Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi
E141644
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known as Saadi, was a renowned 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer celebrated for his works "Bustan" and "Gulistan."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi canonical | 1 |
| Mushrif al-Din Muslih ibn Abdallah Saadi Shirazi | 1 |
| Mushrif al-Din Saadi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1137314 — 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: Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi Context triple: [Saadi, fullName, Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi]
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
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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D.
Jalāl al-Dīn
Jalāl al-Dīn is the given name of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic widely known in the West as Rumi.
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E.
Shams-ud-Dīn
Shams-ud-Dīn is the formal given name of the famed 14th-century Persian lyric poet Hafez of Shiraz.
- 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: Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi Target entity description: Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known as Saadi, was a renowned 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer celebrated for his works "Bustan" and "Gulistan."
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A.
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.
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B.
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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C.
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
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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D.
Jalāl al-Dīn
Jalāl al-Dīn is the given name of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic widely known in the West as Rumi.
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E.
Shams-ud-Dīn
Shams-ud-Dīn is the formal given name of the famed 14th-century Persian lyric poet Hafez of Shiraz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Persian poet
ⓘ
person ⓘ poet ⓘ prose writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mushrif al-Din Saadi
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Saadi ⓘ Saadi Shirazi ⓘ
linked to:
Saadi
|
| authorOf |
Bustan
ⓘ
Gulistan ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Fars
ⓘ
linked to:
Fars Province
Persia ⓘ Shiraz ⓘ
linked to:
Shiraz, Iran
|
| centuryActive | 13th century ⓘ |
| citizenship | Persia ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Mausoleum of Saadi in Shiraz ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Persia ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Nizamiyya of Baghdad ⓘ |
| era | Medieval period ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Persian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Sufism
ⓘ
ethics ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
poetry
ⓘ
prose ⓘ |
| hasPart |
didactic stories
ⓘ
moral anecdotes ⓘ |
| influenced |
Ottoman literature
ⓘ
linked to:
Turkish literature
Persian literature ⓘ South Asian literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Sufism ⓘ |
| language | Persian ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
ethics
ⓘ
humanism ⓘ morality ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| movement | Persian classical literature ⓘ |
| nativeNameLanguage | fa ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bustan
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Gulistan ⓘ |
| occupation |
moralist
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poet ⓘ prose writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
aphoristic
ⓘ
didactic ⓘ moralistic ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi Description of subject: Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known as Saadi, was a renowned 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer celebrated for his works "Bustan" and "Gulistan."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi
linked to: Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi