Zaynab bint Abi Salama
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Zaynab bint Abi Salama was the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife Umm Salama and her first husband Abu Salama, and a member of the early Muslim community in Medina.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zaynab bint Abi Salama canonical | 3 |
| Durra bint Abi Salama | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1492716 — 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: Zaynab bint Abi Salama Context triple: [Umm Salama, childrenWithAbuSalama, Zaynab bint Abi Salama]
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A.
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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B.
Zaynab bint Jahsh
Zaynab bint Jahsh was a prominent early Muslim woman and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and charitable nature.
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C.
Fatimah bint Amr
Fatimah bint Amr was a noblewoman of the Quraysh tribe and the paternal grandmother of the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Sawda bint Zamʿa
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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E.
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.
- 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: Zaynab bint Abi Salama Target entity description: Zaynab bint Abi Salama was the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife Umm Salama and her first husband Abu Salama, and a member of the early Muslim community in Medina.
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A.
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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B.
Zaynab bint Jahsh
Zaynab bint Jahsh was a prominent early Muslim woman and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and charitable nature.
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C.
Fatimah bint Amr
Fatimah bint Amr was a noblewoman of the Quraysh tribe and the paternal grandmother of the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Sawda bint Zamʿa
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Companion of the Prophet Muhammad
ⓘ
early Muslim woman ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
|
| father | Abu Salama ibn Abd al-Asad ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the daughter of Abu Salama
ⓘ
being the daughter of Umm Salama ⓘ being the stepdaughter of the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| memberOf | early Muslim community in Medina ⓘ |
| mother | Umm Salama ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Household of Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Household of the Prophet Muhammad
family of Abu Salama ⓘ family of Umm Salama ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Medina ⓘ |
| stepFather |
Muhammad
ⓘ
surface form:
Prophet Muhammad
|
| timePeriod | early Islamic period ⓘ |
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: Zaynab bint Abi Salama Description of subject: Zaynab bint Abi Salama was the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad’s wife Umm Salama and her first husband Abu Salama, and a member of the early Muslim community in Medina.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Durra bint Abi Salama