ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh
E128531
ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh was the first Fatimid caliph and Isma'ili imam who established a Shi'a caliphate in North Africa in the early 10th century.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| al-Mahdī bi-llāh | 3 |
| ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh canonical | 2 |
| ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī | 2 |
| al-Mahdī Billāh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1127187 — 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 al-Mahdī Billāh Context triple: [Fatimid Caliphate, foundedBy, ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh]
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A.
al-Ma'mun
Al-Ma'mun was a prominent Abbasid caliph known for his patronage of science and philosophy, the founding of the Bayt al-Hikma (House of Wisdom) in Baghdad, and his role in the Mihna (inquisition) over Islamic doctrine.
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B.
Al-Walid I
Al-Walid I was an Umayyad caliph (r. 705–715) known for major expansions of the Islamic empire and for sponsoring monumental architectural projects, including significant works at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Great Mosque of Damascus.
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C.
al-Mu'tasim
Al-Mu'tasim was an Abbasid caliph (r. 833–842 CE) known for founding the city of Samarra and expanding the use of Turkish slave soldiers in the caliphal army.
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D.
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was an 11th-century Fatimid caliph in Egypt whose eccentric rule and deification by some followers made him a central, controversial figure in the origins of the Druze faith.
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E.
al-Mutawakkil III
Al-Mutawakkil III was the final Abbasid caliph in Cairo, whose deposition by the Ottoman sultan Selim I in 1517 symbolically ended the Abbasid caliphal line.
- 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 al-Mahdī Billāh Target entity description: ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh was the first Fatimid caliph and Isma'ili imam who established a Shi'a caliphate in North Africa in the early 10th century.
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A.
al-Ma'mun
Al-Ma'mun was a prominent Abbasid caliph known for his patronage of science and philosophy, the founding of the Bayt al-Hikma (House of Wisdom) in Baghdad, and his role in the Mihna (inquisition) over Islamic doctrine.
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B.
Al-Walid I
Al-Walid I was an Umayyad caliph (r. 705–715) known for major expansions of the Islamic empire and for sponsoring monumental architectural projects, including significant works at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Great Mosque of Damascus.
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C.
al-Mu'tasim
Al-Mu'tasim was an Abbasid caliph (r. 833–842 CE) known for founding the city of Samarra and expanding the use of Turkish slave soldiers in the caliphal army.
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D.
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was an 11th-century Fatimid caliph in Egypt whose eccentric rule and deification by some followers made him a central, controversial figure in the origins of the Druze faith.
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E.
al-Mutawakkil III
Al-Mutawakkil III was the final Abbasid caliph in Cairo, whose deposition by the Ottoman sultan Selim I in 1517 symbolically ended the Abbasid caliphal line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 al-Mahdī Billāh Description of subject: ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh was the first Fatimid caliph and Isma'ili imam who established a Shi'a caliphate in North Africa in the early 10th century.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
al-Mahdī Billāh
this entity surface form:
ʿUbayd Allāh al-Mahdī
this entity surface form:
al-Mahdī bi-llāh
this entity surface form:
al-Mahdī bi-llāh
this entity surface form:
al-Mahdī bi-llāh