ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad
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ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, better known by his regnal name Abu al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ, was the founder and first caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate who overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in the mid-8th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11162591 — 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: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Context triple: [Abu al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, birthName, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad]
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Abdullah ibn Muhammad
Abdullah ibn Muhammad was one of the sons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who died in early childhood.
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Abdallah ibn Muhammad
Abdallah ibn Muhammad was an Umayyad emir of Córdoba who ruled al-Andalus in the late 9th and early 10th centuries during a period of internal strife and weakening central authority.
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C.
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah was an Umayyad prince of al-Andalus and the father of Abd al-Rahman III, the powerful caliph of Córdoba who led the dynasty to its political and cultural zenith.
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D.
Abd Allah ibn al-Harith
Abd Allah ibn al-Harith was an early Muslim figure from the Quraysh tribe, known as a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a member of a prominent Meccan family.
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E.
ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmir
ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmir was a prominent 7th-century Umayyad general and governor of Basra known for leading major campaigns that consolidated early Islamic rule in Persia and the eastern provinces.
- 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: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Target entity description: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, better known by his regnal name Abu al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ, was the founder and first caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate who overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in the mid-8th century.
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A.
Abdullah ibn Muhammad
Abdullah ibn Muhammad was one of the sons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who died in early childhood.
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B.
Abdallah ibn Muhammad
Abdallah ibn Muhammad was an Umayyad emir of Córdoba who ruled al-Andalus in the late 9th and early 10th centuries during a period of internal strife and weakening central authority.
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C.
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah
Muhammad ibn Abd Allah was an Umayyad prince of al-Andalus and the father of Abd al-Rahman III, the powerful caliph of Córdoba who led the dynasty to its political and cultural zenith.
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D.
Abd Allah ibn al-Harith
Abd Allah ibn al-Harith was an early Muslim figure from the Quraysh tribe, known as a companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a member of a prominent Meccan family.
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E.
ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmir
ʿAbd Allah ibn ʿAmir was a prominent 7th-century Umayyad general and governor of Basra known for leading major campaigns that consolidated early Islamic rule in Persia and the eastern provinces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Abbasid caliph
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caliph ⓘ founder of state ⓘ human ⓘ |
| ancestralClaim | descendant of al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of the Zab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion |
Iraq
NERFINISHED
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Khurasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Bilad al-Sham
NERFINISHED
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al-Humayma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 721 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | al-Anbar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cameToPowerAfter | Abbasid Revolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capitalDuringReign | Kufa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Rayta bint al-Saffah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 754-06-10 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Iraq
NERFINISHED
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al-Anbar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 754 ⓘ |
| dynasty | Abbasid dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| epithet | al-Saffāḥ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| epithetMeaning | the Blood-Shedder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 8th century ⓘ |
| father | Muhammad ibn Ali ibn Abd Allah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founderOf | Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Abbas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownAs | Abu al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| laterSeatOfGovernment | al-Anbar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Rayta bint Ubayd Allah al-Harithiyya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
establishing Abbasid rule over most of the former Umayyad territories
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massacre of Umayyad family members ⓘ |
| overthrew | Umayyad Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate
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first Abbasid caliph ⓘ |
| predecessor | Marwan II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regnalName | Abu al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 754 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 750 ⓘ |
| relative |
al-Mansur
NERFINISHED
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as-Saffah’s uncle Isa ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
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Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| spouse | Umm Salama bint Yaqub al-Makhzumi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | al-Mansur NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| tribe |
Banu Hashim
NERFINISHED
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Quraysh ⓘ |
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: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Description of subject: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad, better known by his regnal name Abu al-ʿAbbās al-Saffāḥ, was the founder and first caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate who overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in the mid-8th century.
Referenced by (1)
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