ibn Husayn
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ibn Husayn is a patronymic referring to a descendant or son of Husayn, notably used for Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the fourth Shia Imam.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| ibn Husayn canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9642560 — 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 Husayn Context triple: [Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, patronymic, ibn Husayn]
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ibn al-Mahdi
Ibn al-Mahdi was a member of the Abbasid dynasty, known as a son of the caliph al-Mahdi and thus part of the immediate family circle of the famous caliph Harun al-Rashid.
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B.
Abu al-Husayn
Abu al-Husayn is the honorific kunya of the renowned 9th-century Muslim scholar and hadith compiler Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, author of Sahih Muslim, one of Sunni Islam’s most authoritative hadith collections.
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Ibn al‑Khattab
Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi-born Islamist militant commander known for leading foreign mujahideen in the First and Second Chechen Wars against Russian forces.
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al-Hadi
Al-Hadi was an Abbasid caliph of the late 8th century, known for his brief reign and for being the elder brother and immediate predecessor of Harun al-Rashid.
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E.
Ali ibn Buya
Ali ibn Buya was the 10th-century Iranian military leader who established the Buyid dynasty and became a dominant power in the Abbasid 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: ibn Husayn Target entity description: ibn Husayn is a patronymic referring to a descendant or son of Husayn, notably used for Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the fourth Shia Imam.
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A.
ibn al-Mahdi
Ibn al-Mahdi was a member of the Abbasid dynasty, known as a son of the caliph al-Mahdi and thus part of the immediate family circle of the famous caliph Harun al-Rashid.
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B.
Abu al-Husayn
Abu al-Husayn is the honorific kunya of the renowned 9th-century Muslim scholar and hadith compiler Imam Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, author of Sahih Muslim, one of Sunni Islam’s most authoritative hadith collections.
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C.
Ibn al‑Khattab
Ibn al-Khattab was a Saudi-born Islamist militant commander known for leading foreign mujahideen in the First and Second Chechen Wars against Russian forces.
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D.
al-Hadi
Al-Hadi was an Abbasid caliph of the late 8th century, known for his brief reign and for being the elder brother and immediate predecessor of Harun al-Rashid.
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E.
Ali ibn Buya
Ali ibn Buya was the 10th-century Iranian military leader who established the Buyid dynasty and became a dominant power in the Abbasid Caliphate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic patronymic
ⓘ
Shia Imam ⓘ human ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Medina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Jannat al-Baqi cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Muhammad al-Baqir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Medina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| derivesFromGivenName | Husayn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Umayyad Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Husayn ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Ali ibn Abi Talib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandmother | Fatimah bint Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Prophet Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificName |
Zayn al-Abidin
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
as-Sajjad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | Ahl al-Bayt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
devotional prayers
ⓘ
piety ⓘ surviving the Battle of Karbala ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
ⓘ
Arabic ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Husayn ⓘ |
| mother | Shahrbanu NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameElementType | patronymic element ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Al-Sahifa al-Sajjadiyya
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Risalat al-Huquq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronymic | ibn Husayn ⓘ |
| positionHeld | fourth Shia Imam ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousBranch | Shia Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Fatima bint al-Hasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Shia hagiography ⓘ |
| successor | Muhammad al-Baqir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| survivedEvent | Battle of Karbala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
Imam
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Zayn al-Abidin NERFINISHED ⓘ as-Sajjad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tribe | Banu Hashim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedFor | Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Ismaili Shia Islam
NERFINISHED
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Twelver Shia Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ Zaydi Shia Islam 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: ibn Husayn Description of subject: ibn Husayn is a patronymic referring to a descendant or son of Husayn, notably used for Ali ibn Husayn Zayn al-Abidin, the fourth Shia Imam.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.