Talha ibn Tahir
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Talha ibn Tahir was a 9th-century Tahirid governor and military leader who ruled Khurasan under the Abbasid Caliphate.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Talha ibn Tahir canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11606364 — 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: Talha ibn Tahir Context triple: [Tahirid dynasty, notableRuler, Talha ibn Tahir]
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A.
Talha ibn Ubayd Allah
Talha ibn Ubayd Allah was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned as one of the ten promised Paradise and noted for his bravery and generosity in early Islamic history.
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B.
Umar al-Muhayshi
Umar al-Muhayshi was a Libyan military officer and early associate of Muammar Gaddafi who later became a prominent dissident involved in plots against Gaddafi’s regime.
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C.
Hanzala ibn Abi Sufyan
Hanzala ibn Abi Sufyan was a son of the prominent Quraysh leader Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, belonging to a notable Meccan family in early Islamic history.
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D.
Tahir ibn al-Husayn
Tahir ibn al-Husayn was a prominent early 9th-century Abbasid general and statesman who played a decisive role in the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun and later founded the semi-autonomous Tahirid dynasty in Khorasan.
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E.
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman was an early Kufan Islamic jurist and prominent scholar of Hanafi legal thought, best known as the principal teacher of Imam Abu Hanifa.
- 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: Talha ibn Tahir Target entity description: Talha ibn Tahir was a 9th-century Tahirid governor and military leader who ruled Khurasan under the Abbasid Caliphate.
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A.
Talha ibn Ubayd Allah
Talha ibn Ubayd Allah was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned as one of the ten promised Paradise and noted for his bravery and generosity in early Islamic history.
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B.
Umar al-Muhayshi
Umar al-Muhayshi was a Libyan military officer and early associate of Muammar Gaddafi who later became a prominent dissident involved in plots against Gaddafi’s regime.
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C.
Hanzala ibn Abi Sufyan
Hanzala ibn Abi Sufyan was a son of the prominent Quraysh leader Abu Sufyan ibn Harb, belonging to a notable Meccan family in early Islamic history.
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D.
Tahir ibn al-Husayn
Tahir ibn al-Husayn was a prominent early 9th-century Abbasid general and statesman who played a decisive role in the civil war between al-Amin and al-Ma'mun and later founded the semi-autonomous Tahirid dynasty in Khorasan.
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E.
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman
Hammad ibn Abi Sulayman was an early Kufan Islamic jurist and prominent scholar of Hanafi legal thought, best known as the principal teacher of Imam Abu Hanifa.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
9th-century person
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Tahirid governor ⓘ historical figure ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Abbasid Caliphate
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Tahirid governors of Khurasan ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 9th century ⓘ |
| country | Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| dynasty | Tahirid dynasty ⓘ |
| era | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| familyName | ibn Tahir ⓘ |
| givenName |
Talha
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linked to:
Talha ibn Ubayd Allah
|
| hasRole |
military leader in Khurasan
ⓘ
provincial ruler ⓘ |
| hasTitle | governor ⓘ |
| memberOf | Tahirid dynasty ⓘ |
| notableFor |
governorship of Khurasan
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service to the Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| occupation |
governor
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military commander ⓘ |
| partOf |
Abbasid provincial administration
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linked to:
Abbasid administration
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| positionHeld | governor of Khurasan ⓘ |
| regionRuled |
Khurasan
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linked to:
Khorasan
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| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| ruledUnder | Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| territorialJurisdiction |
Khurasan
ⓘ
linked to:
Khorasan
|
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: Talha ibn Tahir Description of subject: Talha ibn Tahir was a 9th-century Tahirid governor and military leader who ruled Khurasan under the Abbasid Caliphate.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.