Zaynab bint Jahsh
E29289
Zaynab bint Jahsh was a prominent early Muslim woman and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and charitable nature.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Zaynab bint Jahsh canonical | 20 |
| Zaynab bint Jahsh bint Ri’ab | 1 |
| ZaynabBintJahsh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212727 — 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: Zaynab bint Jahsh Context triple: [Muhammad, wife, Zaynab bint Jahsh]
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A.
Sawda bint Zamʿa
Sawda bint Zamʿa was one of the early wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety, generosity, and role among the first Muslim women in Medina.
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B.
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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C.
Hafsa bint Umar
Hafsa bint Umar was a prominent early Muslim woman, daughter of the second caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and for safeguarding an early written copy of the Qur’an.
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D.
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was a prominent early Islamic figure renowned as a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and a major transmitter of hadith and religious knowledge.
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E.
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
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.
- 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: Zaynab bint Jahsh Target entity description: Zaynab bint Jahsh was a prominent early Muslim woman and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and charitable nature.
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A.
Sawda bint Zamʿa
Sawda bint Zamʿa was one of the early wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety, generosity, and role among the first Muslim women in Medina.
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B.
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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C.
Hafsa bint Umar
Hafsa bint Umar was a prominent early Muslim woman, daughter of the second caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and for safeguarding an early written copy of the Qur’an.
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D.
Aisha bint Abi Bakr
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was a prominent early Islamic figure renowned as a wife of the Prophet Muhammad and a major transmitter of hadith and religious knowledge.
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E.
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Companion of Muhammad
ⓘ
Muslim woman ⓘ historical figure ⓘ wife of Muhammad ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | revelation concerning adoption laws in Islam ⓘ |
| clan | Banu Asad ibn Khuzayma ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Abu Bakr
ⓘ
linked to:
Caliph Abu Bakr
Ali ibn Abi Talib ⓘ Umar ibn al-Khattab ⓘ |
| distributedWealthTo |
needy
ⓘ
poor ⓘ |
| era | early Islamic period ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Arab ⓘ |
| father | Jahsh ibn Ri’ab ⓘ |
| fullName |
Zaynab bint Jahsh bint Ri’ab
ⓘ
linked to:
Zaynab bint Jahsh
|
| givenName |
Zaynab
ⓘ
linked to:
Zaynab bint Mazun
|
| honorific |
Umm al-Mu’minin
ⓘ
linked to:
Umm al-Mu'minin
|
| householdPractice | gave much of her income in charity ⓘ |
| knownFor |
charity
ⓘ
devotion to prayer ⓘ frequent fasting ⓘ generosity to the poor ⓘ piety ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| legalSignificance | her marriage to Muhammad affected Islamic rulings on adopted sons ⓘ |
| maritalStatusWithMuhammad | married ⓘ |
| maritalStatusWithZayd | divorced ⓘ |
| marriageToMuhammadArrangedBy |
Allah (according to Islamic belief)
ⓘ
linked to:
Allah
|
| marriageToMuhammadOccasion | after divorce from Zayd ibn Harithah ⓘ |
| marriageToMuhammadType | contracted by divine command ⓘ |
| maternalGrandfather |
Abd al-Muttalib ibn Hashim
ⓘ
linked to:
Abd al-Muttalib
|
| mentionedIn |
Quran 33:37
ⓘ
Quran 33:6 (by implication among the wives of the Prophet) ⓘ |
| migratedTo | Medina ⓘ |
| mother | Umayma bint Abd al-Muttalib ⓘ |
| performedHijra | yes ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mecca ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Hejaz ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| sourceOfIncome |
handicrafts
ⓘ
manual work ⓘ |
| spouse |
Muhammad
ⓘ
Zayd ibn Harithah ⓘ |
| statusInIslamicTradition |
exemplary in charity
ⓘ
respected ⓘ |
| 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: Zaynab bint Jahsh Description of subject: Zaynab bint Jahsh was a prominent early Muslim woman and one of the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, known for her piety and charitable nature.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Zaynab bint Jahsh
linked to: Zaynab bint Jahsh