Ahmad al-‘Alawi
E198440
Ahmad al-‘Alawi was a prominent 20th-century Algerian Sufi master and founder of the Alawiyya order, known for his spiritual teachings, poetry, and efforts to adapt Sufism to the modern world.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ahmad al-‘Alawi canonical | 2 |
| Ahmad al-‘Alawi al-Mustaghani | 1 |
| Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-‘Alawi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1473755 — 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 al-‘Alawi Context triple: [Shadhiliyya, influenced, Ahmad al-‘Alawi]
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A.
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
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B.
Ahmad Shukeiri
Ahmad Shukeiri was a Palestinian lawyer and politician who became the founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1960s.
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C.
Khalil al-Wazir
Khalil al-Wazir, better known as Abu Jihad, was a founding leader and chief military strategist of the Palestinian Fatah movement and a key architect of the Palestinian armed struggle against Israel.
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D.
M. M. Badawi
M. M. Badawi was a prominent Egyptian literary scholar and translator known for his influential work on modern Arabic literature and for translating major Arabic novels into English.
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E.
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.
- 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 al-‘Alawi Target entity description: Ahmad al-‘Alawi was a prominent 20th-century Algerian Sufi master and founder of the Alawiyya order, known for his spiritual teachings, poetry, and efforts to adapt Sufism to the modern world.
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A.
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad
al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad is the authoritarian yet pleasure-seeking patriarch whose complex personality and family life anchor Naguib Mahfouz’s renowned Cairo Trilogy.
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B.
Ahmad Shukeiri
Ahmad Shukeiri was a Palestinian lawyer and politician who became the founding chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1960s.
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C.
Khalil al-Wazir
Khalil al-Wazir, better known as Abu Jihad, was a founding leader and chief military strategist of the Palestinian Fatah movement and a key architect of the Palestinian armed struggle against Israel.
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D.
M. M. Badawi
M. M. Badawi was a prominent Egyptian literary scholar and translator known for his influential work on modern Arabic literature and for translating major Arabic novels into English.
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E.
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi
Sadr al-Din al-Qunawi was a prominent 13th-century Persian Sufi philosopher and mystic, renowned for systematizing and elaborating the metaphysical teachings of Ibn Arabi.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic scholar
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Sufi master ⓘ founder of a Sufi order ⓘ poet ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| activity |
composing devotional poetry
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guiding spiritual disciples ⓘ leading Sufi gatherings ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Ahmad al-‘Alawi
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surface form:
Ahmad al-‘Alawi al-Mustaghani
Ahmad al-‘Alawi ⓘ
surface form:
Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-‘Alawi
|
| birthPlace |
Algeria
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Mostaganem ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Algeria ⓘ |
| denomination | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Algerian ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic mysticism
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Sufi spirituality ⓘ religious reform ⓘ |
| founded |
Alawiyya Sufi order
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Alawiyya Sufi order ⓘ
surface form:
Alawiyya tariqa
|
| influenced |
20th-century Sufi movements
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Alawiyya disciples in North Africa ⓘ European Sufi converts ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Sufi poetry
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adapting Sufism to the modern world ⓘ founding the Alawiyya order ⓘ revival of Sufism in North Africa ⓘ spiritual teachings ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Arabic ⓘ |
| movement | Sufism ⓘ |
| name | Ahmad al-‘Alawi self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | bridging traditional Sufism and modernity ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
emphasis on inner spiritual realization
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integration of Sufism with modern life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Sufi treatises
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spiritual poetry ⓘ |
| occupation |
Sufi shaykh
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poet ⓘ religious teacher ⓘ |
| order | Alawiyya order ⓘ |
| region |
North Africa
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surface form:
Maghreb
North Africa ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| tradition |
Shadhiliyya Sufi tradition
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surface form:
Shadhili Sufism
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How these facts were elicited
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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 al-‘Alawi Description of subject: Ahmad al-‘Alawi was a prominent 20th-century Algerian Sufi master and founder of the Alawiyya order, known for his spiritual teachings, poetry, and efforts to adapt Sufism to the modern world.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ahmad ibn Mustafa al-‘Alawi
this entity surface form:
Ahmad al-‘Alawi al-Mustaghani