ibn Yūsuf
E383088
ibn Yūsuf is the patronymic identifying Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī as the son of a man named Yūsuf.
All labels observed (3)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3718141 — 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: ibn Yūsuf Context triple: [Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī, patronymic, ibn Yūsuf]
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A.
Ibn ‘Ajiba
Ibn ‘Ajiba was an 18th–19th century Moroccan Sufi scholar, Qur’anic commentator, and spiritual master known for integrating Shadhili mystical teachings with rigorous Islamic scholarship.
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B.
Yahya ibn Abi Mansur
Yahya ibn Abi Mansur was a prominent 9th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician of the Abbasid era, known for his influential work at the Baghdad court and contributions to Islamic astronomy.
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C.
Ibn al-Fuwati
Ibn al-Fuwati was a 13th-century Muslim historian, librarian, and biographer known for his detailed accounts of the Mongol era and scholarly life in Baghdad.
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D.
Ibn al-Salah
Ibn al-Salah was a prominent 13th-century Kurdish Muslim hadith scholar and jurist best known for his foundational work "Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah" on hadith sciences.
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E.
Ibn Muqla
Ibn Muqla was a 10th-century Abbasid vizier and master calligrapher renowned for codifying the proportional rules that shaped classical Arabic scripts, especially Naskh.
- 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: ibn Yūsuf Target entity description: ibn Yūsuf is the patronymic identifying Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī as the son of a man named Yūsuf.
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A.
Ibn ‘Ajiba
Ibn ‘Ajiba was an 18th–19th century Moroccan Sufi scholar, Qur’anic commentator, and spiritual master known for integrating Shadhili mystical teachings with rigorous Islamic scholarship.
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B.
Yahya ibn Abi Mansur
Yahya ibn Abi Mansur was a prominent 9th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician of the Abbasid era, known for his influential work at the Baghdad court and contributions to Islamic astronomy.
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C.
Ibn al-Fuwati
Ibn al-Fuwati was a 13th-century Muslim historian, librarian, and biographer known for his detailed accounts of the Mongol era and scholarly life in Baghdad.
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D.
Ibn al-Salah
Ibn al-Salah was a prominent 13th-century Kurdish Muslim hadith scholar and jurist best known for his foundational work "Muqaddimah Ibn al-Salah" on hadith sciences.
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E.
Ibn Muqla
Ibn Muqla was a 10th-century Abbasid vizier and master calligrapher renowned for codifying the proportional rules that shaped classical Arabic scripts, especially Naskh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Arabic patronymic
ⓘ
patronymic ⓘ |
| appliesToPerson | any male whose father is named Yūsuf ⓘ |
| component |
Yusuf
ⓘ
surface form:
Yūsuf
ibn ⓘ |
| etymologyElement |
Yusuf
ⓘ
surface form:
Yūsuf is the Arabic form of the name Joseph
ibn derives from Arabic word for son ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī ⓘ |
| followsElementType | given name of the son ⓘ |
| genderAssociation | male lineage ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Yūsuf ⓘ |
| morphologicalPattern | ibn + father’s given name ⓘ |
| namingFunction |
Yusuf
ⓘ
surface form:
links individual to father named Yūsuf
|
| partOf | Arabic naming conventions ⓘ |
| precedesElementType | nisba or family name in full Arabic names ⓘ |
| relatedConcept | nasab (genealogical naming) ⓘ |
| script | Arabic script ⓘ |
| semanticRole | patronymic marker ⓘ |
| transliterationOf |
ibn Yūsuf
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
ابن يوسف
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| usedFor |
identifying paternal lineage
ⓘ
indicating that a person is the son of Yūsuf ⓘ |
| usedInCulture | Islamic culture ⓘ |
| usedInNameOf | Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī ⓘ |
| usedInRegion | Arabic-speaking regions ⓘ |
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: ibn Yūsuf Description of subject: ibn Yūsuf is the patronymic identifying Saʿīd ibn Yūsuf al-Fayyūmī as the son of a man named Yūsuf.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
ibn Yusuf
this entity surface form:
ابن يوسف