Obeidat
E880193
Obeidat is a prominent Arab tribe based in eastern Libya, historically influential in the region’s social and political landscape.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Obeidat canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10699700 — 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: Obeidat Context triple: [Eastern Libya, containsTribe, Obeidat]
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A.
Al-Hareeq
Al-Hareeq is a town in central Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural activity, particularly date palm cultivation, within the Riyadh region.
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B.
Belqasim
Belqasim is a personal given name of Arabic origin, used primarily in North African and Middle Eastern cultures.
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C.
Khudayar
Khudayar is a male given name most notably associated with Khudayar Khan, a 19th-century ruler of the Khanate of Kokand in Central Asia.
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D.
Sumail
Sumail is a town in the Dohuk Governorate of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, known historically for its Assyrian population and its role in regional conflicts.
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E.
Khath‘am
Khath‘am is an ancient Arab tribe known from early Islamic history, to which the companion Asma bint Umais belonged.
- 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: Obeidat Target entity description: Obeidat is a prominent Arab tribe based in eastern Libya, historically influential in the region’s social and political landscape.
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A.
Al-Hareeq
Al-Hareeq is a town in central Saudi Arabia known for its agricultural activity, particularly date palm cultivation, within the Riyadh region.
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B.
Belqasim
Belqasim is a personal given name of Arabic origin, used primarily in North African and Middle Eastern cultures.
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C.
Khudayar
Khudayar is a male given name most notably associated with Khudayar Khan, a 19th-century ruler of the Khanate of Kokand in Central Asia.
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D.
Sumail
Sumail is a town in the Dohuk Governorate of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, known historically for its Assyrian population and its role in regional conflicts.
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E.
Khath‘am
Khath‘am is an ancient Arab tribe known from early Islamic history, to which the companion Asma bint Umais belonged.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Arab tribe ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Cyrenaica
ⓘ
Libyan history ⓘ |
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Libya ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Arab world ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arabs ⓘ |
| ethnicIdentity |
Arab
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabs
|
| geopoliticalRelevance | eastern Libya ⓘ |
| hasNotableFeature |
historically influential in eastern Libya’s political landscape
ⓘ
historically influential in eastern Libya’s social landscape ⓘ |
| hasRole |
influential political actor in eastern Libya
ⓘ
influential social actor in eastern Libya ⓘ prominent tribe in eastern Libya ⓘ |
| historicalInfluence |
regional politics in eastern Libya
ⓘ
regional society in eastern Libya ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
studies on Libyan tribes
ⓘ
studies on tribal politics in Libya ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| partOf | Libyan tribal system ⓘ |
| region | eastern Libya ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| socialStructure | tribal ⓘ |
| typeOfOrganization | kinship-based group ⓘ |
| usesLanguageVariety |
Libyan Arabic
ⓘ
linked to:
Maghrebi Arabic
|
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: Obeidat Description of subject: Obeidat is a prominent Arab tribe based in eastern Libya, historically influential in the region’s social and political landscape.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
eastern Libya