Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi
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Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher and theologian, best known for founding the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school that synthesized Peripatetic, Illuminationist, and mystical thought.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sadr ad-Din Muhammad Shirazi | 1 |
| Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6569699 — 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 al-Shirazi Context triple: [Mulla Sadra, alsoKnownAs, Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi]
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Shaykh al-Tusi
Shaykh al-Tusi was an influential 11th-century Twelver Shia scholar and jurist, renowned for systematizing Shia jurisprudence and hadith and for founding the scholarly center in Najaf.
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B.
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi was an influential 11th-century Shafi'i jurist and theologian, renowned for his legal writings and for shaping Sunni scholarship in Baghdad.
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C.
Zainuddin Shirazi
Zainuddin Shirazi was a prominent Sufi saint of the Chishti order in medieval India, revered for his spiritual influence in the Deccan region.
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D.
Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi
Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi was a Persian prince and trader traditionally credited as the founding ruler of the medieval Swahili city-state of Kilwa on the East African coast.
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E.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a 13th-century Persian polymath renowned for his influential works in astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, and theology.
- 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 al-Shirazi Target entity description: Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher and theologian, best known for founding the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school that synthesized Peripatetic, Illuminationist, and mystical thought.
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A.
Shaykh al-Tusi
Shaykh al-Tusi was an influential 11th-century Twelver Shia scholar and jurist, renowned for systematizing Shia jurisprudence and hadith and for founding the scholarly center in Najaf.
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B.
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi was an influential 11th-century Shafi'i jurist and theologian, renowned for his legal writings and for shaping Sunni scholarship in Baghdad.
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C.
Zainuddin Shirazi
Zainuddin Shirazi was a prominent Sufi saint of the Chishti order in medieval India, revered for his spiritual influence in the Deccan region.
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D.
Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi
Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi was a Persian prince and trader traditionally credited as the founding ruler of the medieval Swahili city-state of Kilwa on the East African coast.
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E.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a 13th-century Persian polymath renowned for his influential works in astronomy, mathematics, philosophy, and theology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic philosopher
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Persian philosopher ⓘ Shia scholar ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mulla Sadra
NERFINISHED
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Mullā Ṣadrā NERFINISHED ⓘ Ṣadr al-Mutaʾallihīn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Safavid Iran
NERFINISHED
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Shiraz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | c. 1571 ⓘ |
| citizenship | Safavid Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Basra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ottoman Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1640 ⓘ |
| denomination | Twelver Shia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era |
17th century
ⓘ
Safavid era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
Islamic philosophy
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Quranic exegesis ⓘ hadith studies ⓘ kalam ⓘ |
| founded | Transcendent theosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Sadr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Shirazi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary Shia seminaries
ⓘ
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 ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
Islamic mysticism
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Quranic exegesis ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ ontology ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
gradation of existence (tashkik al-wujud)
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primacy of existence (asalat al-wujud) ⓘ substantial motion (al-haraka al-jawhariyya) NERFINISHED ⓘ unity of the intellect and the intelligible ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Sharh al-Usul al-Kafi
NERFINISHED
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Tafsir al-Qurʾan 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 ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance | synthesis of Peripatetic, Illuminationist, and mystical thought ⓘ |
| region | Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| schoolTradition |
Illuminationist philosophy
NERFINISHED
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Islamic mysticism ⓘ Peripatetic philosophy ⓘ Transcendent theosophy ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Isfahan
NERFINISHED
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Kahak near Qom NERFINISHED ⓘ Shiraz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wroteInLanguage |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
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: Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi Description of subject: Sadr al-Din al-Shirazi was a seminal 17th-century Persian Islamic philosopher and theologian, best known for founding the transcendent theosophy (al-hikma al-muta‘aliya) school that synthesized Peripatetic, Illuminationist, and mystical thought.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sadr ad-Din Muhammad Shirazi