Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas
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Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading early Muslim general, renowned for commanding the Muslim forces at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and helping establish Islamic rule in Iraq.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas canonical | 14 |
| Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas | 4 |
| Saad ibn Abi Waqqas | 2 |
| Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ | 1 |
| Sa‘d ibn Abi Waqqas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2153913 — 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: Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas Context triple: [Kufa, foundedBy, Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas]
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A.
Umar ibn Abi Salama
Umar ibn Abi Salama was a young Companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the stepson of the Prophet through his mother, Umm Salama.
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B.
Salama ibn Abi Salama
Salama ibn Abi Salama was a son of the Prophet Muhammad’s companion Abu Salama and his wife Umm Salama, who later became one of the Prophet’s wives.
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C.
Umara ibn Hamza
Umara ibn Hamza was an early Islamic figure known primarily as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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D.
Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi
Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi was a Meccan merchant and early associate of the Prophet Muhammad, best known as the husband of the Prophet’s eldest daughter Zaynab and for his eventual conversion to Islam.
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E.
Bilal ibn Rabah
Bilal ibn Rabah was a prominent early companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned as Islam’s first muezzin and a symbol of faith and perseverance, especially noted for giving the call to prayer at the Kaaba after the Muslim conquest of 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: Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas Target entity description: Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading early Muslim general, renowned for commanding the Muslim forces at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and helping establish Islamic rule in Iraq.
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A.
Umar ibn Abi Salama
Umar ibn Abi Salama was a young Companion of the Prophet Muhammad and the stepson of the Prophet through his mother, Umm Salama.
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B.
Salama ibn Abi Salama
Salama ibn Abi Salama was a son of the Prophet Muhammad’s companion Abu Salama and his wife Umm Salama, who later became one of the Prophet’s wives.
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C.
Umara ibn Hamza
Umara ibn Hamza was an early Islamic figure known primarily as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad’s uncle Hamza ibn Abd al-Muttalib.
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D.
Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi
Abu al-As ibn al-Rabi was a Meccan merchant and early associate of the Prophet Muhammad, best known as the husband of the Prophet’s eldest daughter Zaynab and for his eventual conversion to Islam.
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E.
Bilal ibn Rabah
Bilal ibn Rabah was a prominent early companion of the Prophet Muhammad, renowned as Islam’s first muezzin and a symbol of faith and perseverance, especially noted for giving the call to prayer at the Kaaba after the Muslim conquest of Mecca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas Description of subject: Saʿd ibn Abi Waqqas was a prominent companion of the Prophet Muhammad and a leading early Muslim general, renowned for commanding the Muslim forces at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah and helping establish Islamic rule in Iraq.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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