Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
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Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, better known as Mulla Sadra, was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher who founded the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school of thought.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6569698 — 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: Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Context triple: [Mulla Sadra, birthName, Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim]
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A.
Burhan al-Din
Burhan al-Din is an Islamic honorific title meaning "Proof of the Religion," traditionally bestowed on distinguished religious scholars and jurists.
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B.
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known as Saadi, was a renowned 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer celebrated for his works "Bustan" and "Gulistan."
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C.
Izz al-Din Masud
Izz al-Din Masud was a medieval Muslim ruler of the Zengid dynasty who governed parts of northern Iraq and Syria during the 12th century.
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D.
Sheikh Nasir ad-Din
Sheikh Nasir ad-Din is a revered religious figure in Yazidism, honored as one of the tradition’s holy personages associated with spiritual guidance and protection.
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E.
Qavam al-Din
Qavam al-Din was a prominent Timurid-era miniature painter known for his refined contributions to the Persian miniature tradition.
- 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: Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Target entity description: Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, better known as Mulla Sadra, was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher who founded the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school of thought.
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A.
Burhan al-Din
Burhan al-Din is an Islamic honorific title meaning "Proof of the Religion," traditionally bestowed on distinguished religious scholars and jurists.
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B.
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi
Abu-Muhammad Muslih al-Din bin Abdallah Shirazi, better known as Saadi, was a renowned 13th-century Persian poet and prose writer celebrated for his works "Bustan" and "Gulistan."
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C.
Izz al-Din Masud
Izz al-Din Masud was a medieval Muslim ruler of the Zengid dynasty who governed parts of northern Iraq and Syria during the 12th century.
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D.
Sheikh Nasir ad-Din
Sheikh Nasir ad-Din is a revered religious figure in Yazidism, honored as one of the tradition’s holy personages associated with spiritual guidance and protection.
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E.
Qavam al-Din
Qavam al-Din was a prominent Timurid-era miniature painter known for his refined contributions to the Persian miniature tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (61)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic philosopher
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Persian philosopher ⓘ Qajar-era intellectual ⓘ Shia theologian ⓘ mystic ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mulla Sadra
NERFINISHED
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Mullā Ṣadrā NERFINISHED ⓘ Sadr al-Din Shirazi NERFINISHED ⓘ Ṣadr al-Mutaʾallihīn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1571 ⓘ |
| birthName | Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Safavid Iran
NERFINISHED
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Shiraz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Safavid Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | c. 1640 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Basra
NERFINISHED
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Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Twelver Shia Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
17th-century philosophy
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Safavid era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Persian ⓘ |
| founded | school of transcendent theosophy ⓘ |
| influenced |
Islamic philosophy in Iran
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Shia theology ⓘ contemporary Islamic metaphysics ⓘ later Iranian philosophers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ibn Arabi
NERFINISHED
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Ibn Sina NERFINISHED ⓘ Mir Damad NERFINISHED ⓘ Nasir al-Din al-Tusi NERFINISHED ⓘ Suhrawardi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
| mainInterests |
Islamic theology
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Quranic exegesis ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ mysticism ⓘ ontology ⓘ philosophy of existence ⓘ |
| movement |
Transcendent theosophy
NERFINISHED
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al-hikma al-mutaʿāliya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
gradation of existence (tashkik al-wujud)
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primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud) ⓘ substantial motion (al-haraka al-jawhariyya) ⓘ unity of the intellect and the intelligible ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Sharh Usul al-Kafi
NERFINISHED
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Tafsir al-Quran al-karim NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Asfar al-arbaʿa NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Hikma al-mutaʿaliya fi-l-asfar al-ʿaqliyya al-arbaʿa NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Mabdaʾ wa-l-maʿad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Quran commentator
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jurist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | School of Isfahan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Persianate world NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Isfahan
NERFINISHED
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Kahak near Qom NERFINISHED ⓘ Shiraz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Description of subject: Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, better known as Mulla Sadra, was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher who founded the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school of thought.
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