Aḥmad
E727834
Aḥmad is the given name of the renowned Egyptian Sufi master and Maliki jurist Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari, a key figure in the Shadhili order.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8307227 — 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: Aḥmad Context triple: [Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari, givenName, Aḥmad]
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A.
Ahmad
Ahmad is the narrator of the film "Soul Food," providing the story’s perspective and emotional throughline.
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B.
Mohamed
Mohamed is a common Arabic male given name, widely used across the Muslim world in honor of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Sa’id
Sa’id is a male given name of Arabic origin, commonly meaning "happy" or "fortunate."
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D.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim was a son of Orhan Gazi, the second ruler of the early Ottoman state.
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E.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim is the name used in Islamic tradition for the prophet Abraham, a central patriarchal figure revered in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
- 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: Aḥmad Target entity description: Aḥmad is the given name of the renowned Egyptian Sufi master and Maliki jurist Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari, a key figure in the Shadhili order.
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A.
Ahmad
Ahmad is the narrator of the film "Soul Food," providing the story’s perspective and emotional throughline.
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B.
Mohamed
Mohamed is a common Arabic male given name, widely used across the Muslim world in honor of the Prophet Muhammad.
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C.
Sa’id
Sa’id is a male given name of Arabic origin, commonly meaning "happy" or "fortunate."
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D.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim is the name used in Islamic tradition for the prophet Abraham, a central patriarchal figure revered in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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E.
Ibrahim
Ibrahim was a son of Orhan Gazi, the second ruler of the early Ottoman state.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Maliki jurist
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Muslim scholar ⓘ Shadhili shaykh ⓘ Sufi master ⓘ mystic ⓘ person ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Shadhili khanqahs in Egypt ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
13th century
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14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Egypt ⓘ |
| denomination | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
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Islamic theology ⓘ Sufism ⓘ |
| fullName | Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAtaʾ Allah al-Iskandarī NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Sufi biography
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aphorisms ⓘ spiritual treatise ⓘ |
| givenName | Aḥmad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Tāj al-Dīn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
North African Sufi tradition
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later Shadhili authors ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili
NERFINISHED
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Abu al-ʿAbbas al-Mursi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Arabic ⓘ |
| madhhab | Maliki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Shadhili Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popular Sufi aphorisms widely studied in the Muslim world
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systematizing Shadhili teachings in written form ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Laṭāʾif al-Minan
NERFINISHED
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Miftāḥ al-Falāḥ NERFINISHED ⓘ Tāj al-ʿArūs al-Ḥāwī li-Tahdhīb al-Nufūs NERFINISHED ⓘ al-Ḥikam al-ʿAṭāʾiyyah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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jurist ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Alexandria
NERFINISHED
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Cairo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Mamluk Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousRole | Sufi guide ⓘ |
| SufiOrder | Shadhiliyyah NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teacherOf | Shadhili disciples in Egypt ⓘ |
| tradition | Ashʿari theology 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: Aḥmad Description of subject: Aḥmad is the given name of the renowned Egyptian Sufi master and Maliki jurist Ibn ‘Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari, a key figure in the Shadhili order.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ahmad
this entity surface form:
Ahmad
this entity surface form:
Ahmad
this entity surface form:
Ahmad