Ali ibn Musa
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Ali ibn Musa, better known as Ali al-Ridha, was the eighth Shia Imam and a prominent Islamic scholar revered for his piety, knowledge, and leadership.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ali ibn Musa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5746226 — 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: Ali ibn Musa Context triple: [Ali, hasGivenNameBearer, Ali ibn Musa]
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A.
ibn Mūsā
ibn Mūsā is the patronymic name indicating that the renowned Persian mathematician and polymath Al-Khwarizmi was the son of a man named Mūsā.
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B.
Al-Samaw'al
Al-Samaw'al was a 12th-century Muslim mathematician best known for his early work on algebraic symbolism and the systematic use of negative numbers.
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C.
Al-Uqlidisi
Al-Uqlidisi was a 10th-century Islamic mathematician renowned for his early systematic treatment of Hindu-Arabic numerals and decimal fractions, significantly advancing arithmetic computation.
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D.
Abu Rayhan
Abu Rayhan was the honorific name of Al-Biruni, a renowned 11th-century Persian polymath known for his influential works in astronomy, mathematics, geography, and comparative religion.
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E.
Abu Ja‘far
Abu Ja‘far is the honorific kunya of the renowned Persian historian and Qur’anic exegete al-Tabari, a foundational figure in early Islamic historiography and tafsir.
- 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: Ali ibn Musa Target entity description: Ali ibn Musa, better known as Ali al-Ridha, was the eighth Shia Imam and a prominent Islamic scholar revered for his piety, knowledge, and leadership.
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A.
ibn Mūsā
ibn Mūsā is the patronymic name indicating that the renowned Persian mathematician and polymath Al-Khwarizmi was the son of a man named Mūsā.
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B.
Al-Samaw'al
Al-Samaw'al was a 12th-century Muslim mathematician best known for his early work on algebraic symbolism and the systematic use of negative numbers.
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C.
Al-Uqlidisi
Al-Uqlidisi was a 10th-century Islamic mathematician renowned for his early systematic treatment of Hindu-Arabic numerals and decimal fractions, significantly advancing arithmetic computation.
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D.
Abu Rayhan
Abu Rayhan was the honorific name of Al-Biruni, a renowned 11th-century Persian polymath known for his influential works in astronomy, mathematics, geography, and comparative religion.
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E.
Abu Ja‘far
Abu Ja‘far is the honorific kunya of the renowned Persian historian and Qur’anic exegete al-Tabari, a foundational figure in early Islamic historiography and tafsir.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic scholar
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Shia Imam ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Ali al-Reza
NERFINISHED
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Ali al-Ridha NERFINISHED ⓘ Imam al-Ridha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appointedHeirBy | al-Ma'mun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedCity | Mashhad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | Ahl al-Bayt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| branch | Twelver Shia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Imam Reza Shrine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mashhad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 766 CE ⓘ |
| dateOfBirthInAH | 148 AH ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 818 CE ⓘ |
| dateOfDeathInAH | 203 AH ⓘ |
| denomination | Shia Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Abbasid era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| family | House of Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Musa al-Kadhim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Ali ibn Musa ibn Jaʿfar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | al-Ridha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influence |
Islamic ethics
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Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ Islamic philosophy ⓘ Shia theology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Quranic exegesis
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hadith scholarship ⓘ jurisprudential opinions ⓘ knowledge ⓘ leadership ⓘ piety ⓘ theological debates ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| lineage |
descendant of Ali ibn Abi Talib
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descendant of Fatimah bint Muhammad ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Iran
NERFINISHED
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Khorasan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Najma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| numberInImamate | 8 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Medina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Khorasan
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Tus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| position | eighth Shia Imam ⓘ |
| predecessorAsImam | Musa al-Kadhim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationToAl-Ma'mun | crown prince and designated successor ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Marv
NERFINISHED
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Medina NERFINISHED ⓘ Tus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| shrineSignificance | major Shia pilgrimage site ⓘ |
| successorAsImam | Muhammad al-Jawad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Shia Islam
NERFINISHED
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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: Ali ibn Musa Description of subject: Ali ibn Musa, better known as Ali al-Ridha, was the eighth Shia Imam and a prominent Islamic scholar revered for his piety, knowledge, and leadership.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.