Barrah bint Samawal
E851065
Barrah bint Samawal was a Jewish woman of Medina known primarily as the wife of the tribal leader Huyayy ibn Akhtab during the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Barrah bint Samawal canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10193627 — 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: Barrah bint Samawal Context triple: [Huyayy ibn Akhtab, spouseOf, Barrah bint Samawal]
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A.
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza was a Qurayshi woman of pre-Islamic Mecca known primarily as the mother of Aminah bint Wahb, the maternal grandmother of the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Barrah bint al-Harith
Barrah bint al-Harith, better known as Maymunah bint al-Harith, was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as one of the Mothers of the Believers in Islamic tradition.
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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.
Hamna bint Jahsh
Hamna bint Jahsh was a female companion of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her early conversion to Islam and participation in key events of the early Muslim community.
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E.
Khawla bint Qurra
Khawla bint Qurra was a woman from early Islamic history known as one of the wives of the Umayyad caliph Muawiya I.
- 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: Barrah bint Samawal Target entity description: Barrah bint Samawal was a Jewish woman of Medina known primarily as the wife of the tribal leader Huyayy ibn Akhtab during the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A.
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza was a Qurayshi woman of pre-Islamic Mecca known primarily as the mother of Aminah bint Wahb, the maternal grandmother of the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Barrah bint al-Harith
Barrah bint al-Harith, better known as Maymunah bint al-Harith, was a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as one of the Mothers of the Believers in Islamic tradition.
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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.
Hamna bint Jahsh
Hamna bint Jahsh was a female companion of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her early conversion to Islam and participation in key events of the early Muslim community.
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E.
Khawla bint Qurra
Khawla bint Qurra was a woman from early Islamic history known as one of the wives of the Umayyad caliph Muawiya I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical person
ⓘ
woman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Huyayy ibn Akhtab
ⓘ
Prophet Muhammad ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad
|
| associatedWithTribe | Banu Nadir ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Jewish ⓘ |
| geographicRegion | Hejaz ⓘ |
| knownAs | Barrah, wife of Huyayy ibn Akhtab ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Huyayy ibn Akhtab ⓘ |
| placeInEarlyIslamicHistory | Medinan Jewish community ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence |
Medina
ⓘ
Yathrib ⓘ |
| spouse | Huyayy ibn Akhtab ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | tribal leader ⓘ |
| timePeriod | lifetime of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
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: Barrah bint Samawal Description of subject: Barrah bint Samawal was a Jewish woman of Medina known primarily as the wife of the tribal leader Huyayy ibn Akhtab during the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.