Husayn ibn Ali
E79299
Husayn ibn Ali is the revered grandson of the Prophet Muhammad whose martyrdom at the Battle of Karbala is a central event in Islamic, especially Shia, history and spirituality.
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Husayn ibn Ali canonical | 85 |
| Hussein bin Ali | 4 |
| Husayn | 3 |
| Abu Abd Allah al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib | 1 |
| Al-Husayn ibn Ali | 1 |
| Al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib | 1 |
| Husayn ibn Ali and supporters | 1 |
| al-Husayn ibn Ali | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T621579 — 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: Husayn ibn Ali Context triple: [Shia Islam, venerates, Husayn ibn Ali]
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A.
Hussein
Hussein is a common Arabic surname and given name, notably borne by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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B.
bint Hussein
bint Hussein is the family name of Princess Haya, a Jordanian royal known internationally for her humanitarian work and role as a former wife of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
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C.
Qasim ibn Muhammad
Qasim ibn Muhammad was the eldest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who died in childhood in Mecca.
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D.
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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E.
Abdullah ibn Muhammad
Abdullah ibn Muhammad was one of the sons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who died in early childhood.
- 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: Husayn ibn Ali Target entity description: Husayn ibn Ali is the revered grandson of the Prophet Muhammad whose martyrdom at the Battle of Karbala is a central event in Islamic, especially Shia, history and spirituality.
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A.
Hussein
Hussein is a common Arabic surname and given name, notably borne by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
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B.
bint Hussein
bint Hussein is the family name of Princess Haya, a Jordanian royal known internationally for her humanitarian work and role as a former wife of Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
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C.
Qasim ibn Muhammad
Qasim ibn Muhammad was the eldest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who died in childhood in Mecca.
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D.
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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E.
Abdullah ibn Muhammad
Abdullah ibn Muhammad was one of the sons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who died in early childhood.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Husayn ibn Ali Description of subject: Husayn ibn Ali is the revered grandson of the Prophet Muhammad whose martyrdom at the Battle of Karbala is a central event in Islamic, especially Shia, history and spirituality.
Referenced by (97)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Ali ibn Abi Talib
subject surface form:
Ali ibn Abi Talib
subject surface form:
Shahrbanu
this entity surface form:
Al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib
this entity surface form:
Husayn