Ja'fari school
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The Ja'fari school is the principal school of Islamic jurisprudence in Twelver Shi'a Islam, based on the teachings of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq and the line of Shi'a Imams.
All labels observed (12)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ja'fari jurisprudence | 3 |
| Ja'fari school canonical | 3 |
| Ja'fari fiqh | 2 |
| Jaʿfari fiqh | 2 |
| Ja'fari | 1 |
| Ja'fari (Shia) jurisprudence | 1 |
| Ja'fari madhhab | 1 |
| Ja'fari school of jurisprudence | 1 |
| Jaʿfari school of law | 1 |
| Najaf school of Shia thought | 1 |
| Shia schools of law | 1 |
| Twelver Jaʿfari school | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T212882 — 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: Ja'fari school Context triple: [Sharia, hasSchoolOfInterpretation, Ja'fari school]
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Maliki school
The Maliki school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its reliance on the practices of the people of Medina as a primary source of jurisprudence.
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Shafi'i school
The Shafi'i school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its systematic methodology in deriving Islamic law from the Qur'an, Hadith, consensus, and analogical reasoning.
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Hanbali school
The Hanbali school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its strict textualism and reliance on the Quran and Hadith over juristic reasoning.
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Hanafi school
The Hanafi school is the oldest and one of the most widely followed Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its flexible and rationalist approach to jurisprudence.
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E.
Suhrawardiyya
Suhrawardiyya is a major Sufi order originating in the Islamic world, known for its emphasis on spiritual discipline, ethical conduct, and organized missionary activity.
- 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: Ja'fari school Target entity description: The Ja'fari school is the principal school of Islamic jurisprudence in Twelver Shi'a Islam, based on the teachings of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq and the line of Shi'a Imams.
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A.
Maliki school
The Maliki school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its reliance on the practices of the people of Medina as a primary source of jurisprudence.
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B.
Shafi'i school
The Shafi'i school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its systematic methodology in deriving Islamic law from the Qur'an, Hadith, consensus, and analogical reasoning.
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C.
Hanbali school
The Hanbali school is one of the four major Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its strict textualism and reliance on the Quran and Hadith over juristic reasoning.
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D.
Hanafi school
The Hanafi school is the oldest and one of the most widely followed Sunni Islamic legal schools, known for its flexible and rationalist approach to jurisprudence.
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E.
Suhrawardiyya
Suhrawardiyya is a major Sufi order originating in the Islamic world, known for its emphasis on spiritual discipline, ethical conduct, and organized missionary activity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Ja'fari school Description of subject: The Ja'fari school is the principal school of Islamic jurisprudence in Twelver Shi'a Islam, based on the teachings of Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq and the line of Shi'a Imams.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Ja'fari jurisprudence
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Ja'fari
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Ja'fari fiqh
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Ja'fari madhhab
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Jaʿfari fiqh
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Twelver Jaʿfari school
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Ja'fari school of jurisprudence
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Ja'fari fiqh
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Jaʿfari school of law
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Shia schools of law
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Najaf school of Shia thought
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Jaʿfari fiqh
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Ja'fari jurisprudence
this entity surface form:
Ja'fari jurisprudence