Ahmad al-Badawi
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Ahmad al-Badawi was a 13th-century Moroccan-born Sufi saint and founder of the Badawiyya order, venerated especially in Tanta, Egypt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ahmad al-Badawi canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10215591 — 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: Ahmad al-Badawi Context triple: [Mosque of Ahmad al-Badawi, dedicatedTo, Ahmad al-Badawi]
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A.
Ahmad al-Khatib
Ahmad al-Khatib was a Syrian politician who briefly served as interim President of Syria following the 1970 Corrective Movement before being succeeded by Hafez al-Assad.
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B.
Marouf al-Bakhit
Marouf al-Bakhit was a Jordanian military officer, diplomat, and politician who twice served as Jordan’s prime minister in the mid-2000s and early 2010s.
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C.
Ibrahim al-Nakhaʿi
Ibrahim al-Nakhaʿi was an early Kufan Islamic jurist and hadith scholar whose legal reasoning and teachings significantly shaped the development of Hanafi jurisprudence.
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D.
Ahmad al-‘Alawi
Ahmad al-‘Alawi was a prominent 20th-century Algerian Sufi master and founder of the Alawiyya order, known for his spiritual teachings, poetry, and efforts to adapt Sufism to the modern world.
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E.
Saʿid Karim
Saʿid Karim is the birth name of Ignatius Aphrem II, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
- 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: Ahmad al-Badawi Target entity description: Ahmad al-Badawi was a 13th-century Moroccan-born Sufi saint and founder of the Badawiyya order, venerated especially in Tanta, Egypt.
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A.
Ahmad al-Khatib
Ahmad al-Khatib was a Syrian politician who briefly served as interim President of Syria following the 1970 Corrective Movement before being succeeded by Hafez al-Assad.
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B.
Marouf al-Bakhit
Marouf al-Bakhit was a Jordanian military officer, diplomat, and politician who twice served as Jordan’s prime minister in the mid-2000s and early 2010s.
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C.
Ibrahim al-Nakhaʿi
Ibrahim al-Nakhaʿi was an early Kufan Islamic jurist and hadith scholar whose legal reasoning and teachings significantly shaped the development of Hanafi jurisprudence.
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D.
Ahmad al-‘Alawi
Ahmad al-‘Alawi was a prominent 20th-century Algerian Sufi master and founder of the Alawiyya order, known for his spiritual teachings, poetry, and efforts to adapt Sufism to the modern world.
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E.
Saʿid Karim
Saʿid Karim is the birth name of Ignatius Aphrem II, the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim mystic
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Sufi saint ⓘ founder of a Sufi order ⓘ religious leader ⓘ venerated figure in Islam ⓘ |
| associatedWithCity | Tanta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCountry | Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 13th century ⓘ |
| commemoratedBy | annual mawlid in Tanta ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Morocco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalInfluence |
Egyptian Sufism
ⓘ
North African Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Medieval Islam ⓘ |
| founderOf | Badawiyya order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDevotionalCult | Badawiyya devotees ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Sufi master
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spiritual guide ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | al-Sayyid al-Badawi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageContext | Arabic-speaking Islamic world ⓘ |
| movement | Badawiyya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being widely venerated in Tanta, Egypt
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founding the Badawiyya Sufi order ⓘ |
| placeOfVeneration |
Egypt
NERFINISHED
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Tanta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousBranch | Sufism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| typeOfSaint | Sufi wali ⓘ |
| veneratedIn |
Egypt
NERFINISHED
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North Africa NERFINISHED ⓘ Sunni Islam 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: Ahmad al-Badawi Description of subject: Ahmad al-Badawi was a 13th-century Moroccan-born Sufi saint and founder of the Badawiyya order, venerated especially in Tanta, Egypt.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.