Kitab al-Qadr
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Kitab al-Qadr is an Islamic hadith collection focused on the theological concept of divine decree and predestination, traditionally attributed to the scholar Abu Dawud al-Sijistani.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kitab al-Qadr canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9365663 — 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: Kitab al-Qadr Context triple: [Abu Dawud Sulayman ibn al-Ashʿath al-Sijistani, notableWork, Kitab al-Qadr]
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A.
Kitab al-Sa‘ada
Kitab al-Sa‘ada is a philosophical treatise on ethics and human happiness by the medieval Persian thinker Ibn Miskawayh, exploring the cultivation of virtue and the soul’s perfection.
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B.
Kitab al-Tawasin
Kitab al-Tawasin is a seminal mystical and poetic work of Islamic Sufism, attributed to the famed mystic al-Hallaj and known for its esoteric reflections on divine love, unity, and martyrdom.
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C.
Kitab al-Ibar
Kitab al-Ibar is a monumental 14th-century universal history by Ibn Khaldun, best known for its pioneering introduction, the Muqaddimah, which laid the foundations of modern historiography and sociology.
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D.
Kitab al-Sab'in
Kitab al-Sab'in is a seminal alchemical treatise attributed to the early Islamic polymath Jabir ibn Hayyan, exploring theoretical and practical aspects of chemistry and transmutation.
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E.
Kitab al-Wasaya
Kitab al-Wasaya is a seminal early Sufi treatise by al-Harith al-Muhasibi that offers ethical and spiritual guidance on self-discipline, piety, and inner purification.
- 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: Kitab al-Qadr Target entity description: Kitab al-Qadr is an Islamic hadith collection focused on the theological concept of divine decree and predestination, traditionally attributed to the scholar Abu Dawud al-Sijistani.
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A.
Kitab al-Sa‘ada
Kitab al-Sa‘ada is a philosophical treatise on ethics and human happiness by the medieval Persian thinker Ibn Miskawayh, exploring the cultivation of virtue and the soul’s perfection.
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B.
Kitab al-Tawasin
Kitab al-Tawasin is a seminal mystical and poetic work of Islamic Sufism, attributed to the famed mystic al-Hallaj and known for its esoteric reflections on divine love, unity, and martyrdom.
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C.
Kitab al-Ibar
Kitab al-Ibar is a monumental 14th-century universal history by Ibn Khaldun, best known for its pioneering introduction, the Muqaddimah, which laid the foundations of modern historiography and sociology.
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D.
Kitab al-Sab'in
Kitab al-Sab'in is a seminal alchemical treatise attributed to the early Islamic polymath Jabir ibn Hayyan, exploring theoretical and practical aspects of chemistry and transmutation.
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E.
Kitab al-Wasaya
Kitab al-Wasaya is a seminal early Sufi treatise by al-Harith al-Muhasibi that offers ethical and spiritual guidance on self-discipline, piety, and inner purification.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic religious text
ⓘ
hadith collection ⓘ |
| associatedScholar | Abu Dawud al-Sijistani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sunni Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Abu Dawud al-Sijistani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category | Islamic creed literature ⓘ |
| discussesConcept |
divine omniscience
ⓘ
divine will ⓘ fate ⓘ human free will in Islam ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
Islamic theology
ⓘ
aqidah ⓘ |
| genre | hadith literature ⓘ |
| hasPart | hadith ⓘ |
| influenced | later Sunni discussions of predestination ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
divine decree in Islam
ⓘ
predestination in Islam ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin | Abbasid Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | Sunan Abu Dawud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| theologicalFocus |
divine decree
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predestination ⓘ qadar ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 9th century ⓘ |
| tradition | hadith of the Prophet Muhammad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| traditionallyAttributedTo | Abu Dawud al-Sijistani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Muslim theologians
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hadith scholars ⓘ |
| usedIn | Islamic theological debates on qadar ⓘ |
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: Kitab al-Qadr Description of subject: Kitab al-Qadr is an Islamic hadith collection focused on the theological concept of divine decree and predestination, traditionally attributed to the scholar Abu Dawud al-Sijistani.
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