Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf
E465038
Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent pre-Islamic Meccan leader of the Quraysh tribe and the uncle and guardian of Abd al-Muttalib, grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4589263 — 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: Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf Context triple: [Hashim ibn Abd Manaf, brother, Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf]
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Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading Quraysh tribal chief whose lineage founded the influential Banu Hashim clan in Mecca.
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B.
Wahb ibn Abd Manaf
Wahb ibn Abd Manaf was a respected member of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic Mecca and the maternal grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf
Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent ancestor of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic Mecca and the eponymous forefather of the powerful Umayyad clan.
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D.
Al-Ḥijāl ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
Al-Ḥijāl ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was one of the sons of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, making him an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad in the early Quraysh clan of Mecca.
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E.
Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah
Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah was a Qurayshi ancestor from the Banu Zuhrah clan, known primarily as the maternal grandfather of Aminah bint Wahb and thus a forebear 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: Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf Target entity description: Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent pre-Islamic Meccan leader of the Quraysh tribe and the uncle and guardian of Abd al-Muttalib, grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A.
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading Quraysh tribal chief whose lineage founded the influential Banu Hashim clan in Mecca.
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B.
Wahb ibn Abd Manaf
Wahb ibn Abd Manaf was a respected member of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic Mecca and the maternal grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf
Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent ancestor of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic Mecca and the eponymous forefather of the powerful Umayyad clan.
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D.
Al-Ḥijāl ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
Al-Ḥijāl ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib was one of the sons of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, making him an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad in the early Quraysh clan of Mecca.
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E.
Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah
Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah was a Qurayshi ancestor from the Banu Zuhrah clan, known primarily as the maternal grandfather of Aminah bint Wahb and thus a forebear of the Prophet Muhammad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
ⓘ
member of Quraysh ⓘ pre-Islamic Arab leader ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brother | Hashim ibn Abd Manaf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clan | Banu Abd Manaf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
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surface form:
Arab
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| father | Abd Manaf ibn Qusay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| granduncleOf | Prophet Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Abd al-Muttalib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext | genealogical ancestor in the lineage of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| knownFor | care of his nephew Abd al-Muttalib ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| memberOfTribe | Quraysh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameInArabic | المطلب بن عبد مناف NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
guardian of Abd al-Muttalib
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leader of Quraysh ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInTribe | prominent Meccan notable ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Banu Hashim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Hashim ibn Abd Manaf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | pre-Islamic Arabian polytheism ⓘ |
| residence | Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | pre-Islamic Arabia ⓘ |
| uncle | Abd al-Muttalib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf Description of subject: Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent pre-Islamic Meccan leader of the Quraysh tribe and the uncle and guardian of Abd al-Muttalib, grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.