ibn Jaʿfar
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ibn Jaʿfar is a patronymic referring to a descendant or son of Jaʿfar, notably used for the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kadhim.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ibn Ja'far | 1 |
| ibn Jaʿfar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7720264 — 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: ibn Jaʿfar Context triple: [Musa al-Kadhim, patronymic, ibn Jaʿfar]
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A.
ibn Idris
Ibn Idris is the patronymic of the influential early Islamic jurist and theologian Al-Shafi'i, founder of the Shafi'i school of Sunni law.
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B.
Jabir ibn Abd Allah
Jabir ibn Abd Allah was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad known for transmitting a large number of hadiths and participating in several key early Islamic battles.
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C.
ibn Sharaf
Ibn Sharaf was a medieval Islamic scholar known as the father of the eminent Shafi'i jurist and hadith master Al-Nawawi.
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D.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy was a 14th-century Andalusian scholar and writer best known for compiling and editing the famous travel account of the explorer Ibn Battuta.
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E.
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini was a prominent 10th-century Islamic theologian and Shafi'i jurist known for his influential role in the development of Ash'ari kalam.
- 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: ibn Jaʿfar Target entity description: ibn Jaʿfar is a patronymic referring to a descendant or son of Jaʿfar, notably used for the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kadhim.
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A.
ibn Idris
Ibn Idris is the patronymic of the influential early Islamic jurist and theologian Al-Shafi'i, founder of the Shafi'i school of Sunni law.
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B.
Jabir ibn Abd Allah
Jabir ibn Abd Allah was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad known for transmitting a large number of hadiths and participating in several key early Islamic battles.
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C.
ibn Sharaf
Ibn Sharaf was a medieval Islamic scholar known as the father of the eminent Shafi'i jurist and hadith master Al-Nawawi.
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D.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy was a 14th-century Andalusian scholar and writer best known for compiling and editing the famous travel account of the explorer Ibn Battuta.
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E.
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini was a prominent 10th-century Islamic theologian and Shafi'i jurist known for his influential role in the development of Ash'ari kalam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic patronymic
ⓘ
Shia Imam ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| ancestor |
Ali ibn Abi Talib
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fatimah bint Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ Husayn ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity |
Baghdad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Medina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Umayyad Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | al-Abwa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branchOfShia | Twelver Shia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialCity | Baghdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialCountry | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kadhimayn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Baghdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Shia Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| derivesFromGivenName | Jaʿfar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
|
| father | Jaʿfar al-Sadiq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Musa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Muhammad al-Baqir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Ali Zayn al-Abidin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
Abu al-Hasan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
al-Kadhim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house |
Ahl al-Bayt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
knowledge of Islamic law
ⓘ
patience ⓘ piety ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Arabic ⓘ |
| lineage | descendant of the Prophet Muhammad through Husayn ibn Ali ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Jaʿfar ⓘ |
| mother | Hamida Khatun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronymic | ibn Jaʿfar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | seventh Shia Imam ⓘ |
| predecessor | Jaʿfar al-Sadiq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| successor | Ali al-Rida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | al-Kadhim means "the one who swallows his anger" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tribe | Banu Hashim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | Musa al-Kadhim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Twelver Shia Islam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
other Shia branches ⓘ |
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: ibn Jaʿfar Description of subject: ibn Jaʿfar is a patronymic referring to a descendant or son of Jaʿfar, notably used for the seventh Shia Imam, Musa al-Kadhim.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ibn Ja'far