Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
E28128
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was a wealthy and respected Meccan businesswoman who became the first person to embrace Islam and a key supporter of the Prophet Muhammad.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khadijah bint Khuwaylid canonical | 45 |
| Khadija bint Khuwaylid | 10 |
| Khadijah | 2 |
| KhadijahBintKhuwaylid | 2 |
| خديجة بنت خويلد | 2 |
| Khadijah al-Kubra | 1 |
| Khadijah bint Khuwaylid ibn Asad | 1 |
| Khadīja bint Khuwaylid | 1 |
| Khadīja bint Khuwaylid (by marriage ties through Muhammad) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212723 — 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: Khadijah bint Khuwaylid Context triple: [Muhammad, firstWife, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid]
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A.
Aminah bint Wahb
Aminah bint Wahb was the mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca.
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B.
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid was a Jordanian princess and the first wife of King Hussein of Jordan, who briefly served as Queen consort in the 1950s.
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C.
Queen Zein al-Sharaf
Queen Zein al-Sharaf was a prominent Jordanian queen and political figure known for her influential role in shaping modern Jordan and supporting social and constitutional reforms in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Caliph Abu Bakr
Caliph Abu Bakr was the first successor to the Prophet Muhammad and an early leader of the Muslim community who played a crucial role in preserving and consolidating Islam after Muhammad’s death.
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E.
Muhammad
Muhammad is the 7th-century Arab religious, political, and social leader regarded by Muslims as the final prophet and messenger of God in Islam.
- 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: Khadijah bint Khuwaylid Target entity description: Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was a wealthy and respected Meccan businesswoman who became the first person to embrace Islam and a key supporter of the Prophet Muhammad.
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A.
Aminah bint Wahb
Aminah bint Wahb was the mother of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and a member of the Quraysh tribe in Mecca.
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B.
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid
Dina bint Abdul-Hamid was a Jordanian princess and the first wife of King Hussein of Jordan, who briefly served as Queen consort in the 1950s.
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C.
Queen Zein al-Sharaf
Queen Zein al-Sharaf was a prominent Jordanian queen and political figure known for her influential role in shaping modern Jordan and supporting social and constitutional reforms in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Caliph Abu Bakr
Caliph Abu Bakr was the first successor to the Prophet Muhammad and an early leader of the Muslim community who played a crucial role in preserving and consolidating Islam after Muhammad’s death.
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E.
Muhammad
Muhammad is the 7th-century Arab religious, political, and social leader regarded by Muslims as the final prophet and messenger of God in Islam.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim
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businesswoman ⓘ historical figure ⓘ wife of Muhammad ⓘ |
| ageAtMarriageToMuhammad | approximately 40 years ⓘ |
| ageDifferenceWithMuhammad | older than Muhammad ⓘ |
| ArabicName |
خديجة بنت خويلد
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linked to:
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
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| burialPlace | cemetery of al-Hajun in Mecca ⓘ |
| businessActivity | caravan trade ⓘ |
| child |
Abdullah ibn Muhammad
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Fatimah bint Muhammad ⓘ Qasim ibn Muhammad ⓘ Ruqayyah bint Muhammad ⓘ Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad ⓘ Zaynab bint Muhammad ⓘ |
| clan | Banu Asad ⓘ |
| commemoratedIn | Islamic tradition ⓘ |
| employed | Muhammad as a trade agent before marriage ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Arab ⓘ |
| father | Khuwaylid ibn Asad ⓘ |
| fullName |
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid ibn Asad
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linked to:
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName |
Khadijah
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linked to:
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
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| honorific |
Mother of the Believers (Umm al-Mu'minin)
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linked to:
Sawda bint Zamʿa
Sayyidat Nisa al-Jannah ⓘ |
| householdRole | first matriarch of the household of Muhammad ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being a wealthy Meccan merchant
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being the first person to embrace Islam ⓘ supporting the Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| lifePeriod |
early Islamic period
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pre-Islamic Arabia ⓘ |
| maritalStatusBeforeMuhammad | widow ⓘ |
| marriageOrderToMuhammad | first wife ⓘ |
| mother | Fatimah bint Za'idah ⓘ |
| occupation |
businesswoman
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merchant ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mecca ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mecca ⓘ |
| precededBy | pre-Islamic monotheist tendencies in Mecca ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousStatus | first believer in Muhammad’s prophethood ⓘ |
| residence | Mecca ⓘ |
| spouse | Muhammad ⓘ |
| supported |
Muhammad’s prophetic mission emotionally
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Muhammad’s prophetic mission financially ⓘ early Muslim community in Mecca ⓘ |
| title | Mother of the Believers ⓘ |
| 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: Khadijah bint Khuwaylid Description of subject: Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was a wealthy and respected Meccan businesswoman who became the first person to embrace Islam and a key supporter of the Prophet Muhammad.
Referenced by (65)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Az-Zubayr ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib
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Khadīja bint Khuwaylid (by marriage ties through Muhammad)
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Asiya wife of Pharaoh
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