Muhammad ibn Khairun
E573531
Muhammad ibn Khairun was a 9th-century Muslim patron known for commissioning the historic Mosque of the Three Doors in Kairouan, Tunisia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Muhammad ibn Khairun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5836404 — 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: Muhammad ibn Khairun Context triple: [Mosque of the Three Doors, foundedBy, Muhammad ibn Khairun]
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A.
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Muhammad al-Shaybani was an influential early Islamic jurist and student of Abu Hanifa who played a key role in systematizing and transmitting Hanafi jurisprudence.
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B.
Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Ahmad ibn Muhammad was an Aghlabid emir who ruled Ifriqiya and is remembered for consolidating the dynasty’s power in North Africa and supporting its Mediterranean expansion.
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C.
Ali ibn Buya
Ali ibn Buya was the 10th-century Iranian military leader who established the Buyid dynasty and became a dominant power in the Abbasid Caliphate.
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D.
Junayd of Baghdad
Junayd of Baghdad was a pivotal 9th-century Sufi master known for articulating a sober, disciplined form of Islamic mysticism that deeply shaped later Sufi thought and practice.
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E.
Qasim ibn Muhammad
Qasim ibn Muhammad was the eldest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who died in childhood in 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: Muhammad ibn Khairun Target entity description: Muhammad ibn Khairun was a 9th-century Muslim patron known for commissioning the historic Mosque of the Three Doors in Kairouan, Tunisia.
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A.
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Muhammad al-Shaybani was an influential early Islamic jurist and student of Abu Hanifa who played a key role in systematizing and transmitting Hanafi jurisprudence.
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B.
Ahmad ibn Muhammad
Ahmad ibn Muhammad was an Aghlabid emir who ruled Ifriqiya and is remembered for consolidating the dynasty’s power in North Africa and supporting its Mediterranean expansion.
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C.
Ali ibn Buya
Ali ibn Buya was the 10th-century Iranian military leader who established the Buyid dynasty and became a dominant power in the Abbasid Caliphate.
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D.
Junayd of Baghdad
Junayd of Baghdad was a pivotal 9th-century Sufi master known for articulating a sober, disciplined form of Islamic mysticism that deeply shaped later Sufi thought and practice.
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E.
Qasim ibn Muhammad
Qasim ibn Muhammad was the eldest son of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who died in childhood in Mecca.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim patron
ⓘ
historical person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Kairouan
ⓘ
Mosque of the Three Doors ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 9th century ⓘ |
| culturalContext | Islamic architecture ⓘ |
| historicalEra |
Abbasid period
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linked to:
Abbasid Caliphate
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| knownFor | commissioning the Mosque of the Three Doors ⓘ |
| notableWorkCommissioned | Mosque of the Three Doors ⓘ |
| patronOf | Mosque of the Three Doors ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Ifriqiya
ⓘ
linked to:
North Africa
Kairouan ⓘ present-day Tunisia ⓘ |
| region | North Africa ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
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: Muhammad ibn Khairun Description of subject: Muhammad ibn Khairun was a 9th-century Muslim patron known for commissioning the historic Mosque of the Three Doors in Kairouan, Tunisia.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.