Women of the Quraysh
E702370
Women of the Quraysh were the noblewomen belonging to the powerful Quraysh tribe of pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca, many of whom played significant roles in the lineage and early history of Islam.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Companions and family of the Prophet Muhammad | 1 |
| People of the Quraysh | 1 |
| Women of the Quraysh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7955974 — 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: Women of the Quraysh Context triple: [Fatimah bint Amr, category, Women of the Quraysh]
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A.
Banu Zuhra
Banu Zuhra was a prominent clan of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca, known for its notable members and role in the Prophet Muhammad’s ancestry.
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B.
Umm al-Mu'minin
Umm al-Mu'minin is an honorific Islamic title meaning "Mother of the Believers," traditionally used for the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the prominent Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh in Mecca.
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D.
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish-born noblewoman from the Banu Nadir tribe who became one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as a Mother of the Believers in Islam.
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E.
أم سلمة بنت عبد المطلب
أم سلمة بنت عبد المطلب هي إحدى بنات عبد المطلب بن هاشم وعمّة النبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ومن نساء بني هاشم في الجاهلية.
- 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: Women of the Quraysh Target entity description: Women of the Quraysh were the noblewomen belonging to the powerful Quraysh tribe of pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca, many of whom played significant roles in the lineage and early history of Islam.
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A.
Banu Zuhra
Banu Zuhra was a prominent clan of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca, known for its notable members and role in the Prophet Muhammad’s ancestry.
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B.
Umm al-Mu'minin
Umm al-Mu'minin is an honorific Islamic title meaning "Mother of the Believers," traditionally used for the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the prominent Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh in Mecca.
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D.
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish-born noblewoman from the Banu Nadir tribe who became one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as a Mother of the Believers in Islam.
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E.
أم سلمة بنت عبد المطلب
أم سلمة بنت عبد المطلب هي إحدى بنات عبد المطلب بن هاشم وعمّة النبي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم ومن نساء بني هاشم في الجاهلية.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arab women
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historical community ⓘ social group ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Banu Hashim
NERFINISHED
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Banu Makhzum NERFINISHED ⓘ Banu Taym NERFINISHED ⓘ Banu Umayyah NERFINISHED ⓘ Banu Zuhrah NERFINISHED ⓘ Quraysh clan system ⓘ |
| culturalRole |
transmission of poetry and oral tradition
ⓘ
upbringing of early Muslim figures ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Quraysh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
formed part of the Prophet Muhammad’s kinship network
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influenced alliances and conflicts in early Islam ⓘ |
| influenced |
early Muslim community in Medina
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formation of early Islamic family law norms ⓘ |
| knownFor |
marital alliances
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maternal ancestry of early Muslims ⓘ noble lineage ⓘ role in early Islamic history ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Arabian Peninsula
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Hejaz NERFINISHED ⓘ Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Aishah bint Abi Bakr
NERFINISHED
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Aminah bint Wahb NERFINISHED ⓘ Asma bint Abi Bakr NERFINISHED ⓘ Atikah bint Abd al-Muttalib NERFINISHED ⓘ Fatimah bint Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ Hafsa bint Umar NERFINISHED ⓘ Hind bint Utbah NERFINISHED ⓘ Khadijah bint Khuwaylid NERFINISHED ⓘ Safiyyah bint Abd al-Muttalib NERFINISHED ⓘ Sawda bint Zam‘a NERFINISHED ⓘ Umm Habibah (Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan) NERFINISHED ⓘ Umm Hakim bint al-Harith NERFINISHED ⓘ Umm Jamil (Arwa bint Harb) NERFINISHED ⓘ Umm Salamah (Hind bint Abi Umayyah) NERFINISHED ⓘ Zaynab bint Jahsh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam (after conversion)
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paganism (pre-Islamic period) ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInSociety |
custodians of lineage and genealogy
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economic participation in trade-related households ⓘ marriage alliances between clans ⓘ mothers of tribal leaders ⓘ |
| socialStatus |
elite women of Mecca
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nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early Islamic period
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pre-Islamic Arabia ⓘ |
| tribalAffiliation | Quraysh tribe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Women of the Quraysh Description of subject: Women of the Quraysh were the noblewomen belonging to the powerful Quraysh tribe of pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca, many of whom played significant roles in the lineage and early history of Islam.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Companions and family of the Prophet Muhammad
this entity surface form:
People of the Quraysh