Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib
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Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and an early Muslim woman known for her courage and support of Islam.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib canonical | 2 |
| Ṣafiyya bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1378812 — 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: Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib Context triple: [Abd al-Muttalib, daughter, Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib]
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A.
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish-born noblewoman from the Banu Nadir tribe who became one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as a Mother of the Believers in Islam.
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B.
Fatimah bint Muhammad
Fatimah bint Muhammad was the youngest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, revered in Islam for her piety and as a central figure in both Sunni and Shia traditions.
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C.
Safiyyah bint Abi al-As
Safiyyah bint Abi al-As was an early woman of Quraysh known in Islamic tradition primarily as the mother of Umm Habiba, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Zaynab bint Muhammad
Zaynab bint Muhammad was the eldest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadijah, known as one of the early Muslim women of Mecca.
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E.
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was a wealthy and respected Meccan businesswoman who became the first person to embrace Islam and a key supporter of the Prophet Muhammad.
- 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: Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib Target entity description: Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and an early Muslim woman known for her courage and support of Islam.
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A.
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish-born noblewoman from the Banu Nadir tribe who became one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as a Mother of the Believers in Islam.
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B.
Fatimah bint Muhammad
Fatimah bint Muhammad was the youngest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, revered in Islam for her piety and as a central figure in both Sunni and Shia traditions.
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C.
Safiyyah bint Abi al-As
Safiyyah bint Abi al-As was an early woman of Quraysh known in Islamic tradition primarily as the mother of Umm Habiba, one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Zaynab bint Muhammad
Zaynab bint Muhammad was the eldest daughter of the Prophet Muhammad and Khadijah, known as one of the early Muslim women of Mecca.
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E.
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was a wealthy and respected Meccan businesswoman who became the first person to embrace Islam and a key supporter of the Prophet Muhammad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Companion of Muhammad
ⓘ
early Muslim woman ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| clan | Banu Hashim ⓘ |
| conversionTo | Islam ⓘ |
| era | early 7th century ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Arab ⓘ |
| familyRelation | member of the Prophet’s extended family (Ahl al-Bayt in a broad sense) ⓘ |
| father | Abd al-Muttalib ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownFor |
courage
ⓘ
participation in early Muslim community ⓘ support of Islam ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
bravery
ⓘ
loyalty to Islam ⓘ |
| paternalAuntOf |
Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
|
| placeOfOrigin | Mecca ⓘ |
| relativeOf |
Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
|
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInIslam |
participant in defense of the Muslim community
ⓘ
supporter of the Prophet ⓘ |
| supported |
Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
early Muslims ⓘ |
| tribe | 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: Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib Description of subject: Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and an early Muslim woman known for her courage and support of Islam.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ṣafiyya bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib