ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
E671929
Arab man
Meccan notable
Qurayshite
historical figure
opponent of Muhammad
polytheist
uncle of Muhammad
ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, better known as Abu Lahab, was an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad and a prominent Meccan opponent of early Islam who is condemned in the Qur’an.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7229368 — 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: ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib Context triple: [Abu Lahab, fullName, ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib]
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A.
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca.
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B.
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in early Islamic history.
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C.
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the prominent Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh in Mecca.
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D.
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad, known in early Islamic history for her lineage within the prominent Hashim clan of Quraysh.
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E.
Umm Ḥakīm al-Bayḍāʾ bint Abd al-Muttalib
Umm Ḥakīm al-Bayḍāʾ bint Abd al-Muttalib was a Qurayshi woman of the Hashimite clan, known primarily as a paternal aunt 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: ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib Target entity description: ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, better known as Abu Lahab, was an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad and a prominent Meccan opponent of early Islam who is condemned in the Qur’an.
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A.
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca.
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B.
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in early Islamic history.
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C.
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the prominent Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh in Mecca.
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D.
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad, known in early Islamic history for her lineage within the prominent Hashim clan of Quraysh.
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E.
Umm Ḥakīm al-Bayḍāʾ bint Abd al-Muttalib
Umm Ḥakīm al-Bayḍāʾ bint Abd al-Muttalib was a Qurayshi woman of the Hashimite clan, known primarily as a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arab man
ⓘ
Meccan notable ⓘ Qurayshite ⓘ historical figure ⓘ opponent of Muhammad ⓘ polytheist ⓘ uncle of Muhammad ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Kaaba guardianship family (Banū Hāshim) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| brotherInLaw | Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Durra bint Abī Lahab
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Muʿattib ibn Abī Lahab NERFINISHED ⓘ ʿUtayba ibn Abī Lahab NERFINISHED ⓘ ʿUtba ibn Abī Lahab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clan | Quraysh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diedBefore | Conquest of Mecca NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| diedIn | Mecca (according to traditional accounts) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eponym | Abu Lahab (father of flame) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
|
| father | ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlias |
Abu Lahab
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Abu Lahab ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib NERFINISHED ⓘ Abū Lahab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole | leader among Quraysh opponents of Muhammad ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being condemned in the Qur’an
ⓘ
opposition to early Islam ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| mentionedIn | Qur’an, Surah al-Masad (Surah 111) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Lubnā bint Hājir (attributed, uncertain) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | servant of al-ʿUzzā ⓘ |
| opposed |
Islam
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Prophet Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| quranicName | Abī Lahab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| quranicSurahName | al-Masad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| quranicSurahNumber | 111 ⓘ |
| region | Hejaz ⓘ |
| relative |
Abū Ṭālib ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib NERFINISHED ⓘ Ḥamza ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Arab paganism ⓘ |
| sourceType | Islamic tradition ⓘ |
| spouse |
Arwā bint Ḥarb (Umm Jamīl)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Umm Jamīl bint Ḥarb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 6th–7th century CE ⓘ |
| tribe | Banū Hāshim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncleOf | Prophet Muhammad 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: ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib Description of subject: ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, better known as Abu Lahab, was an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad and a prominent Meccan opponent of early Islam who is condemned in the Qur’an.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.