ibn Idris
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Ibn Idris is the patronymic of the influential early Islamic jurist and theologian Al-Shafi'i, founder of the Shafi'i school of Sunni law.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7129491 — 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 Idris Context triple: [Al-Shafi'i, patronymic, ibn Idris]
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A.
Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab was an influential 10th–11th century Persian calligrapher renowned for refining and codifying classical Arabic scripts, particularly in Qur’anic manuscripts.
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B.
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini was a prominent 10th-century Islamic theologian and Shafi'i jurist known for his influential role in the development of Ash'ari kalam.
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C.
Abu Idris al-Khawlani
Abu Idris al-Khawlani was a prominent early Muslim scholar and jurist of the Tabi'un generation, known for his piety and transmission of hadith from leading Companions.
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D.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy was a 14th-century Andalusian scholar and writer best known for compiling and editing the famous travel account of the explorer Ibn Battuta.
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E.
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.
- 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 Idris Target entity description: Ibn Idris is the patronymic of the influential early Islamic jurist and theologian Al-Shafi'i, founder of the Shafi'i school of Sunni law.
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A.
Ibn al-Bawwab
Ibn al-Bawwab was an influential 10th–11th century Persian calligrapher renowned for refining and codifying classical Arabic scripts, particularly in Qur’anic manuscripts.
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B.
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini was a prominent 10th-century Islamic theologian and Shafi'i jurist known for his influential role in the development of Ash'ari kalam.
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C.
Abu Idris al-Khawlani
Abu Idris al-Khawlani was a prominent early Muslim scholar and jurist of the Tabi'un generation, known for his piety and transmission of hadith from leading Companions.
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D.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy was a 14th-century Andalusian scholar and writer best known for compiling and editing the famous travel account of the explorer Ibn Battuta.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (23)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic jurist
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Sunni scholar ⓘ madhhab ⓘ mujtahid ⓘ patronymic ⓘ person ⓘ |
| denomination |
Sunni Islam
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Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
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Islamic theology ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Al-Shafi'i ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Shafi'i school of Sunni law
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linked to:
Shafi'i school
|
| hasPatronymic |
Ibn Idris
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linked to:
ibn Idris
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| influenced |
Shafi'i madhhab
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linked to:
Shafi'i school
Sunni legal theory ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| meaning | son of Idris ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Al-Shafi'i ⓘ |
| notableFor | systematizing usul al-fiqh ⓘ |
| refersTo | Al-Shafi'i ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
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Islam ⓘ |
| usedAs | name element ⓘ |
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 Idris Description of subject: Ibn Idris is the patronymic of the influential early Islamic jurist and theologian Al-Shafi'i, founder of the Shafi'i school of Sunni law.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.