Baha al-Din al-Amili
E1041870
Baha al-Din al-Amili was a prominent 16th–17th century Shia scholar, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who became a leading intellectual figure in Safavid Iran.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Baha al-Din al-Amili canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13447381 — 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: Baha al-Din al-Amili Context triple: [Jabal Amel, producedScholar, Baha al-Din al-Amili]
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A.
Badr al-Din al-Ayni
Badr al-Din al-Ayni was a prominent 15th-century Hanafi jurist, historian, and hadith scholar of the Mamluk era, known for his influential works in Islamic law and exegesis.
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B.
Fakhr al-Din
Fakhr al-Din is an honorific title meaning "Pride of the Religion," famously borne by the influential medieval Islamic theologian and philosopher Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.
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C.
Shihab al-Din
Shihab al-Din is an honorific title in the Islamic scholarly tradition meaning "Meteor of the Faith," often borne by distinguished religious scholars such as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami.
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D.
Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh
Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh was a prominent 13th-century Ayyubid military leader and statesman who played a key role in defending Egypt against the Seventh Crusade.
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E.
Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi
Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi was a prominent 14th-century Shafi'i jurist and scholar of Islamic law and Qur'anic sciences, known for his extensive and influential legal and exegetical writings.
- 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: Baha al-Din al-Amili Target entity description: Baha al-Din al-Amili was a prominent 16th–17th century Shia scholar, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who became a leading intellectual figure in Safavid Iran.
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A.
Badr al-Din al-Ayni
Badr al-Din al-Ayni was a prominent 15th-century Hanafi jurist, historian, and hadith scholar of the Mamluk era, known for his influential works in Islamic law and exegesis.
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B.
Fakhr al-Din
Fakhr al-Din is an honorific title meaning "Pride of the Religion," famously borne by the influential medieval Islamic theologian and philosopher Fakhr al-Din al-Razi.
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C.
Shihab al-Din
Shihab al-Din is an honorific title in the Islamic scholarly tradition meaning "Meteor of the Faith," often borne by distinguished religious scholars such as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami.
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D.
Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh
Fakhr al-Din ibn al-Shaykh was a prominent 13th-century Ayyubid military leader and statesman who played a key role in defending Egypt against the Seventh Crusade.
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E.
Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi
Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi was a prominent 14th-century Shafi'i jurist and scholar of Islamic law and Qur'anic sciences, known for his extensive and influential legal and exegetical writings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shia scholar
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architect ⓘ astronomer ⓘ jurist ⓘ mathematician ⓘ mystic ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Isfahan
NERFINISHED
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Safavid Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn al-ʿĀmilī
NERFINISHED
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Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī NERFINISHED ⓘ Shaykh Bahāʾī NERFINISHED ⓘ Sheikh Bahai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Isfahan school of philosophy
NERFINISHED
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Jabal Amil scholars NERFINISHED ⓘ Shah Abbas I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1547 ⓘ |
| bornIn |
Baalbek
NERFINISHED
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Jabal Amil region NERFINISHED ⓘ Lebanon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| century |
16th century
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17th century ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1621 ⓘ |
| denomination | Twelver Shia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
leading intellectual figure in Safavid Iran
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one of the foremost scholars of his time ⓘ polymath ⓘ |
| diedIn |
Isfahan
NERFINISHED
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Safavid Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Isfahan
NERFINISHED
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Jabal Amil scholarly circles NERFINISHED ⓘ Najaf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Safavid court
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shah Abbas I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
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Quranic exegesis ⓘ architecture ⓘ astronomy ⓘ hadith studies ⓘ logic ⓘ mathematics ⓘ mysticism ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
Mulla Sadra
NERFINISHED
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later Shia scholars ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Islamic Peripatetic philosophy
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Jabal Amil Shia tradition NERFINISHED ⓘ Sufi mysticism ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
| movement |
Safavid intellectual tradition
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School of Isfahan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Safavid Iranian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Jāmiʿ-i ʿAbbāsī
NERFINISHED
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Kholasat al-Hisab NERFINISHED ⓘ Khulāṣat al-ḥisāb NERFINISHED ⓘ Miftāḥ al-falāḥ NERFINISHED ⓘ Nān u Ḥalwā NERFINISHED ⓘ Shīr u Shakkar NERFINISHED ⓘ Tashrīḥ al-aflāk NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Fawāʾid al-Ṣamadīyah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
court scholar
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religious authority ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Shaykh al-Islam of Isfahan
NERFINISHED
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chief religious authority at the Safavid court ⓘ |
| religion | Shia Islam ⓘ |
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: Baha al-Din al-Amili Description of subject: Baha al-Din al-Amili was a prominent 16th–17th century Shia scholar, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who became a leading intellectual figure in Safavid Iran.
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