al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
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al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad canonical | 11 |
| Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad | 1 |
| al‑Sayyid Ahmad Abd al‑Jawad | 1 |
| contrasts with his father al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1086255 — 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-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad Context triple: [The Cairo Trilogy, centralCharacter, al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad]
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Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
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Hamzah bin Hussein
Hamzah bin Hussein is a Jordanian prince, the half-brother of King Abdullah II and former crown prince of Jordan.
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Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani was a prominent 12th‑century Islamic scholar and mystic revered as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and a major spiritual figure in Sunni Islam.
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D.
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, better known as Saadia Gaon, was a prominent 10th-century Jewish philosopher, exegete, and Gaon of the Sura academy, renowned for his works on Jewish law, grammar, and rational theology.
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Ibn Muqla
Ibn Muqla was a 10th-century Abbasid vizier and master calligrapher renowned for codifying the proportional rules that shaped classical Arabic scripts, especially Naskh.
- 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-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad Target entity description: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
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A.
Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
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B.
Hamzah bin Hussein
Hamzah bin Hussein is a Jordanian prince, the half-brother of King Abdullah II and former crown prince of Jordan.
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C.
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani was a prominent 12th‑century Islamic scholar and mystic revered as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and a major spiritual figure in Sunni Islam.
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D.
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī
Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, better known as Saadia Gaon, was a prominent 10th-century Jewish philosopher, exegete, and Gaon of the Sura academy, renowned for his works on Jewish law, grammar, and rational theology.
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E.
Ibn Muqla
Ibn Muqla was a 10th-century Abbasid vizier and master calligrapher renowned for codifying the proportional rules that shaped classical Arabic scripts, especially Naskh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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literary character ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
Palace Walk
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Palace of Desire ⓘ Sugar Street ⓘ The Cairo Trilogy ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family life
ⓘ
moral hypocrisy ⓘ patriarchy ⓘ social change in Egypt ⓘ |
| centralTo | family dynamics in The Cairo Trilogy ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
authoritarian
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charismatic ⓘ domineering ⓘ hypocritical ⓘ pleasure-seeking ⓘ sensual ⓘ traditionalist ⓘ |
| child |
Aisha
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Fahmy ⓘ Kamal ⓘ Khadija ⓘ Yasin ⓘ |
| createdBy | Naguib Mahfouz ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Palace Walk ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | Arabic ⓘ |
| literaryEra | modern Arabic literature ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | anchors the multi-generational family saga in The Cairo Trilogy ⓘ |
| nationalityInFiction | Egyptian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading a double life between home and social pleasures
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strict control over his household ⓘ |
| occupation | merchant ⓘ |
| privatePersona | hedonistic frequenter of cafes and entertainment houses ⓘ |
| publicPersona | pious family man ⓘ |
| residence |
Bayn al-Qasrayn neighborhood
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Cairo ⓘ |
| roleInWork | patriarch of the Abd al-Jawad family ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | early 20th-century Egypt ⓘ |
| spouse | Amina ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
patriarchal authority in traditional Egyptian society
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tension between tradition and modernity ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad Description of subject: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
linked to: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
linked to: al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad