al-Mu'tazz
E271077
Al-Mu'tazz was an Abbasid caliph of the 9th century whose troubled reign was marked by military dominance over the caliphate and severe internal instability.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| al-Mu'tazz canonical | 10 |
| Caliph al-Mu'tazz | 2 |
| al-Muʿtazz bi-llāh | 2 |
| Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Muʿtazz bi-llāh | 1 |
| Al-Mu'tazz | 1 |
| al-Mu'tazz bi-llah | 1 |
| al-Muʿtazz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2186674 — 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: al-Mu'tazz Context triple: [Samarra period, hasCaliph, al-Mu'tazz]
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A.
al-Mu'tasim
Al-Mu'tasim was an Abbasid caliph (r. 833–842 CE) known for founding the city of Samarra and expanding the use of Turkish slave soldiers in the caliphal army.
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B.
al-Mutawakkil
Al-Mutawakkil was an Abbasid caliph of the 9th century known for restoring Sunni orthodoxy and reversing earlier religious policies of his predecessors.
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C.
al-Mutawakkil III
Al-Mutawakkil III was the final Abbasid caliph in Cairo, whose deposition by the Ottoman sultan Selim I in 1517 symbolically ended the Abbasid caliphal line.
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D.
al-Muhtadi
Al-Muhtadi was an Abbasid caliph of the 9th century known for his brief, reform-minded reign marked by attempts to restore moral rigor and reduce court corruption during a turbulent period of political instability.
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E.
Hisham III
Hisham III was the final Umayyad ruler of the Caliphate of Córdoba, presiding over its decline and eventual collapse in the early 11th century.
- 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: al-Mu'tazz Target entity description: Al-Mu'tazz was an Abbasid caliph of the 9th century whose troubled reign was marked by military dominance over the caliphate and severe internal instability.
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A.
al-Mu'tasim
Al-Mu'tasim was an Abbasid caliph (r. 833–842 CE) known for founding the city of Samarra and expanding the use of Turkish slave soldiers in the caliphal army.
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B.
al-Mutawakkil
Al-Mutawakkil was an Abbasid caliph of the 9th century known for restoring Sunni orthodoxy and reversing earlier religious policies of his predecessors.
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C.
al-Mutawakkil III
Al-Mutawakkil III was the final Abbasid caliph in Cairo, whose deposition by the Ottoman sultan Selim I in 1517 symbolically ended the Abbasid caliphal line.
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D.
al-Muhtadi
Al-Muhtadi was an Abbasid caliph of the 9th century known for his brief, reform-minded reign marked by attempts to restore moral rigor and reduce court corruption during a turbulent period of political instability.
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E.
Hisham III
Hisham III was the final Umayyad ruler of the Caliphate of Córdoba, presiding over its decline and eventual collapse in the early 11th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: al-Mu'tazz Description of subject: Al-Mu'tazz was an Abbasid caliph of the 9th century whose troubled reign was marked by military dominance over the caliphate and severe internal instability.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: al-Mu'tazz
linked to: al-Mu'tazz
linked to: al-Mu'tazz
linked to: al-Mu'tazz
linked to: al-Mu'tazz
linked to: al-Mu'tazz
linked to: al-Mu'tazz
subject linked to:
al-Mu'tazz's brother Abu Ahmad (Talha)
subject linked to:
al-Mu'tazz's brother Abu Ahmad (Talha)