Sawda bint Zamʿa
E28510
Sawda bint Zamʿa was one of the early wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety, generosity, and role among the first Muslim women in Medina.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sawda bint Zamʿa canonical | 5 |
| Sawda bint Zam‘a | 2 |
| Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Mu'minin) | 1 |
| Sawda bint Zam'a | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212725 — 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: Sawda bint Zamʿa Context triple: [Muhammad, wife, Sawda bint Zamʿa]
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A.
Aminah bint Wahb
Aminah bint Wahb was the mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca.
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B.
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was a prominent early Islamic figure renowned as a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and a major transmitter of hadith and religious knowledge.
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C.
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.
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D.
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid was a Jordanian princess and the first wife of King Hussein of Jordan, who briefly served as Queen consort in the 1950s.
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E.
Queen Zein al-Sharaf
Queen Zein al-Sharaf was a prominent Jordanian queen and political figure known for her influential role in shaping modern Jordan and supporting social and constitutional reforms in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Sawda bint Zamʿa Target entity description: Sawda bint Zamʿa was one of the early wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety, generosity, and role among the first Muslim women in Medina.
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A.
Aminah bint Wahb
Aminah bint Wahb was the mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca.
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B.
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was a prominent early Islamic figure renowned as a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and a major transmitter of hadith and religious knowledge.
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C.
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.
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D.
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid was a Jordanian princess and the first wife of King Hussein of Jordan, who briefly served as Queen consort in the 1950s.
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E.
Queen Zein al-Sharaf
Queen Zein al-Sharaf was a prominent Jordanian queen and political figure known for her influential role in shaping modern Jordan and supporting social and constitutional reforms in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim woman
ⓘ
historical person ⓘ wife of Muhammad ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
early Muslim community in Medina
ⓘ
early Muslim women ⓘ |
| category |
Female Sahaba
ⓘ
Wives of Muhammad ⓘ |
| chronologicalOrderAsWife | among the earliest wives after Khadija ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Arab ⓘ |
| father | Zamʿa ibn Qays ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Mother of the Believers ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the early wives of Muhammad
ⓘ
emigrating to Medina ⓘ generosity ⓘ piety ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| lifeEvent |
lived during the formative period of the Muslim community in Medina
ⓘ
participated in the Hijra from Mecca to Medina ⓘ |
| maritalStatusBeforeMarriageToMuhammad | widow ⓘ |
| marriageType | nikah (Islamic marriage) ⓘ |
| migration |
Hijrah of Prophet Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Hijra to Medina
emigration to Abyssinia ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
charitable
ⓘ
devout in worship ⓘ humble ⓘ |
| relative | Zamʿa ibn Qays ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousStatus | Companion of Muhammad ⓘ |
| residence |
Mecca
ⓘ
Medina ⓘ |
| role | one of the Mothers of the Believers ⓘ |
| spouse | Muhammad ⓘ |
| spouseBeforeMuhammad | as-Sakran ibn Amr ⓘ |
| timeWithMuhammad | lived with him in Medina ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Shia Islam
ⓘ
Sunni Islam ⓘ |
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: Sawda bint Zamʿa Description of subject: Sawda bint Zamʿa was one of the early wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety, generosity, and role among the first Muslim women in Medina.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Mu'minin)
this entity surface form:
Sawda bint Zam‘a
this entity surface form:
Sawda bint Zam‘a
this entity surface form:
Sawda bint Zam'a