Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
E103442
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading Quraysh tribal chief whose lineage founded the influential Banu Hashim clan in Mecca.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hashim ibn Abd Manaf canonical | 15 |
| Hāshim ibn ʿAbd Manāf | 3 |
| Shayba ibn Hāshim | 1 |
| ʿAmr al-ʿUlā ibn ʿAbd Manāf | 1 |
| هاشم بن عبد مناف | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T836533 — 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: Hashim ibn Abd Manaf Context triple: [House of Hashim, namedAfter, Hashim ibn Abd Manaf]
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A.
Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib was a prominent early Muslim and renowned warrior, honored with the title "Lion of God" for his bravery and martyrdom in the Battle of Uhud.
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B.
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib was a Meccan merchant from the Quraysh tribe best known as the father of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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C.
al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib was an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad and a prominent early supporter of Islam whose descendants founded the Abbasid dynasty.
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D.
Abdullah ibn Muhammad
Abdullah ibn Muhammad was one of the sons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who died in early childhood.
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E.
Abd al-Muttalib
Abd al-Muttalib was a prominent leader of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca and the paternal grandfather of the Islamic 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: Hashim ibn Abd Manaf Target entity description: Hashim ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading Quraysh tribal chief whose lineage founded the influential Banu Hashim clan in Mecca.
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A.
Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib was a prominent early Muslim and renowned warrior, honored with the title "Lion of God" for his bravery and martyrdom in the Battle of Uhud.
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B.
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib was a Meccan merchant from the Quraysh tribe best known as the father of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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C.
al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib
Al-Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib was an uncle of the Prophet Muhammad and a prominent early supporter of Islam whose descendants founded the Abbasid dynasty.
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D.
Abdullah ibn Muhammad
Abdullah ibn Muhammad was one of the sons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who died in early childhood.
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E.
Abd al-Muttalib
Abd al-Muttalib was a prominent leader of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca and the paternal grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arab tribal leader
ⓘ
ancestor of Muhammad ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWithSanctuary | Kaaba ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mecca ⓘ |
| brother |
Abd Shams ibn Abd Manaf
ⓘ
Muttalib ibn Abd Manaf ⓘ Nawfal ibn Abd Manaf ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Gaza
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaza Strip
|
| child |
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim
ⓘ
linked to:
Abd al-Muttalib
|
| clanFounded | Banu Hashim ⓘ |
| clanRival |
Banu Umayya
ⓘ
linked to:
Banu Umayyah
|
| deathPlace |
Gaza
ⓘ
linked to:
Gaza City
|
| deathRegion |
Bilad al-Sham
ⓘ
linked to:
Bilad al-Sham@ar
|
| descendant |
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim
ⓘ
linked to:
Abd al-Muttalib
Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib ⓘ Prophet Muhammad ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad
|
| era |
pre-Islamic Arabia
ⓘ
linked to:
Pre-Islamic Arabia
|
| ethnicity |
Arab
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabs
|
| father |
Abd Manaf ibn Qusay
ⓘ
linked to:
Abd Manaf ibn Zuhrah
|
| fullName |
ʿAmr al-ʿUlā ibn ʿAbd Manāf
ⓘ
linked to:
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| grandfather | Qusayy ibn Kilab ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | 6th century CE (approximate) ⓘ |
| knownAs | Hashim ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| lineageSignificance | progenitor of the Hashemite line ⓘ |
| nameEtymology | called Hashim because he crumbled bread for pilgrims ⓘ |
| notableFor |
organizing Quraysh trade caravans to Syria and Yemen
ⓘ
providing food and water to pilgrims in Mecca ⓘ securing trade agreements for Quraysh ⓘ |
| occupation |
caravan organizer
ⓘ
merchant ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Mecca ⓘ |
| region | Hejaz ⓘ |
| relative | Umayya ibn Abd Shams ⓘ |
| religion | Arab paganism ⓘ |
| role | custodian of pilgrims ⓘ |
| spouse | Salma bint Amr ⓘ |
| spouseTribe |
Banu Najjar
ⓘ
Khazraj ⓘ |
| tribalConfederation |
Quraysh al-Bitah
ⓘ
linked to:
Quraysh
|
| tribalStatus | leading chief of Quraysh ⓘ |
| tribe | Quraysh ⓘ |
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: Hashim ibn Abd Manaf Description of subject: Hashim ibn Abd Manaf was a prominent ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading Quraysh tribal chief whose lineage founded the influential Banu Hashim clan in Mecca.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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