Ahmad Dahlan
E605404
Indonesian Islamic leader
Indonesian religious leader
Islamic organization
Islamic reformer
founder of religious organization
mass organization
person
Ahmad Dahlan was an influential Indonesian Islamic reformer and founder of Muhammadiyah who played a major role in shaping modern Indonesian nationalism through religious and educational renewal.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ahmad Dahlan canonical | 4 |
| K.H. Ahmad Dahlan | 1 |
| KH Ahmad Dahlan | 1 |
| Kyai Haji Ahmad Dahlan | 1 |
| Nyai Ahmad Dahlan | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6549224 — 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: Ahmad Dahlan Context triple: [Indonesian nationalism, keyFigure, Ahmad Dahlan]
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A.
Sutan Ibrahim
Sutan Ibrahim, better known by his revolutionary alias Tan Malaka, was an influential Indonesian Marxist thinker, independence activist, and national hero.
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B.
Teuku Umar
Teuku Umar was a prominent Acehnese guerrilla leader who played a key role in resisting Dutch colonial forces during the Aceh War in Indonesia.
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C.
Haji Agus Salim
Haji Agus Salim was a prominent Indonesian nationalist leader, diplomat, and intellectual from the Minangkabau community who played a key role in the country’s struggle for independence and early foreign policy.
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D.
Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah
Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, better known as Buya Hamka, was a prominent Indonesian Islamic scholar, novelist, and public intellectual whose works significantly shaped modern Indonesian literature and Islamic thought.
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E.
Amir Sjarifuddin
Amir Sjarifuddin was an Indonesian nationalist leader, socialist politician, and former prime minister who played a key role in the early years of Indonesia’s struggle for independence.
- 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: Ahmad Dahlan Target entity description: Ahmad Dahlan was an influential Indonesian Islamic reformer and founder of Muhammadiyah who played a major role in shaping modern Indonesian nationalism through religious and educational renewal.
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A.
Sutan Ibrahim
Sutan Ibrahim, better known by his revolutionary alias Tan Malaka, was an influential Indonesian Marxist thinker, independence activist, and national hero.
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B.
Teuku Umar
Teuku Umar was a prominent Acehnese guerrilla leader who played a key role in resisting Dutch colonial forces during the Aceh War in Indonesia.
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C.
Haji Agus Salim
Haji Agus Salim was a prominent Indonesian nationalist leader, diplomat, and intellectual from the Minangkabau community who played a key role in the country’s struggle for independence and early foreign policy.
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D.
Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah
Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, better known as Buya Hamka, was a prominent Indonesian Islamic scholar, novelist, and public intellectual whose works significantly shaped modern Indonesian literature and Islamic thought.
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E.
Amir Sjarifuddin
Amir Sjarifuddin was an Indonesian nationalist leader, socialist politician, and former prime minister who played a key role in the early years of Indonesia’s struggle for independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Indonesian Islamic leader
ⓘ
Indonesian religious leader ⓘ Islamic organization ⓘ Islamic reformer ⓘ founder of religious organization ⓘ mass organization ⓘ person ⓘ |
| advocated |
modern schooling for Muslims
ⓘ
social services as part of Islamic practice ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
K.H. Ahmad Dahlan
ⓘ
linked to:
Ahmad Dahlan
Kyai Haji Ahmad Dahlan ⓘ
linked to:
Ahmad Dahlan
Nyai Ahmad Dahlan ⓘ
linked to:
Ahmad Dahlan
|
| birthDate | 1868-08-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Dutch East Indies
ⓘ
Java ⓘ Yogyakarta ⓘ |
| country | Indonesia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Dutch East Indies ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1923-02-23 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Yogyakarta ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Mecca
ⓘ
Yogyakarta traditional Islamic schools ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Javanese people ⓘ |
| founded | Muhammadiyah ⓘ |
| fullName | Muhammad Darwis ⓘ |
| hasHonorific |
Kyai Haji
ⓘ
linked to:
Hasyim Asy'ari
|
| influenced |
Indonesian Islamic movements
ⓘ
modern Indonesian nationalism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding Muhammadiyah in Yogyakarta
ⓘ
religious and educational renewal in Indonesia ⓘ social welfare activities through Muhammadiyah ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
ⓘ
Indonesian ⓘ Javanese ⓘ |
| movement |
Islamic modernism
ⓘ
Islamic reformism ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
integration of Islamic teachings with modern education
ⓘ
purification of Islamic practice based on Qur’an and Hadith ⓘ |
| notableWork | reform of Islamic education in Indonesia ⓘ |
| occupation |
educator
ⓘ
preacher ⓘ ulama ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Yogyakarta ⓘ |
| positionHeld | leader of Muhammadiyah ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| spouse | Siti Walidah ⓘ |
| studied |
Hadith
ⓘ
Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ Qur’anic exegesis ⓘ |
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: Ahmad Dahlan Description of subject: Ahmad Dahlan was an influential Indonesian Islamic reformer and founder of Muhammadiyah who played a major role in shaping modern Indonesian nationalism through religious and educational renewal.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ahmad Dahlan
linked to: Ahmad Dahlan
linked to: Ahmad Dahlan
subject linked to:
Ahmad Dahlan
linked to: Ahmad Dahlan