Muslim ibn Aqil
E865283
Muslim ibn Aqil was the cousin and emissary of Husayn ibn Ali to Kufa, revered as an early martyr in the events leading up to the Battle of Karbala.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Muslim ibn Aqil canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10273004 — 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: Muslim ibn Aqil Context triple: [Great Mosque of Kufa, hasShrineOf, Muslim ibn Aqil]
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A.
Qutham ibn Abbas
Qutham ibn Abbas was a companion and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad who served as a governor in early Islamic history.
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B.
Fihr ibn Malik
Fihr ibn Malik is traditionally regarded as a prominent forefather of the Quraysh tribe and an early ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad in Arab genealogical tradition.
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C.
Khalil ibn Ishaq
Khalil ibn Ishaq was a prominent medieval Maliki jurist best known for his influential legal manual "Mukhtasar Khalil," which became a central reference in Maliki Islamic jurisprudence.
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D.
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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E.
Sa'id ibn Uthman
Sa'id ibn Uthman was a 7th-century Umayyad prince and early Islamic military commander, known as a son of the third caliph Uthman ibn Affan and for his role in the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate.
- 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: Muslim ibn Aqil Target entity description: Muslim ibn Aqil was the cousin and emissary of Husayn ibn Ali to Kufa, revered as an early martyr in the events leading up to the Battle of Karbala.
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A.
Qutham ibn Abbas
Qutham ibn Abbas was a companion and cousin of the Prophet Muhammad who served as a governor in early Islamic history.
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B.
Fihr ibn Malik
Fihr ibn Malik is traditionally regarded as a prominent forefather of the Quraysh tribe and an early ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad in Arab genealogical tradition.
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C.
Khalil ibn Ishaq
Khalil ibn Ishaq was a prominent medieval Maliki jurist best known for his influential legal manual "Mukhtasar Khalil," which became a central reference in Maliki Islamic jurisprudence.
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D.
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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E.
Sa'id ibn Uthman
Sa'id ibn Uthman was a 7th-century Umayyad prince and early Islamic military commander, known as a son of the third caliph Uthman ibn Affan and for his role in the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic historical figure
ⓘ
companion of Husayn ibn Ali ⓘ martyr ⓘ |
| allegiance | Husayn ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedEvent | events leading to the Battle of Karbala ⓘ |
| associatedFigure |
Ali ibn Abi Talib
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Hasan ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ Husayn ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Karbala narrative ⓘ |
| branchOfIslam | Shia Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Kufa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commemoratedOn | days leading up to Ashura ⓘ |
| cousinOf | Husayn ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathCause | execution ⓘ |
| diedIn | Kufa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Arab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Aqil ibn Abi Talib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Muslim ibn Aqil ibn Abi Talib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Muslim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governorOpposedInKufa | Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Abi Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| greatGrandfather | Abd al-Muttalib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasShrine | Kufa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | forces of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad ⓘ |
| languageContext | Arabic ⓘ |
| missionDestination | Kufa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being emissary of Husayn ibn Ali to Kufa
ⓘ
martyrdom before the Battle of Karbala ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Umayyad authority in Kufa ⓘ |
| paternalUncle | Ali ibn Abi Talib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precedesInNarrative | Battle of Karbala NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| rememberedFor |
loyalty to Husayn ibn Ali
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steadfastness under persecution ⓘ |
| role |
emissary
ⓘ
representative of Husayn ibn Ali ⓘ |
| sentBy | Husayn ibn Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| statusInShiaTradition | early martyr ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 7th century ⓘ |
| title | first martyr of the cause of Husayn in Kufa ⓘ |
| tribe | Banu Hashim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedBy | Shia Muslims 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: Muslim ibn Aqil Description of subject: Muslim ibn Aqil was the cousin and emissary of Husayn ibn Ali to Kufa, revered as an early martyr in the events leading up to the Battle of Karbala.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.