Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz
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Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz, was a Hashemite monarch and son of Sharif Hussein who briefly ruled the Hejaz after World War I and played a role in the Arab nationalist movement that emerged from the Arab Revolt.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ali II ibn Hussein | 1 |
| Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz canonical | 1 |
| Ali ibn al-Husayn, King of Hejaz | 1 |
| King of Hejaz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5673661 — 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: Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz Context triple: [Arab Revolt, leader, Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz]
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A.
Husayn ibn Ali, King of Hejaz
Husayn ibn Ali, King of Hejaz, was an early 20th-century Arab leader who spearheaded the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire and briefly ruled the Hejaz before being deposed by Ibn Saud.
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B.
Prince Faisal bin Hussein
Prince Faisal bin Hussein is a Jordanian royal and military officer, known as the brother of King Abdullah II and a senior figure in Jordan’s armed forces and public life.
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C.
Sharif of Mecca
The Sharif of Mecca was the hereditary ruler and guardian of Islam’s holiest city, traditionally drawn from the Hashemite lineage claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Ghazi bin Faisal
Ghazi bin Faisal was the second king of Iraq, ruling from 1933 until his death in 1939 as a member of the Hashemite dynasty.
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E.
Prince Omar bin Faisal
Prince Omar bin Faisal is a Jordanian royal and son of Prince Faisal bin Hussein, belonging to the Hashemite family that rules Jordan.
- 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: Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz Target entity description: Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz, was a Hashemite monarch and son of Sharif Hussein who briefly ruled the Hejaz after World War I and played a role in the Arab nationalist movement that emerged from the Arab Revolt.
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A.
Husayn ibn Ali, King of Hejaz
Husayn ibn Ali, King of Hejaz, was an early 20th-century Arab leader who spearheaded the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire and briefly ruled the Hejaz before being deposed by Ibn Saud.
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B.
Prince Faisal bin Hussein
Prince Faisal bin Hussein is a Jordanian royal and military officer, known as the brother of King Abdullah II and a senior figure in Jordan’s armed forces and public life.
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C.
Sharif of Mecca
The Sharif of Mecca was the hereditary ruler and guardian of Islam’s holiest city, traditionally drawn from the Hashemite lineage claiming descent from the Prophet Muhammad.
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D.
Ghazi bin Faisal
Ghazi bin Faisal was the second king of Iraq, ruling from 1933 until his death in 1939 as a member of the Hashemite dynasty.
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E.
Prince Omar bin Faisal
Prince Omar bin Faisal is a Jordanian royal and son of Prince Faisal bin Hussein, belonging to the Hashemite family that rules Jordan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hashemite
ⓘ
human ⓘ king ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1879-06-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branchOfIslam | Sunni Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Abd al-Hamid
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Abd al-Ilah NERFINISHED ⓘ Badiya bint Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ Jalila bint Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Kingdom of Hejaz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | Saudi–Hashemite War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryRuled | Kingdom of Hejaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1935-02-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Baghdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasty | Hashemite dynasty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
|
| father | Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle |
King of Hejaz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sharif of Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| house | House of Hashem NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Arabic ⓘ |
| mother | Abdiyya bint Abdullah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Arab nationalism ⓘ |
| name | Ali bin Hussein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Arab Revolt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
King Hussein of Jordan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King Talal of Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
King of Hejaz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sharif of Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForEndOfReign | conquest of Hejaz by Ibn Saud ⓘ |
| regionGoverned | Hejaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1925-12-19 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1924-10-03 ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residenceAfterDeposition | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | participant in the Arab Revolt ⓘ |
| sibling |
Abdullah I of Jordan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Faisal I of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ Prince Zeid bin Hussein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Naqibzadi Khanum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Abdulaziz Ibn Saud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleClaim | Caliph (claimed by his father, associated with Hashemite leadership) ⓘ |
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: Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz Description of subject: Ali bin Hussein, King of Hejaz, was a Hashemite monarch and son of Sharif Hussein who briefly ruled the Hejaz after World War I and played a role in the Arab nationalist movement that emerged from the Arab Revolt.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ali ibn al-Husayn, King of Hejaz
this entity surface form:
King of Hejaz
this entity surface form:
Ali II ibn Hussein