al-Hadi
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Al-Hadi was an Abbasid caliph of the late 8th century, known for his brief reign and for being the elder brother and immediate predecessor of Harun al-Rashid.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| al-Hadi canonical | 14 |
| Al-Hadi | 2 |
| Caliph al-Hadi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2315231 — 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-Hadi Context triple: [Harun al-Rashid, predecessor, al-Hadi]
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A.
Ali al-Hadi
Ali al-Hadi was the tenth Shia Imam, revered as a key religious and spiritual authority whose teachings significantly shaped Twelver Shia doctrine.
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B.
Abd al-Hadi
Abd al-Hadi is an Arabic family name historically associated with notable political and social figures in the Middle East.
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C.
ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh
ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh was the first Fatimid caliph and Isma'ili imam who established a Shi'a caliphate in North Africa in the early 10th century.
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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.
ibn al-Mahdi
Ibn al-Mahdi was a member of the Abbasid dynasty, known as a son of the caliph al-Mahdi and thus part of the immediate family circle of the famous caliph Harun al-Rashid.
- 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-Hadi Target entity description: Al-Hadi was an Abbasid caliph of the late 8th century, known for his brief reign and for being the elder brother and immediate predecessor of Harun al-Rashid.
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A.
Ali al-Hadi
Ali al-Hadi was the tenth Shia Imam, revered as a key religious and spiritual authority whose teachings significantly shaped Twelver Shia doctrine.
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B.
Abd al-Hadi
Abd al-Hadi is an Arabic family name historically associated with notable political and social figures in the Middle East.
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C.
ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh
ʿAbd Allāh al-Mahdī Billāh was the first Fatimid caliph and Isma'ili imam who established a Shi'a caliphate in North Africa in the early 10th century.
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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.
ibn al-Mahdi
Ibn al-Mahdi was a member of the Abbasid dynasty, known as a son of the caliph al-Mahdi and thus part of the immediate family circle of the famous caliph Harun al-Rashid.
- 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-Hadi Description of subject: Al-Hadi was an Abbasid caliph of the late 8th century, known for his brief reign and for being the elder brother and immediate predecessor of Harun al-Rashid.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.