Sahl
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Sahl was a prominent early Muslim mystic and ascetic, best known as Sahl al-Tustari, whose teachings significantly influenced Sufi thought.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sahl canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7859957 — 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: Sahl Context triple: [Sahl al-Tustari, givenName, Sahl]
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A.
Sahl
Sahl is the surname of Mort Sahl, a pioneering American political satirist and stand-up comedian known for his sharp, socially conscious humor.
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B.
Sa'ir
Sa'ir is a Palestinian town located in the southern West Bank, northeast of Hebron.
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C.
Sahnun
Sahnun was a prominent 9th-century Islamic jurist from North Africa whose compilation of legal opinions, the Mudawwana, became a foundational text of the Maliki school of Sunni jurisprudence.
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D.
Saqilatuh
Saqilatuh is a town located within Egypt’s Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt.
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E.
Saharidj
Saharidj is a town located in Bouira Province in northern Algeria.
- 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: Sahl Target entity description: Sahl was a prominent early Muslim mystic and ascetic, best known as Sahl al-Tustari, whose teachings significantly influenced Sufi thought.
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A.
Sahl
Sahl is the surname of Mort Sahl, a pioneering American political satirist and stand-up comedian known for his sharp, socially conscious humor.
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B.
Sa'ir
Sa'ir is a Palestinian town located in the southern West Bank, northeast of Hebron.
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C.
Sahnun
Sahnun was a prominent 9th-century Islamic jurist from North Africa whose compilation of legal opinions, the Mudawwana, became a foundational text of the Maliki school of Sunni jurisprudence.
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D.
Saqilatuh
Saqilatuh is a town located within Egypt’s Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt.
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E.
Saharidj
Saharidj is a town located in Bouira Province in northern Algeria.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic theologian
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Muslim mystic ⓘ Quran commentator ⓘ ascetic ⓘ early Islamic mystic ⓘ |
| activeIn | 9th century ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Iran
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Khuzestan ⓘ Shushtar ⓘ Tustar ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Abbasid Caliphate ⓘ |
| diedIn | Basra ⓘ |
| era | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic theology
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Quranic exegesis ⓘ Sufism ⓘ asceticism ⓘ |
| fullName |
Abu Muhammad Sahl ibn Abd Allah al-Tustari
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linked to:
Sahl al-Tustari
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| givenName | Sahl ⓘ |
| influenced |
Abd al-Karim al-Qushayri
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linked to:
ʿAbd al-Karim ibn Hawazin al-Qushayri
Abu Nasr al-Sarraj ⓘ Abu Talib al-Makki ⓘ al-Hallaj ⓘ
linked to:
al‑Hallaj
classical Sufi manuals ⓘ later Sufi metaphysics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Hadith
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Quran ⓘ early ascetic tradition of Basra ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early systematic Sufi teachings
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emphasis on constant remembrance of God ⓘ emphasis on inner meanings of the Quran ⓘ extreme ascetic practices ⓘ influential Quran commentary ⓘ |
| kunya | Abu Muhammad ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| movement | Sufism ⓘ |
| name | Sahl al-Tustari ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
doctrine of continuous divine watchfulness (muraqaba)
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doctrine of inner light of faith ⓘ stress on spiritual hunger and night vigil ⓘ |
| notableWork | Tafsir al-Tustari ⓘ |
| occupation |
Quran exegete
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Sufi master ⓘ religious scholar ⓘ |
| region | Iraq ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousBranch | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| schoolOfThought | early Baghdadi–Khurasani Sufi tradition ⓘ |
| tradition |
Sunni Sufism
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linked to:
Sufism
|
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: Sahl Description of subject: Sahl was a prominent early Muslim mystic and ascetic, best known as Sahl al-Tustari, whose teachings significantly influenced Sufi thought.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.