Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
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Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari was a seminal 10th-century Muslim theologian who founded the Ash'ari school of Sunni kalam, shaping orthodox Islamic theology for centuries.
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| Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12240525 — 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: Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari Context triple: [Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini, influencedBy, Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari]
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A.
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi was a 10th-century Sunni Muslim theologian whose rationalist approach to creed founded the influential Maturidi school of Islamic theology.
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B.
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili was a 13th-century Moroccan Sufi master and scholar renowned as the eponymous founder of one of the most influential Sufi orders in the Islamic world.
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C.
Maturidi
Maturidi is a major Sunni theological school that emphasizes the use of reason alongside revelation to articulate Islamic creed and defend core doctrines.
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D.
Majd al-Din ibn Taymiyyah
Majd al-Din ibn Taymiyyah was a prominent 13th-century Hanbali scholar and jurist, best known as the grandfather and an important intellectual precursor of the theologian Ibn Taymiyyah.
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E.
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah was a medieval Sunni Muslim theologian, jurist, and reformer known for his rigorous traditionalism and lasting influence on later Islamic thought and movements.
- 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: Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari Target entity description: Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari was a seminal 10th-century Muslim theologian who founded the Ash'ari school of Sunni kalam, shaping orthodox Islamic theology for centuries.
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A.
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
Abu Mansur al-Maturidi was a 10th-century Sunni Muslim theologian whose rationalist approach to creed founded the influential Maturidi school of Islamic theology.
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B.
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili
Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili was a 13th-century Moroccan Sufi master and scholar renowned as the eponymous founder of one of the most influential Sufi orders in the Islamic world.
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C.
Maturidi
Maturidi is a major Sunni theological school that emphasizes the use of reason alongside revelation to articulate Islamic creed and defend core doctrines.
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D.
Majd al-Din ibn Taymiyyah
Majd al-Din ibn Taymiyyah was a prominent 13th-century Hanbali scholar and jurist, best known as the grandfather and an important intellectual precursor of the theologian Ibn Taymiyyah.
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E.
Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Taymiyyah was a medieval Sunni Muslim theologian, jurist, and reformer known for his rigorous traditionalism and lasting influence on later Islamic thought and movements.
- F. None of above. chosen
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