Yusuf al-Qaradawi
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Islamic scholar
Muslim Brotherhood ideologue
Sunni cleric
jurist
person
television personality
theologian
Yusuf al-Qaradawi was a prominent Egyptian Islamic scholar and influential Sunni cleric known for his role in contemporary Islamic jurisprudence, his leadership within the Muslim Brotherhood’s intellectual sphere, and his widely broadcast religious programs.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yusuf al-Qaradawi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7074437 — 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: Yusuf al-Qaradawi Context triple: [King Faisal International Prize for Service to Islam, notableRecipient, Yusuf al-Qaradawi]
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A.
Hassan al-Banna
Hassan al-Banna was an Egyptian schoolteacher, Islamic scholar, and political activist best known as the founder and first leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a major Islamist movement in the 20th century.
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B.
Abdul Rahman Azzam
Abdul Rahman Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, nationalist, and statesman best known for serving as the founding Secretary-General of the Arab League and advocating Arab unity in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb was an influential Egyptian Islamist ideologue and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Sunni Islamist and jihadist thought.
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D.
Taha Yassin Ramadan
Taha Yassin Ramadan was an Iraqi politician who served as one of Saddam Hussein’s closest aides and as Vice President of Iraq before being convicted and executed for crimes against humanity after the fall of his regime.
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E.
Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb
Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb is the Sheikh of al-Azhar and a leading Sunni Muslim scholar known for his prominent role in contemporary interreligious dialogue with the Vatican.
- 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: Yusuf al-Qaradawi Target entity description: Yusuf al-Qaradawi was a prominent Egyptian Islamic scholar and influential Sunni cleric known for his role in contemporary Islamic jurisprudence, his leadership within the Muslim Brotherhood’s intellectual sphere, and his widely broadcast religious programs.
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A.
Hassan al-Banna
Hassan al-Banna was an Egyptian schoolteacher, Islamic scholar, and political activist best known as the founder and first leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, a major Islamist movement in the 20th century.
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B.
Abdul Rahman Azzam
Abdul Rahman Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, nationalist, and statesman best known for serving as the founding Secretary-General of the Arab League and advocating Arab unity in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Sayyid Qutb
Sayyid Qutb was an influential Egyptian Islamist ideologue and writer whose works profoundly shaped modern Sunni Islamist and jihadist thought.
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D.
Taha Yassin Ramadan
Taha Yassin Ramadan was an Iraqi politician who served as one of Saddam Hussein’s closest aides and as Vice President of Iraq before being convicted and executed for crimes against humanity after the fall of his regime.
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E.
Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb
Grand Imam Ahmad al-Tayyeb is the Sheikh of al-Azhar and a leading Sunni Muslim scholar known for his prominent role in contemporary interreligious dialogue with the Vatican.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic scholar
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Muslim Brotherhood ideologue ⓘ Sunni cleric ⓘ jurist ⓘ person ⓘ television personality ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1926-09-09 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Saft Turab NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| broadcastOn | Al Jazeera NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Egypt
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Qatar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Qatar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Qatar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2022-09-26 ⓘ |
| denomination | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Al-Azhar University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Qatar University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | al-Qaradawi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
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Islamic theology ⓘ fiqh ⓘ usul al-fiqh ⓘ |
| founded | International Union of Muslim Scholars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Yusuf al-Qaradawi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Yusuf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Islamism
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Sunni revivalism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Islamist political thought
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contemporary Islamic jurisprudence ⓘ influential fatwas ⓘ television program Al Jazeera Sharia and Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Arabic ⓘ |
| memberOf | Muslim Brotherhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Egyptian ⓘ |
| notableIdea | wasatiyya (centrist) approach in Islam ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Al-Halal wal-Haram fil-Islam
NERFINISHED
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Fiqh al-Zakat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Islamic scholar
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author ⓘ cleric ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Doha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars
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Dean of the Faculty of Sharia at Qatar University ⓘ |
| programPresented | Sharia and Life NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousMovement | Muslim Brotherhood NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Doha NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Yusuf al-Qaradawi Description of subject: Yusuf al-Qaradawi was a prominent Egyptian Islamic scholar and influential Sunni cleric known for his role in contemporary Islamic jurisprudence, his leadership within the Muslim Brotherhood’s intellectual sphere, and his widely broadcast religious programs.
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