Hajr al-Yamama
E1009401
Hajr al-Yamama was an important early Islamic-era town in the historical region of Al-Yamama in central Arabia, serving as a key political and commercial center before the rise of Riyadh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hajr al-Yamama canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11083019 — 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: Hajr al-Yamama Context triple: [Al-Yamama, urbanCenterHistorical, Hajr al-Yamama]
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A.
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza was a Qurayshi woman of pre-Islamic Mecca known primarily as the mother of Aminah bint Wahb, the maternal grandmother of the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Hamna bint Jahsh
Hamna bint Jahsh was a female companion of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her early conversion to Islam and participation in key events of the early Muslim community.
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C.
Lubnā bint Hājir
Lubnā bint Hājir was a wife of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus a member of the early Qurayshite nobility in Mecca.
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D.
Hind bint Khuwaylid
Hind bint Khuwaylid, better known as Khadijah, was the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad and the first person to embrace Islam, renowned for her wealth, integrity, and unwavering support of his mission.
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E.
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish-born noblewoman from the Banu Nadir tribe who became one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as a Mother of the Believers in Islam.
- 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: Hajr al-Yamama Target entity description: Hajr al-Yamama was an important early Islamic-era town in the historical region of Al-Yamama in central Arabia, serving as a key political and commercial center before the rise of Riyadh.
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A.
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza
Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza was a Qurayshi woman of pre-Islamic Mecca known primarily as the mother of Aminah bint Wahb, the maternal grandmother of the Prophet Muhammad.
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B.
Hamna bint Jahsh
Hamna bint Jahsh was a female companion of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her early conversion to Islam and participation in key events of the early Muslim community.
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C.
Lubnā bint Hājir
Lubnā bint Hājir was a wife of ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib, the grandfather of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus a member of the early Qurayshite nobility in Mecca.
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D.
Hind bint Khuwaylid
Hind bint Khuwaylid, better known as Khadijah, was the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad and the first person to embrace Islam, renowned for her wealth, integrity, and unwavering support of his mission.
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E.
Safiyya bint Huyayy
Safiyya bint Huyayy was a Jewish-born noblewoman from the Banu Nadir tribe who became one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad and is regarded as a Mother of the Believers in Islam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical town
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settlement ⓘ |
| country | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| culturalRegion | Najd ⓘ |
| declineRelativeTo | Riyadh ⓘ |
| era |
Abbasid period (approximate)
ⓘ
linked to:
Abbasid Caliphate
Umayyad period (approximate) ⓘ
linked to:
Early Islamic period
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| followedBy | Riyadh ⓘ |
| historicalStatus | former regional capital of Al-Yamama ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Al-Yamama
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Arabian Peninsula ⓘ central Arabia ⓘ |
| modernLegacy | area associated with the later development of Riyadh ⓘ |
| partOf | historical region of Al-Yamama ⓘ |
| politicalFunction | seat of local rulers of Al-Yamama ⓘ |
| precededBy | pre-Islamic settlements in Al-Yamama ⓘ |
| regionType | oasis town ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam (dominant during early Islamic era)
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linked to:
Islamic period
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| role |
commercial center
ⓘ
political center ⓘ |
| significance | key urban center in central Arabia before the rise of Riyadh ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early Islamic era ⓘ |
| tradeFunction |
market for regional agricultural products
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node on caravan and overland trade routes in central Arabia ⓘ |
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: Hajr al-Yamama Description of subject: Hajr al-Yamama was an important early Islamic-era town in the historical region of Al-Yamama in central Arabia, serving as a key political and commercial center before the rise of Riyadh.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.