Umm Radwan
E651382
Umm Radwan is the wife of Radwan Hussainy, a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known for her role within the close-knit Cairene neighborhood depicted in the story.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Umm Radwan canonical | 1 |
| Umm Radwān | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7259835 — 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: Umm Radwan Context triple: [Radwan Hussainy, spouse, Umm Radwan]
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A.
Umm Ruman
Umm Ruman was a prominent early Muslim woman, known as the wife of Abu Bakr and the mother of Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad’s wives.
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B.
Zaynab bint Mazun
Zaynab bint Mazun was an early Muslim woman from the first generation of Islam, known primarily as the mother of Hafsa bint Umar, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Lubnā bint Hājir
Lubnā bint Hājir was a wife of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus a member of the early Qurayshite nobility in Mecca.
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D.
Raghad
Raghad is the first name of Raghad Hussein, the eldest daughter of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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E.
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.
- 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: Umm Radwan Target entity description: Umm Radwan is the wife of Radwan Hussainy, a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known for her role within the close-knit Cairene neighborhood depicted in the story.
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A.
Umm Ruman
Umm Ruman was a prominent early Muslim woman, known as the wife of Abu Bakr and the mother of Aisha, one of the Prophet Muhammad’s wives.
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B.
Zaynab bint Mazun
Zaynab bint Mazun was an early Muslim woman from the first generation of Islam, known primarily as the mother of Hafsa bint Umar, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Lubnā bint Hājir
Lubnā bint Hājir was a wife of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus a member of the early Qurayshite nobility in Mecca.
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D.
Raghad
Raghad is the first name of Raghad Hussein, the eldest daughter of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Midaq Alley ⓘ |
| appearsInWorkBy | Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ |
| basedOnWorkNationality | Egyptian ⓘ |
| cityOfFictionalSetting | Cairo ⓘ |
| countryOfFictionalSetting | Egypt ⓘ |
| creator | Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Egyptian literature ⓘ |
| familyRole | wife ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Midaq Alley universe ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | novel "Midaq Alley" ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| literaryMovementContext | 20th‑century Arabic literature ⓘ |
| nameVariant |
Umm Radwān
ⓘ
linked to:
Umm Radwan
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| neighborhoodRole | participant in alley’s domestic and social life ⓘ |
| notableRelation | Radwan Hussainy ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfFirstAppearance | 1947 ⓘ |
| residence |
Midaq Alley (fictional Cairene alley)
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linked to:
Midaq Alley
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| roleInWork |
member of a close‑knit Cairene neighborhood
ⓘ
wife of Radwan Hussainy ⓘ |
| settingPeriod |
World War II era Cairo
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linked to:
Downtown Cairo
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| spouse | Radwan Hussainy ⓘ |
| workGenre | novel ⓘ |
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: Umm Radwan Description of subject: Umm Radwan is the wife of Radwan Hussainy, a character in Naguib Mahfouz’s novel "Midaq Alley," known for her role within the close-knit Cairene neighborhood depicted in the story.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Umm Radwan