Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (Mir-i-Arab)
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Sheikh Abdullah Yamani, known as Mir-i-Arab, was a prominent 16th-century Islamic scholar and Sufi sheikh whose influence in Central Asia led to the famed Mir-i-Arab Madrasa in Bukhara being named in his honor.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (Mir-i-Arab) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12831046 — 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: Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (Mir-i-Arab) Context triple: [Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, namedAfter, Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (Mir-i-Arab)]
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A.
Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi
Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi is a prominent Iraqi military general known for leading elite counterterrorism forces in key campaigns against ISIS.
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B.
Sheikh Saad
Sheikh Saad is a Palestinian village located just southeast of Jerusalem in the Jerusalem Governorate of the West Bank.
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C.
Abdulaziz Al ash-Sheikh
Abdulaziz Al ash-Sheikh is the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia and a leading Sunni religious scholar who heads the country’s Council of Senior Scholars.
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D.
Sheikh Mohammed Awwad
Sheikh Mohammed Awwad is an Islamic scholar and community leader best known for establishing the Islamic University of Gaza, a major center of higher education in the Gaza Strip.
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E.
Al-e-Ahmad
Al-e-Ahmad is the family name of Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, a prominent 20th-century Iranian writer, social critic, and intellectual.
- 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: Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (Mir-i-Arab) Target entity description: Sheikh Abdullah Yamani, known as Mir-i-Arab, was a prominent 16th-century Islamic scholar and Sufi sheikh whose influence in Central Asia led to the famed Mir-i-Arab Madrasa in Bukhara being named in his honor.
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A.
Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi
Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi is a prominent Iraqi military general known for leading elite counterterrorism forces in key campaigns against ISIS.
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B.
Sheikh Saad
Sheikh Saad is a Palestinian village located just southeast of Jerusalem in the Jerusalem Governorate of the West Bank.
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C.
Abdulaziz Al ash-Sheikh
Abdulaziz Al ash-Sheikh is the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia and a leading Sunni religious scholar who heads the country’s Council of Senior Scholars.
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D.
Sheikh Mohammed Awwad
Sheikh Mohammed Awwad is an Islamic scholar and community leader best known for establishing the Islamic University of Gaza, a major center of higher education in the Gaza Strip.
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E.
Al-e-Ahmad
Al-e-Ahmad is the family name of Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, a prominent 20th-century Iranian writer, social critic, and intellectual.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic scholar
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Sufi sheikh ⓘ madrasa ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Bukhara
NERFINISHED
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Mir-i-Arab Madrasa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 16th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | Mir-i-Arab Madrasa in Bukhara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Uzbekistan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
ⓘ
Islamic theology ⓘ Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEthnicOrGeographicOrigin | Yemeni ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Sheikh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificName | Mir-i-Arab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | Islamic education in Central Asia ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Bukhara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sheikh Abdullah Yamani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
having the Mir-i-Arab Madrasa named in his honor
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spiritual and scholarly influence in Bukhara ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence | Central Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
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Islam ⓘ |
| tradition | Sunni Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sheikh Abdullah Yamani (Mir-i-Arab) Description of subject: Sheikh Abdullah Yamani, known as Mir-i-Arab, was a prominent 16th-century Islamic scholar and Sufi sheikh whose influence in Central Asia led to the famed Mir-i-Arab Madrasa in Bukhara being named in his honor.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.