Banu Asad
E157894
Banu Asad is an Arab clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca historically known as the clan of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Banu Asad canonical | 2 |
| Banu Asad branch of Quraysh | 1 |
| Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1317077 — 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: Banu Asad Context triple: [Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, clan, Banu Asad]
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A.
Banu Ghatafan
Banu Ghatafan was a powerful tribal confederation of central Arabia that played a significant role in early Islamic-era conflicts and alliances.
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B.
Banu Taym
Banu Taym was a prominent clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca, historically notable as the clan of the first caliph, Abu Bakr.
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C.
Quraysh
Quraysh was the powerful Arab tribe of Mecca that controlled the Kaaba and into which the Prophet Muhammad was born.
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D.
al-Jawad family
The al-Jawad family is the central multigenerational Egyptian family whose changing fortunes and relationships are portrayed across Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
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E.
Banu Adi
Banu Adi was a prominent clan of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca, known for producing notable early Muslims from its lineage.
- 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: Banu Asad Target entity description: Banu Asad is an Arab clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca historically known as the clan of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A.
Banu Ghatafan
Banu Ghatafan was a powerful tribal confederation of central Arabia that played a significant role in early Islamic-era conflicts and alliances.
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B.
Banu Taym
Banu Taym was a prominent clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca, historically notable as the clan of the first caliph, Abu Bakr.
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C.
Quraysh
Quraysh was the powerful Arab tribe of Mecca that controlled the Kaaba and into which the Prophet Muhammad was born.
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D.
al-Jawad family
The al-Jawad family is the central multigenerational Egyptian family whose changing fortunes and relationships are portrayed across Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
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E.
Banu Adi
Banu Adi was a prominent clan of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca, known for producing notable early Muslims from its lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arab clan
ⓘ
Quraysh clan ⓘ |
| ancestralIdentity |
Quraysh
ⓘ
surface form:
Qurayshite Arabs
|
| associatedCity | Mecca ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
early Muslim community in Mecca ⓘ |
| category |
Quraysh
ⓘ
surface form:
Quraysh clans
Tribes of Arabia ⓘ Tribes of the Hejaz ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Arabian Peninsula ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arabs ⓘ |
| genealogicalContext | tribal lineage within Quraysh ⓘ |
| historicalRole | clan of the Prophet Muhammad’s first wife ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | linked to the household of Prophet Muhammad through Khadijah ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Mecca ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the clan of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
ⓘ
connection to early Islam ⓘ |
| notableMember | Khadijah bint Khuwaylid ⓘ |
| partOf | Quraysh ⓘ |
| preIslamicPresence | Mecca ⓘ |
| region | Hejaz ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Islamic history ⓘ |
| socialStructure | clan-based ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 7th century CE ⓘ |
| tribalAffiliation |
Quraysh
ⓘ
surface form:
Quraysh of Mecca
|
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: Banu Asad Description of subject: Banu Asad is an Arab clan of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca historically known as the clan of Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Banu Asad ibn Abd al-Uzza
this entity surface form:
Banu Asad branch of Quraysh