Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din
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Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din was a Zaydi imam and monarch who ruled northern Yemen in the early 20th century, overseeing its transition from Ottoman control to an independent kingdom.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7760660 — 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: Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din Context triple: [Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen, firstRuler, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din]
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A.
Shihabuddin Omar
Shihabuddin Omar was a short-reigning Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate from the Khalji dynasty who briefly succeeded his father Alauddin Khalji before being overthrown.
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B.
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
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C.
Ismail Fatah Al Turk
Ismail Fatah Al Turk was a prominent Iraqi sculptor and painter known for his monumental public works and influential role in modern Iraqi art.
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D.
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.
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E.
Hassan Ali Effendi
Hassan Ali Effendi was a prominent 19th-century Muslim educationist and reformer from Sindh who played a key role in promoting modern education among Muslims in British India.
- 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: Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din Target entity description: Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din was a Zaydi imam and monarch who ruled northern Yemen in the early 20th century, overseeing its transition from Ottoman control to an independent kingdom.
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A.
Shihabuddin Omar
Shihabuddin Omar was a short-reigning Sultan of the Delhi Sultanate from the Khalji dynasty who briefly succeeded his father Alauddin Khalji before being overthrown.
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B.
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
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C.
Ismail Fatah Al Turk
Ismail Fatah Al Turk was a prominent Iraqi sculptor and painter known for his monumental public works and influential role in modern Iraqi art.
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D.
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.
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E.
Hassan Ali Effendi
Hassan Ali Effendi was a prominent 19th-century Muslim educationist and reformer from Sindh who played a key role in promoting modern education among Muslims in British India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
imam
ⓘ
monarch ⓘ person ⓘ political leader ⓘ |
| associatedWithDynasty | Hamid al-Din family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
20th-century Yemeni politicians
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Yemeni monarchs ⓘ Zaydi imams of Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflictContext | decline of Ottoman influence in Arabia ⓘ |
| controlledTerritory | highland regions of northern Yemen ⓘ |
| countryLed |
Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Zaydi Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Arab ⓘ |
| fullName | Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Yahya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governedAs | absolute monarch ⓘ |
| governmentFormUnderRule | monarchy ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
Zaydi religious leader
ⓘ
founder of modern Yemeni monarchy ⓘ post-Ottoman state builder in Yemen ⓘ |
| ideology | traditionalist Islamic rule ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| legitimacyBasis |
hereditary claim within Zaydi imamate tradition
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religious authority as Zaydi imam ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing an independent Zaydi monarchy in northern Yemen
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founding the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen ⓘ leading Yemen’s transition from Ottoman rule to independence ⓘ resisting Ottoman control in Yemen ⓘ |
| opponent | Ottoman Empire ⓘ |
| politicalSystemUnderRule |
Imamate
ⓘ
Islamic monarchy ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Imam of the Zaydis in Yemen
ⓘ
King of the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ ruler of northern Yemen ⓘ |
| powerBase | Zaydi tribes of northern Yemen ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Ottoman Yemen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionRuled | northern Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInDecolonization | leader of Yemeni independence from Ottoman rule ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence |
Arabian Peninsula
NERFINISHED
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Islamic world NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Imam Yahya
NERFINISHED
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Imam of Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfMonarch |
hereditary monarch
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theocratic ruler ⓘ |
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: Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din Description of subject: Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din was a Zaydi imam and monarch who ruled northern Yemen in the early 20th century, overseeing its transition from Ottoman control to an independent kingdom.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.