Ibn al-Sitri
E814316
Ibn al-Sitri, also known as Ali ibn Hilal, was a renowned medieval Islamic calligrapher celebrated for refining and popularizing the naskh script.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ibn al-Sitri canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9639654 — 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 al-Sitri Context triple: [Ali ibn Hilal, alsoKnownAs, Ibn al-Sitri]
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A.
Ibn al-Jazzar
Ibn al-Jazzar was a 10th-century Tunisian physician and medical writer renowned for his influential works on practical medicine, pediatrics, and travel health that shaped Islamic and later European medical traditions.
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B.
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh was a prominent medieval Islamic scholar and jurist associated with the renowned Nizamiyya of Baghdad.
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C.
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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D.
Ibn Sabin
Ibn Sabin was a 13th-century Andalusian Sufi philosopher and mystic known for his radical metaphysical ideas and contributions to Islamic philosophical thought.
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E.
Ibn al-Qasim
Ibn al-Qasim was a prominent early Maliki jurist and key transmitter of Imam Malik’s legal opinions, whose teachings greatly shaped the development of Maliki Islamic jurisprudence.
- 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 al-Sitri Target entity description: Ibn al-Sitri, also known as Ali ibn Hilal, was a renowned medieval Islamic calligrapher celebrated for refining and popularizing the naskh script.
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A.
Ibn al-Jazzar
Ibn al-Jazzar was a 10th-century Tunisian physician and medical writer renowned for his influential works on practical medicine, pediatrics, and travel health that shaped Islamic and later European medical traditions.
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B.
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh
Abu Nasr ibn al-Sabbagh was a prominent medieval Islamic scholar and jurist associated with the renowned Nizamiyya of Baghdad.
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C.
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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D.
Ibn Sabin
Ibn Sabin was a 13th-century Andalusian Sufi philosopher and mystic known for his radical metaphysical ideas and contributions to Islamic philosophical thought.
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E.
Ibn al-Qasim
Ibn al-Qasim was a prominent early Maliki jurist and key transmitter of Imam Malik’s legal opinions, whose teachings greatly shaped the development of Maliki Islamic jurisprudence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic calligrapher
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calligrapher ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Ali ibn Hilal ⓘ |
| culture | Islamic civilization ⓘ |
| era | medieval period ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic art
ⓘ
calligraphy ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| name | Ibn al-Sitri ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing the naskh script
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refining the naskh script ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| scriptSpecialization |
naskh
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linked to:
Naskh script
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| writingSystem | Arabic script ⓘ |
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 al-Sitri Description of subject: Ibn al-Sitri, also known as Ali ibn Hilal, was a renowned medieval Islamic calligrapher celebrated for refining and popularizing the naskh script.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.