Ibn Kathir
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Ibn Kathir was a 14th-century Sunni Muslim scholar, historian, and Qur’anic exegete best known for his influential tafsir (Qur’an commentary) and historical works.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ibn Kathir canonical | 6 |
| Ismaʿil ibn ʿUmar ibn Kathir | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2981079 — 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: Ibn Kathir Context triple: [Quran 17:1, commentedOnBy, Ibn Kathir]
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A.
Ibn Abd al-Barr
Ibn Abd al-Barr was an eminent 11th-century Andalusian Maliki jurist, hadith scholar, and historian known for his influential works on Islamic law and biographical literature.
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B.
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami was a prominent 16th-century Sunni jurist and theologian renowned for his influential legal writings and fatwas within the Shafi'i school of Islamic law.
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C.
Al-Nawawi
Al-Nawawi was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and jurist renowned for his works in hadith, jurisprudence, and ethics, including "Riyadh al-Salihin" and "Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya."
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D.
al-Qurtubi
Al-Qurtubi was a prominent 13th-century Andalusian Islamic scholar best known for his influential Qur’anic exegesis and works in hadith and jurisprudence.
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E.
Al-Suyuti
Al-Suyuti was a prolific 15th-century Egyptian Sunni scholar renowned for his extensive works in Qur’anic exegesis, Hadith, jurisprudence, and Arabic literature.
- 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: Ibn Kathir Target entity description: Ibn Kathir was a 14th-century Sunni Muslim scholar, historian, and Qur’anic exegete best known for his influential tafsir (Qur’an commentary) and historical works.
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A.
Ibn Abd al-Barr
Ibn Abd al-Barr was an eminent 11th-century Andalusian Maliki jurist, hadith scholar, and historian known for his influential works on Islamic law and biographical literature.
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B.
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
Ibn Hajar al-Haytami was a prominent 16th-century Sunni jurist and theologian renowned for his influential legal writings and fatwas within the Shafi'i school of Islamic law.
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C.
Al-Nawawi
Al-Nawawi was a prominent 13th-century Islamic scholar and jurist renowned for his works in hadith, jurisprudence, and ethics, including "Riyadh al-Salihin" and "Al-Arba'in al-Nawawiyya."
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D.
al-Qurtubi
Al-Qurtubi was a prominent 13th-century Andalusian Islamic scholar best known for his influential Qur’anic exegesis and works in hadith and jurisprudence.
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E.
Al-Suyuti
Al-Suyuti was a prolific 15th-century Egyptian Sunni scholar renowned for his extensive works in Qur’anic exegesis, Hadith, jurisprudence, and Arabic literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Ibn Kathir Description of subject: Ibn Kathir was a 14th-century Sunni Muslim scholar, historian, and Qur’anic exegete best known for his influential tafsir (Qur’an commentary) and historical works.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ibn Kathir