Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib
E241556
Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the prominent Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh in Mecca.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib canonical | 2 |
| Barra bint ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib | 1 |
| برة بنت عبد المطلب | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1378816 — 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: Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib Context triple: [Abd al-Muttalib, daughter, Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib]
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A.
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in early Islamic history.
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B.
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca.
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C.
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad, known in early Islamic history for her lineage within the prominent Hashim clan of Quraysh.
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D.
Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib
Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and an early Muslim woman known for her courage and support of Islam.
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E.
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.
- 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: Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib Target entity description: Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the prominent Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh in Mecca.
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A.
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib
Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in early Islamic history.
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B.
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib
Arwā bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and a woman of the Quraysh tribe in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Mecca.
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C.
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib
ʿĀtika bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad, known in early Islamic history for her lineage within the prominent Hashim clan of Quraysh.
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D.
Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib
Safiyya bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Prophet Muhammad and an early Muslim woman known for her courage and support of Islam.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib Description of subject: Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib was a paternal aunt of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the prominent Banu Hashim clan of Quraysh in Mecca.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib
linked to: Barra bint Abd al-Muttalib