Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani
E186489
Hanbali jurist
Islamic scholar
Muslim theologian
Sufi saint
Sunni Muslim
founder of a Sufi order
jurist
Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani was a prominent 12th-century Islamic scholar, jurist, and Sufi saint regarded as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani canonical | 5 |
| Abdul Qadir al-Gilani | 3 |
| Abdul-Qadir Gilani | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1386814 — 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: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani Context triple: [Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, alsoKnownAs, Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani]
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A.
Mulla Sadra
Mulla Sadra was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher best known for founding the Transcendent Theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya), which synthesized peripatetic, illuminationist, and mystical thought into a profound metaphysical system centered on the primacy of existence.
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B.
Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq
Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and Sufi master best known as one of the principal spiritual teachers of Jalal al-Din Rumi.
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C.
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.
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D.
Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah was a prominent 14th-century Islamic scholar, jurist, and theologian known for his extensive writings on Islamic law, creed, spirituality, and reform.
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E.
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah was a medieval Sunni Muslim theologian, jurist, and reformer known for his rigorous traditionalism and lasting influence on later Islamic thought and movements.
- 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: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani Target entity description: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani was a prominent 12th-century Islamic scholar, jurist, and Sufi saint regarded as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order.
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A.
Mulla Sadra
Mulla Sadra was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher best known for founding the Transcendent Theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya), which synthesized peripatetic, illuminationist, and mystical thought into a profound metaphysical system centered on the primacy of existence.
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B.
Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq
Burhan al-Din Muhaqqiq was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and Sufi master best known as one of the principal spiritual teachers of Jalal al-Din Rumi.
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C.
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.
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D.
Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah was a prominent 14th-century Islamic scholar, jurist, and theologian known for his extensive writings on Islamic law, creed, spirituality, and reform.
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E.
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah was a medieval Sunni Muslim theologian, jurist, and reformer known for his rigorous traditionalism and lasting influence on later Islamic thought and movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani Description of subject: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani was a prominent 12th-century Islamic scholar, jurist, and Sufi saint regarded as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
linked to: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani
linked to: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani
linked to: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani
linked to: Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani