al‑Hallaj
E28288
Al-Hallaj was a 10th-century Persian Sufi mystic and poet, famed for his ecstatic utterance "Ana al-Haqq" ("I am the Truth") and his subsequent execution for heresy, which made him a symbol of mystical martyrdom in Islam.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mansur al-Hallaj | 7 |
| al-Hallaj | 2 |
| Abu al-Mughith al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj | 1 |
| al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj | 1 |
| al‑Hallaj canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212988 — 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.
Target entity: al‑Hallaj Context triple: [Sufism, hasNotableFigure, al‑Hallaj]
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A.
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi was a seminal medieval Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet whose metaphysical teachings, especially the doctrine of the "Unity of Being," profoundly shaped Islamic spirituality and thought.
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B.
Al-Khalil
Al-Khalil is the Arabic name for the city of Hebron in the West Bank, a historically significant and religiously important city revered in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
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C.
al‑Ghazali
Al-Ghazali was an influential 11th–12th century Persian theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic whose works profoundly shaped Islamic thought and Sufi spirituality.
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D.
al‑Junayd
Al-Junayd was a seminal 9th-century Sufi master renowned for articulating a sober, intellectually grounded form of Islamic mysticism that deeply shaped later Sufi thought.
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E.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: al‑Hallaj
Target entity description: Al-Hallaj was a 10th-century Persian Sufi mystic and poet, famed for his ecstatic utterance "Ana al-Haqq" ("I am the Truth") and his subsequent execution for heresy, which made him a symbol of mystical martyrdom in Islam.
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A.
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi was a seminal medieval Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet whose metaphysical teachings, especially the doctrine of the "Unity of Being," profoundly shaped Islamic spirituality and thought.
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B.
Al-Khalil
Al-Khalil is the Arabic name for the city of Hebron in the West Bank, a historically significant and religiously important city revered in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.
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C.
al‑Ghazali
Al-Ghazali was an influential 11th–12th century Persian theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic whose works profoundly shaped Islamic thought and Sufi spirituality.
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D.
al‑Junayd
Al-Junayd was a seminal 9th-century Sufi master renowned for articulating a sober, intellectually grounded form of Islamic mysticism that deeply shaped later Sufi thought.
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E.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic mystic
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Sufi mystic ⓘ martyr figure ⓘ person ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| birthName |
al‑Hallaj
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
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| burialPlace |
Tigris
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surface form:
Tigris River (ashes scattered)
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| centuryOfActivity | 10th century ⓘ |
| charge | heresy ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 858 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 922 ⓘ |
| era |
Abbasid Caliphate
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surface form:
Abbasid era
|
| ethnicGroup | Persian ⓘ |
| fullName |
al‑Hallaj
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Abu al-Mughith al-Husayn ibn Mansur al-Hallaj
|
| givenName |
Hussein
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surface form:
Husayn
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| influenced |
Attar of Nishapur
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Ibn Arabi ⓘ Rumi ⓘ later Sufi poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Junayd of Baghdad
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Sahl al-Tustari ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
Arabic
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| legacy |
controversial figure in Islamic theology
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icon of divine love and annihilation of self in Sufism ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| methodOfExecution |
beheading
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burning of body ⓘ crucifixion ⓘ |
| movement | Sufism ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ecstatic mystical utterances
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execution for heresy ⓘ symbol of mystical martyrdom in Islam ⓘ |
| notableIdea | Ana al-Haqq ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Ana al-Haqq ⓘ |
| notableWork | Kitab al-Tawasin ⓘ |
| numberOfPilgrimagesToMecca | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
mystic
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poet ⓘ preacher ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| performedPilgrimageTo | Mecca ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | near al-Bayda, Fars, Persia ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Baghdad ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Baghdad
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Basra ⓘ Khuzestan ⓘ |
| subjectOf | numerous Sufi hagiographies ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: al‑Hallaj
Description of subject: Al-Hallaj was a 10th-century Persian Sufi mystic and poet, famed for his ecstatic utterance "Ana al-Haqq" ("I am the Truth") and his subsequent execution for heresy, which made him a symbol of mystical martyrdom in Islam.
Referenced by (12)
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