Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
E148581
Abu Sufyan ibn Harb was a prominent Meccan leader of the Quraysh tribe who initially opposed the Prophet Muhammad before later converting to Islam and becoming a companion.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abu Sufyan ibn Harb canonical | 32 |
| Abu Sufyan | 2 |
| أبو سفيان صخر بن حرب | 2 |
| Abu Sufyan ibn Harb (by marriage ties through clan) | 1 |
| Abū Sufyān ibn Ḥarb | 1 |
| أبو سفيان | 1 |
| أبو سفيان بن الحارث | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1289277 — 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: Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Context triple: [Battle of Uhud, commander, Abu Sufyan ibn Harb]
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A.
Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi was a 7th-century Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, renowned for leading the Muslim expansion into North Africa and establishing it as a key region of the Islamic world.
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Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
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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Umar ibn al-Khattab
Umar ibn al-Khattab was the second caliph of Islam and a close companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned for his just governance and major role in the early expansion of the Muslim state.
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D.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Khalid ibn al-Walid was a renowned 7th-century Arab Muslim general, celebrated for his military genius and pivotal role in the early Islamic conquests under the Prophet Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphs.
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E.
Qasim ibn Muhammad
Qasim ibn Muhammad was the eldest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who died in childhood in Mecca.
- 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: Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Target entity description: Abu Sufyan ibn Harb was a prominent Meccan leader of the Quraysh tribe who initially opposed the Prophet Muhammad before later converting to Islam and becoming a companion.
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A.
Uqba ibn Nafi
Uqba ibn Nafi was a 7th-century Arab general of the early Islamic conquests, renowned for leading the Muslim expansion into North Africa and establishing it as a key region of the Islamic world.
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B.
Hashim ibn Abd Manaf
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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C.
Umar ibn al-Khattab
Umar ibn al-Khattab was the second caliph of Islam and a close companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned for his just governance and major role in the early expansion of the Muslim state.
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D.
Khalid ibn al-Walid
Khalid ibn al-Walid was a renowned 7th-century Arab Muslim general, celebrated for his military genius and pivotal role in the early Islamic conquests under the Prophet Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphs.
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E.
Qasim ibn Muhammad
Qasim ibn Muhammad was the eldest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who died in childhood in Mecca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Description of subject: Abu Sufyan ibn Harb was a prominent Meccan leader of the Quraysh tribe who initially opposed the Prophet Muhammad before later converting to Islam and becoming a companion.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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