Averroes
E87253
Averroes was a 12th-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, jurist, and physician renowned for his extensive commentaries on Aristotle and his major influence on both Islamic and Western medieval thought.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Averroes canonical | 27 |
| Ibn Rushd | 17 |
| Ibn Rushd (Averroes) | 3 |
| Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd | 2 |
| Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd | 1 |
| Averroës | 1 |
| Ibn Rushd al-Jadd (Averroes the Elder) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T650861 — 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.
Target entity: Averroes Context triple: [Guide for the Perplexed, philosophicalInfluence, Averroes]
-
A.
Al-Farabi
Al-Farabi was a pioneering 10th-century Islamic philosopher and polymath, often called the “Second Teacher” after Aristotle, whose works profoundly shaped medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
-
B.
Albert the Great
Albert the Great was a 13th-century Dominican scholar, philosopher, and bishop renowned for his comprehensive knowledge of natural science and theology and as the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Avicenna
Avicenna was an influential Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age, best known for his works in metaphysics and medicine, especially "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine."
-
E.
Maimonides
Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar, and physician whose works, especially "The Guide for the Perplexed," profoundly shaped Jewish thought and influenced later rationalist philosophers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Averroes Target entity description: Averroes was a 12th-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, jurist, and physician renowned for his extensive commentaries on Aristotle and his major influence on both Islamic and Western medieval thought.
-
A.
Al-Farabi
Al-Farabi was a pioneering 10th-century Islamic philosopher and polymath, often called the “Second Teacher” after Aristotle, whose works profoundly shaped medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
-
B.
Albert the Great
Albert the Great was a 13th-century Dominican scholar, philosopher, and bishop renowned for his comprehensive knowledge of natural science and theology and as the teacher of Thomas Aquinas.
-
C.
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.
-
D.
Avicenna
Avicenna was an influential Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age, best known for his works in metaphysics and medicine, especially "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine."
-
E.
Maimonides
Maimonides was a medieval Jewish philosopher, legal scholar, and physician whose works, especially "The Guide for the Perplexed," profoundly shaped Jewish thought and influenced later rationalist philosophers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (66)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Andalusian philosopher
ⓘ
Aristotelian commentator ⓘ Islamic philosopher ⓘ human ⓘ jurist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physician ⓘ polymath ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Aben Rushd
ⓘ
Averroës ⓘ
linked to:
Averroes
Ibn Rushd ⓘ
linked to:
Averroes
|
| birthName |
Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Rushd
ⓘ
linked to:
Averroes
|
| burialPlace |
Córdoba
ⓘ
linked to:
Cordoba (historical)
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Almohad Caliphate
ⓘ
linked to:
Almohad dynasty
|
| dateOfBirth | 1126 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1198 ⓘ |
| era |
Islamic Golden Age
ⓘ
Medieval philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arab
ⓘ
linked to:
Arabs
|
| familyBackground | family of Maliki jurists ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
ⓘ
astronomy ⓘ logic ⓘ medicine ⓘ philosophy ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| impact |
central figure in transmission of Aristotelian philosophy to Latin Europe
ⓘ
major influence on Islamic philosophy ⓘ major influence on Western medieval thought ⓘ |
| influenced |
Jewish medieval philosophers
ⓘ
Latin Averroists ⓘ Siger of Brabant ⓘ Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
linked to:
St. Thomas Aquinas
Western scholasticism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Al-Fārābī
ⓘ
linked to:
Al-Farabi
Aristotle ⓘ Ibn Bājja ⓘ
linked to:
Ibn Bajjah
Ibn Sīnā ⓘ
linked to:
Avicenna
|
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| legalSchool | Maliki ⓘ |
| movement |
Aristotelianism
ⓘ
Averroism ⓘ
linked to:
Aristotelianism
Peripatetic philosophy ⓘ
linked to:
Peripatetic school
|
| notableIdea |
doctrine of double truth (ascribed in Latin tradition)
ⓘ
harmony of philosophy and revealed religion ⓘ unity of the intellect ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bidāyat al-Mujtahid wa Nihāyat al-Muqtaṣid
ⓘ
linked to:
al-Mughni by Ibn Qudamah
Faṣl al-Maqāl ⓘ Kitāb al-Kashf ʿan Manāhij al-Adilla ⓘ Long Commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
linked to:
Commentaries on Aristotle
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ Short Commentaries on Aristotle ⓘ
linked to:
Middle Commentaries on Aristotle
Tahāfut al-Tahāfut ⓘ
linked to:
Tahafut al-Falasifa
|
| occupation |
court physician
ⓘ
qadi ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Aristotelianism ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Al-Andalus
ⓘ
linked to:
Andalusia
Córdoba ⓘ
linked to:
Cordoba (historical)
Islamic Spain ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Almohad Caliphate
ⓘ
linked to:
Almohad dynasty
Marrakesh ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief qadi of Córdoba
ⓘ
physician to the Almohad caliphs ⓘ |
| region |
Al-Andalus
ⓘ
linked to:
Andalusia
|
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| workedOn | commentaries on nearly all works of Aristotle then available in Arabic ⓘ |
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.
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.
Subject: Averroes Description of subject: Averroes was a 12th-century Andalusian Muslim philosopher, jurist, and physician renowned for his extensive commentaries on Aristotle and his major influence on both Islamic and Western medieval thought.
Referenced by (52)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.