Jalāl al-Dīn
E128740
Jalāl al-Dīn is the given name of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic widely known in the West as Rumi.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jalal al-Din | 1 |
| Jalāl al-Dīn canonical | 1 |
| Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad | 1 |
| Mowlana | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1039958 — 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: Jalāl al-Dīn Context triple: [Rumi, givenName, Jalāl al-Dīn]
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A.
Ulugh Beg
Ulugh Beg was a 15th-century Timurid ruler, astronomer, and mathematician renowned for building a major observatory in Samarkand and producing highly accurate astronomical tables.
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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.
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani was a prominent 12th‑century Islamic scholar and mystic revered as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and a major spiritual figure in Sunni Islam.
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D.
Ahmet Yesevi
Ahmet Yesevi was a 12th-century Turkic Sufi poet and mystic whose teachings and verse profoundly influenced early Turkish literature and Islamic culture in Central Asia and Anatolia.
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E.
Abu Sa'id Mirza
Abu Sa'id Mirza was a 15th-century Timurid ruler who briefly reunified much of the Timurid realm in Central Asia and Iran before his death led to renewed fragmentation.
- 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: Jalāl al-Dīn Target entity description: Jalāl al-Dīn is the given name of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic widely known in the West as Rumi.
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A.
Ulugh Beg
Ulugh Beg was a 15th-century Timurid ruler, astronomer, and mathematician renowned for building a major observatory in Samarkand and producing highly accurate astronomical tables.
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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.
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani
Abd al‑Qadir al‑Jilani was a prominent 12th‑century Islamic scholar and mystic revered as the founder of the Qadiriyya Sufi order and a major spiritual figure in Sunni Islam.
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D.
Ahmet Yesevi
Ahmet Yesevi was a 12th-century Turkic Sufi poet and mystic whose teachings and verse profoundly influenced early Turkish literature and Islamic culture in Central Asia and Anatolia.
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E.
Abu Sa'id Mirza
Abu Sa'id Mirza was a 15th-century Timurid ruler who briefly reunified much of the Timurid realm in Central Asia and Iran before his death led to renewed fragmentation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic scholar
ⓘ
Sufi mystic ⓘ jurist ⓘ person ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mawlānā
ⓘ
Rumi ⓘ
surface form:
Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Mevleviyya ⓘ
surface form:
Mevlânâ
Molānā ⓘ Mawlānā ⓘ
surface form:
Mowlānā
Rumi ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1207-09-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Balkh ⓘ |
| birthPlaceNowIn | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| birthRegion | Khorasan ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Konya ⓘ |
| century | 13th century ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1273-12-17 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Konya ⓘ |
| deathPlaceNowIn | Turkey ⓘ |
| era |
Islamic Golden Age
ⓘ
surface form:
Islamic Golden Age (late phase)
|
| ethnicity | Persian ⓘ |
| father | Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad ⓘ |
| field |
Islamic jurisprudence
ⓘ
Quranic exegesis ⓘ mystical poetry ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Jalāl al-Dīn
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad
|
| givenNameOf | Rumi ⓘ |
| hasMausoleum |
Mevlana Museum
ⓘ
surface form:
Mevlana Museum in Konya
|
| influencedBy |
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Walad
ⓘ
Shams-e Tabrizi ⓘ
surface form:
Shams-e Tabrīzī
|
| inspired |
Mevleviyya
ⓘ
surface form:
Mevlevi Order
|
| language | Persian ⓘ |
| mainWork |
Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi
ⓘ
surface form:
Dīwān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī
Fihi Ma Fihi ⓘ
surface form:
Fīhi mā fīhi
Majalis-e Sab'a ⓘ
surface form:
Majālis-e Sab‘a
Makatib ⓘ
surface form:
Maktūbāt
Masnavi ⓘ |
| movement |
Mevleviyya
ⓘ
surface form:
Mevlevi Order
|
| notableFor |
Persian mystical poetry
ⓘ
Sufi teachings on divine love ⓘ |
| occupation |
preacher
ⓘ
teacher ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Anatolia
ⓘ
Konya ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousBranch | Sufism ⓘ |
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: Jalāl al-Dīn Description of subject: Jalāl al-Dīn is the given name of the 13th-century Persian poet and Sufi mystic widely known in the West as Rumi.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mowlana
this entity surface form:
Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad
this entity surface form:
Jalal al-Din