Yahya ibn Ali (attributed in some reports)
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Yahya ibn Ali is a figure mentioned in some Islamic historical and genealogical reports as a son attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib through Asma bint Umais, though his existence and details are subject to scholarly dispute.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yahya ibn Ali (attributed in some reports) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7202486 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yahya ibn Ali (attributed in some reports) Context triple: [Asma bint Umais, child, Yahya ibn Ali (attributed in some reports)]
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Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi
Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi was a prominent 9th-century Andalusian Maliki jurist best known for transmitting and popularizing one of the most authoritative versions of Imam Malik’s legal compendium, al-Muwatta.
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Yahya ibn Muhammad
Yahya ibn Muhammad was a 9th-century Idrisid ruler of Morocco known for consolidating Idrisid power and fostering urban and economic development, particularly in Fes.
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C.
Yahya ibn Zakariya
Yahya ibn Zakariya is the Islamic name for the prophet known in Christianity as John the Baptist, revered for his piety, asceticism, and role in heralding Jesus.
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D.
Yahya ibn Ibrahim
Yahya ibn Ibrahim was a Berber leader and religious reformer who initiated the movement that led to the rise of the Almoravid dynasty in the 11th century.
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E.
Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad
Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad was an 11th-century Isma'ili missionary and theologian regarded as a central founding figure and chief doctrinal authority of the Druze faith.
- 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: Yahya ibn Ali (attributed in some reports) Target entity description: Yahya ibn Ali is a figure mentioned in some Islamic historical and genealogical reports as a son attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib through Asma bint Umais, though his existence and details are subject to scholarly dispute.
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A.
Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi
Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi was a prominent 9th-century Andalusian Maliki jurist best known for transmitting and popularizing one of the most authoritative versions of Imam Malik’s legal compendium, al-Muwatta.
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B.
Yahya ibn Muhammad
Yahya ibn Muhammad was a 9th-century Idrisid ruler of Morocco known for consolidating Idrisid power and fostering urban and economic development, particularly in Fes.
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C.
Yahya ibn Zakariya
Yahya ibn Zakariya is the Islamic name for the prophet known in Christianity as John the Baptist, revered for his piety, asceticism, and role in heralding Jesus.
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D.
Yahya ibn Ibrahim
Yahya ibn Ibrahim was a Berber leader and religious reformer who initiated the movement that led to the rise of the Almoravid dynasty in the 11th century.
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E.
Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad
Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad was an 11th-century Isma'ili missionary and theologian regarded as a central founding figure and chief doctrinal authority of the Druze faith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
disputed historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Ahl al-Bayt
NERFINISHED
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genealogical traditions about the family of Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ |
| attributedSonOf | Ali ibn Abi Talib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| attributedThrough | Asma bint Umais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| detailsStatus | subject to scholarly dispute ⓘ |
| era | early Islamic period ⓘ |
| existenceStatus | subject to scholarly dispute ⓘ |
| father | Ali ibn Abi Talib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
Islamic genealogical reports
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Islamic historical reports ⓘ |
| mother | Asma bint Umais NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Yahya ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | 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: Yahya ibn Ali (attributed in some reports) Description of subject: Yahya ibn Ali is a figure mentioned in some Islamic historical and genealogical reports as a son attributed to Ali ibn Abi Talib through Asma bint Umais, though his existence and details are subject to scholarly dispute.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.