Yahya ibn Abi Mansur
E284495
9th-century astronomer
9th-century mathematician
Abbasid-era scholar
Persian person
astronomer
mathematician
Yahya ibn Abi Mansur was a prominent 9th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician of the Abbasid era, known for his influential work at the Baghdad court and contributions to Islamic astronomy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yahya ibn Abi Mansur canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2186780 — 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: Yahya ibn Abi Mansur Context triple: [House of Wisdom, notableScholar, Yahya ibn Abi Mansur]
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A.
Ibn al-Salah
Ibn al-Salah was a prominent 13th-century Kurdish Muslim hadith scholar and jurist best known for his foundational work "Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah" on hadith sciences.
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B.
Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab was an influential 10th–11th century Persian calligrapher renowned for refining and codifying classical Arabic scripts, particularly in Qur’anic manuscripts.
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C.
Ibn ‘Ajiba
Ibn ‘Ajiba was an 18th–19th century Moroccan Sufi scholar, Qur’anic commentator, and spiritual master known for integrating Shadhili mystical teachings with rigorous Islamic scholarship.
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D.
Ibn al-Fuwati
Ibn al-Fuwati was a 13th-century Muslim historian, librarian, and biographer known for his detailed accounts of the Mongol era and scholarly life in Baghdad.
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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
- 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: Yahya ibn Abi Mansur Target entity description: Yahya ibn Abi Mansur was a prominent 9th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician of the Abbasid era, known for his influential work at the Baghdad court and contributions to Islamic astronomy.
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A.
Ibn al-Salah
Ibn al-Salah was a prominent 13th-century Kurdish Muslim hadith scholar and jurist best known for his foundational work "Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah" on hadith sciences.
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B.
Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab was an influential 10th–11th century Persian calligrapher renowned for refining and codifying classical Arabic scripts, particularly in Qur’anic manuscripts.
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C.
Ibn ‘Ajiba
Ibn ‘Ajiba was an 18th–19th century Moroccan Sufi scholar, Qur’anic commentator, and spiritual master known for integrating Shadhili mystical teachings with rigorous Islamic scholarship.
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D.
Ibn al-Fuwati
Ibn al-Fuwati was a 13th-century Muslim historian, librarian, and biographer known for his detailed accounts of the Mongol era and scholarly life in Baghdad.
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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 (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
9th-century astronomer
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9th-century mathematician ⓘ Abbasid-era scholar ⓘ Persian person ⓘ astronomer ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 9th century ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| culture | Islamic civilization ⓘ |
| employer |
Abbasid court
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linked to:
court of the Abbasid caliphs
|
| era |
Abbasid era
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linked to:
Abbasid Caliphate
|
| ethnicOrigin | Persian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astronomy
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mathematics ⓘ |
| influenced | later Islamic astronomers ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
| movement | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to Islamic astronomy
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work at the Baghdad court ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronomer
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mathematician ⓘ |
| partOf | Islamic astronomical tradition ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Baghdad ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Baghdad ⓘ |
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: Yahya ibn Abi Mansur Description of subject: Yahya ibn Abi Mansur was a prominent 9th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician of the Abbasid era, known for his influential work at the Baghdad court and contributions to Islamic astronomy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.