Abd al-Qahir
E644348
12th-century person
Muslim mystic
Persian person
Sufi master
Sufi shaykh
Sunni Muslim
founder of a Sufi order
religious leader
Abd al-Qahir (Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi) was a prominent 12th-century Persian Sufi master and founder of the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abd al-Qahir canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7129538 — 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: Abd al-Qahir Context triple: [Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi, givenName, Abd al-Qahir]
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A.
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh was a 10th-century Fatimid caliph best known for expanding his dynasty’s rule into Egypt and founding Cairo as its new capital.
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B.
Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri
Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri was the penultimate Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, whose defeat by the Ottomans marked the beginning of the end for the Mamluk Sultanate.
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C.
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid was a 10th-century Turkic military commander and governor who became de facto ruler of Egypt and Syria under the Abbasid Caliphate and established a semi-autonomous state there.
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D.
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was an 11th-century Fatimid caliph in Egypt whose eccentric rule and deification by some followers made him a central, controversial figure in the origins of the Druze faith.
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E.
Abd al-Mu’min
Abd al-Mu’min was a 12th-century Berber leader who transformed the Almohad movement into a powerful North African and Iberian empire as its first caliph.
- 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: Abd al-Qahir Target entity description: Abd al-Qahir (Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi) was a prominent 12th-century Persian Sufi master and founder of the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order.
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A.
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh
al-Muʿizz li-Dīn Allāh was a 10th-century Fatimid caliph best known for expanding his dynasty’s rule into Egypt and founding Cairo as its new capital.
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B.
Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri
Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri was the penultimate Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, whose defeat by the Ottomans marked the beginning of the end for the Mamluk Sultanate.
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C.
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid
Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid was a 10th-century Turkic military commander and governor who became de facto ruler of Egypt and Syria under the Abbasid Caliphate and established a semi-autonomous state there.
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D.
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah
al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah was an 11th-century Fatimid caliph in Egypt whose eccentric rule and deification by some followers made him a central, controversial figure in the origins of the Druze faith.
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E.
Abd al-Mu’min
Abd al-Mu’min was a 12th-century Berber leader who transformed the Almohad movement into a powerful North African and Iberian empire as its first caliph.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
12th-century person
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Muslim mystic ⓘ Persian person ⓘ Sufi master ⓘ Sufi shaykh ⓘ Sunni Muslim ⓘ founder of a Sufi order ⓘ religious leader ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Persian Sufi networks
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Suhrawardiyya khanqahs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 12th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Suhrawardiyya Sufi order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHonorific | Abu al-Najib NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasName |
Abd al-Qahir
NERFINISHED
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Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNisba | al-Suhrawardi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTitle |
Shaykh
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Sufi master ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Islamic Golden Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Persian Sufism
NERFINISHED
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Sufi institutional organization ⓘ later Suhrawardiyya shaykhs ⓘ |
| isFounderOf | Suhrawardiyya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfCulturalSphere |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
| movement |
Sufism
NERFINISHED
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Suhrawardiyya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order
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prominence as a 12th-century Persian Sufi master ⓘ |
| occupation |
Sufi teacher
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religious scholar ⓘ spiritual guide ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Suhraward, Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Iraq
NERFINISHED
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Persia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousBranch | Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spiritualDiscipline |
Sufi asceticism
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dhikr ⓘ |
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: Abd al-Qahir Description of subject: Abd al-Qahir (Abu al-Najib al-Suhrawardi) was a prominent 12th-century Persian Sufi master and founder of the Suhrawardiyya Sufi order.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.