ʿAmr
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ʿAmr is an Arabic male given name of historical and religious significance, borne by several notable figures in early Islamic and pre-Islamic history.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1428297 — 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: ʿAmr Context triple: [Amr, hasVariantSpelling, ʿAmr]
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A.
Amr ibn Abd Wudd
Amr ibn Abd Wudd was a renowned pre-Islamic Arab warrior of the Quraysh, famed for his strength and bravery and remembered for being slain in single combat by Ali ibn Abi Talib during the Battle of the Trench.
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B.
Amr ibn al-As
Amr ibn al-As was a prominent 7th-century Arab military commander and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, best known for leading the Muslim conquest of Egypt and founding the city of Fustat.
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C.
Amr ibn Umayya ad-Damri
Amr ibn Umayya ad-Damri was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad known from early Islamic tradition as a figure involved in key diplomatic and military missions.
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D.
Umara ibn Hamza
Umara ibn Hamza was an early Islamic figure known primarily as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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E.
Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi was a 7th-century Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, renowned for leading the Muslim expansion into North Africa and establishing it as a key region of the Islamic world.
- 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: ʿAmr Target entity description: ʿAmr is an Arabic male given name of historical and religious significance, borne by several notable figures in early Islamic and pre-Islamic history.
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A.
Amr ibn Abd Wudd
Amr ibn Abd Wudd was a renowned pre-Islamic Arab warrior of the Quraysh, famed for his strength and bravery and remembered for being slain in single combat by Ali ibn Abi Talib during the Battle of the Trench.
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B.
Amr ibn al-As
Amr ibn al-As was a prominent 7th-century Arab military commander and companion of the Prophet Muhammad, best known for leading the Muslim conquest of Egypt and founding the city of Fustat.
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C.
Amr ibn Umayya ad-Damri
Amr ibn Umayya ad-Damri was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad known from early Islamic tradition as a figure involved in key diplomatic and military missions.
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D.
Umara ibn Hamza
Umara ibn Hamza was an early Islamic figure known primarily as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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E.
Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi was a 7th-century Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, renowned for leading the Muslim expansion into North Africa and establishing it as a key region of the Islamic world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic masculine given name
ⓘ
theophoric name ⓘ |
| associatedWithLanguageCommunity |
Arabic-speaking Christians
ⓘ
Arabic-speaking Muslims ⓘ |
| category |
Arabic-language masculine given names
ⓘ
Masculine given names ⓘ |
| commonInCountry |
Egypt
ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ Jordan ⓘ Kuwait ⓘ Oman ⓘ Qatar ⓘ Saudi Arabia ⓘ Sudan ⓘ Syria ⓘ United Arab Emirates ⓘ Yemen ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCulturalRegion |
Arab world
ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalSignificance | yes ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUsagePeriod |
early Islamic period
ⓘ
pre-Islamic Arabia ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
ʿAmr ibn Hishām
ⓘ
Amr ibn Ma‘di Yakrib ⓘ
surface form:
ʿAmr ibn Maʿdīkarib
ʿAmr ibn Taghlib ⓘ Amr ibn al-Jamuh ⓘ
surface form:
ʿAmr ibn al-Jamūḥ
Amr ibn al-As ⓘ
surface form:
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ
ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil ⓘ ʿAmr ibn ʿAbasa ⓘ Amr ibn Abd Wudd ⓘ
surface form:
ʿAmr ibn ʿAbd Wudd
|
| hasReligiousSignificance | yes ⓘ |
| hasTransliteration |
Amr
ⓘ
ʿAmr self-link ⓘ |
| hasVariantSpelling |
Amr
ⓘ
ʿAmr self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
ʿAmru
|
| isUsedAs | first name ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Arabic ⓘ |
| namePosition | personal name ⓘ |
| nameType | given name ⓘ |
| occursIn |
early Arabic poetry
ⓘ
early Islamic biographies ⓘ hadith literature ⓘ |
| orthographicNote | initial character is Arabic letter ʿayn (ʿ) ⓘ |
| script | Arabic script ⓘ |
| usedInReligion | Islam ⓘ |
| writingDirection | right-to-left ⓘ |
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: ʿAmr Description of subject: ʿAmr is an Arabic male given name of historical and religious significance, borne by several notable figures in early Islamic and pre-Islamic history.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ʿĀmir
this entity surface form:
ʿAmru