Qadiri
E91570
The Qadiri is one of the oldest and most widespread Sufi orders in Islam, known for its emphasis on spiritual purification, remembrance of God, and a lineage traced back to the 12th-century mystic Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Qadiri canonical | 4 |
| Qadiriyah | 1 |
| Qadiriyya | 1 |
| Qadiriyya Sufi order | 1 |
| Qadri | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T757183 — 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: Qadiri Context triple: [Chechens, sufiOrder, Qadiri]
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A.
Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
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B.
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
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C.
Faizi
Faizi was a renowned 16th-century Persian-language poet and scholar who served as one of the prominent intellectuals in the Mughal emperor Akbar’s court.
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D.
Musa
Musa is the name used in the Quran for the prophet Moses, a central figure in Islamic tradition known for leading the Israelites and receiving divine revelation.
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E.
Hijr Ismail
Hijr Ismail is a semi-circular walled area adjacent to the Kaaba in Mecca that is considered a sacred space and part of the original Kaaba’s foundation.
- 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: Qadiri Target entity description: The Qadiri is one of the oldest and most widespread Sufi orders in Islam, known for its emphasis on spiritual purification, remembrance of God, and a lineage traced back to the 12th-century mystic Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.
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A.
Sheikh Othman
Sheikh Othman is a district in the city of Aden in southern Yemen, historically part of the former British Colony of Aden.
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B.
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin
al-Muqtana Baha’uddin was a central early Druze religious leader and theologian who helped shape and consolidate the community’s doctrines and identity.
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C.
Faizi
Faizi was a renowned 16th-century Persian-language poet and scholar who served as one of the prominent intellectuals in the Mughal emperor Akbar’s court.
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D.
Musa
Musa is the name used in the Quran for the prophet Moses, a central figure in Islamic tradition known for leading the Israelites and receiving divine revelation.
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E.
Hijr Ismail
Hijr Ismail is a semi-circular walled area adjacent to the Kaaba in Mecca that is considered a sacred space and part of the original Kaaba’s foundation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (75)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic religious order
ⓘ
Sufi order ⓘ |
| emphasisOn |
asceticism
ⓘ
charity ⓘ dhikr ⓘ following the Sharia ⓘ love of God and His Messenger ⓘ remembrance of God ⓘ service to others ⓘ spiritual purification ⓘ |
| followsSchool |
Hanbali jurisprudence
ⓘ
Shafi‘i jurisprudence ⓘ Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
ⓘ
surface form:
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
|
| geographicDistribution |
Balkans
ⓘ
People's Republic of Bangladesh (from East Pakistan) ⓘ
surface form:
Bangladesh
Caucasus ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ Egypt ⓘ India ⓘ South Asia ⓘ
surface form:
Indian subcontinent
Indonesia ⓘ Iraq ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North Africa ⓘ Pakistan ⓘ Somalia ⓘ South Asia ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ Sub-Saharan Africa ⓘ Sudan ⓘ Syria ⓘ Turkey ⓘ |
| goal |
attainment of spiritual proximity to God
ⓘ
moral refinement ⓘ purification of the heart ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Qadiri
ⓘ
surface form:
Qadiriyah
Qadiriyya Sufi tradition ⓘ
surface form:
Qadiriyya
|
| hasBranch |
Qadiriyya Sufi tradition
ⓘ
surface form:
Qadiri-Boutchichi order
Qadiriyya Sufi tradition ⓘ
surface form:
Qadiri-Naqshbandi order
Qadiriyya Sufi tradition ⓘ
surface form:
Qadiri-Rifa‘i order
|
| hasCentralConcept |
sincerity in worship
ⓘ
tawhid ⓘ |
| hasCentralFigure |
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
ⓘ
surface form:
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
Ghawth al-Azam ⓘ |
| hasCentralPractice |
collective dhikr gatherings
ⓘ
individual dhikr ⓘ invocation of divine names ⓘ recitation of litanies ⓘ spiritual retreats ⓘ visitation of saints’ tombs ⓘ |
| hasDoctrine |
Ash'ari
ⓘ
surface form:
Ash‘ari theology
Maturidi ⓘ
surface form:
Maturidi theology
Sunni creed ⓘ |
| hasLeaderTitle |
pir
ⓘ
Shaykh al-Islam ⓘ
surface form:
shaykh
|
| hasLineageTo |
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
ⓘ
surface form:
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
|
| hasMemberTitle |
faqir
ⓘ
murid ⓘ |
| hasOrganizationalUnit |
khanqah
ⓘ
tekke ⓘ zawiya ⓘ |
| hasRitual |
celebration of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani’s birth
ⓘ
commemoration of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani’s death anniversary ⓘ recitation of Qadiri wird ⓘ |
| hasSpiritualChain | silsila ⓘ |
| hasSpiritualLineageType | Sunni Sufi lineage ⓘ |
| influenced | other Sufi orders ⓘ |
| isCharacterizedBy |
emphasis on orthodoxy and lawfulness
ⓘ
strong veneration of saints ⓘ wide geographic spread ⓘ |
| isOneOf | oldest Sufi orders in Islam ⓘ |
| namedAfter |
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
ⓘ
surface form:
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
|
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| startTime | 12th century ⓘ |
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: Qadiri Description of subject: The Qadiri is one of the oldest and most widespread Sufi orders in Islam, known for its emphasis on spiritual purification, remembrance of God, and a lineage traced back to the 12th-century mystic Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
this entity surface form:
Qadiriyya
subject surface form:
Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
this entity surface form:
Qadiriyya Sufi order
this entity surface form:
Qadiriyah
this entity surface form:
Qadri