Islamic military commander, known as a son of the third caliph Uthman ibn Affan and for his role in the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman Description of subject: Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman was an early Kufan Islamic jurist and prominent scholar of Hanafi legal thought, best known as the principal teacher of Imam Abu Hanifa.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman