Avicenna
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Avicenna was an influential Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age, best known for his works in metaphysics and medicine, especially "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine."
All labels observed (8)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Avicenna canonical | 35 |
| Ibn Sina | 21 |
| Ibn Sina (Avicenna) | 3 |
| Avicenna (Ibn Sina) | 2 |
| Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina | 1 |
| Ibn Sīnā | 1 |
| Persian physician Ibn Sina | 1 |
| Persian polymath Ibn Sina | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T650860 — 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.
Target entity: Avicenna Context triple: [Guide for the Perplexed, philosophicalInfluence, Avicenna]
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A.
Al-Farabi
Al-Farabi was a pioneering 10th-century Islamic philosopher and polymath, often called the “Second Teacher” after Aristotle, whose works profoundly shaped medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
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B.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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C.
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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D.
al‑Ghazali
Al-Ghazali was an influential 11th–12th century Persian theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic whose works profoundly shaped Islamic thought and Sufi spirituality.
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E.
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi was a seminal medieval Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet whose metaphysical teachings, especially the doctrine of the "Unity of Being," profoundly shaped Islamic spirituality and thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Avicenna Target entity description: Avicenna was an influential Persian polymath and philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age, best known for his works in metaphysics and medicine, especially "The Book of Healing" and "The Canon of Medicine."
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A.
Al-Farabi
Al-Farabi was a pioneering 10th-century Islamic philosopher and polymath, often called the “Second Teacher” after Aristotle, whose works profoundly shaped medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
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B.
Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam was an 11th–12th century Persian polymath renowned as a poet, mathematician, and astronomer, best known in the West for the Rubáiyát in its English translation.
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C.
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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D.
al‑Ghazali
Al-Ghazali was an influential 11th–12th century Persian theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic whose works profoundly shaped Islamic thought and Sufi spirituality.
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E.
Ibn Arabi
Ibn Arabi was a seminal medieval Sufi mystic, philosopher, and poet whose metaphysical teachings, especially the doctrine of the "Unity of Being," profoundly shaped Islamic spirituality and thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (70)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic Golden Age scholar
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Persian philosopher ⓘ human ⓘ medieval physician ⓘ philosopher ⓘ physician ⓘ polymath ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 980 ⓘ |
| birthName |
Avicenna
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ibn Sina
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| birthPlace |
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
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surface form:
Afshana, near Bukhara
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| contributedTo |
development of clinical pharmacology
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medical education in medieval universities ⓘ systematization of Aristotelian philosophy ⓘ |
| deathDate | June 1037 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Hamadan
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surface form:
Hamadān
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| era | Medieval philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Persian ⓘ |
| field |
astronomy
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chemistry ⓘ logic ⓘ mathematics ⓘ medicine ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ music theory ⓘ philosophy ⓘ |
| fullName |
Avicenna
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abd Allah ibn Sina
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| givenName |
Hussein
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surface form:
Husayn
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| honorificPrefix | Abu Ali ⓘ |
| influenced |
Albert the Great
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surface form:
Albertus Magnus
Islamic philosophy ⓘ Latin scholasticism ⓘ Maimonides ⓘ Suhrawardi ⓘ St. Thomas Aquinas ⓘ
surface form:
Thomas Aquinas
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| influencedBy |
Aristotle
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Galen ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Al-Farabi ⓘ
surface form:
al-Farabi
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| language |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
| latinizedName | Avicenna self-link ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
astronomy
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logic ⓘ mathematics ⓘ medicine ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ natural philosophy ⓘ philosophy ⓘ psychology ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat
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Kitab al-Najat ⓘ The Book of Healing ⓘ The Canon of Medicine ⓘ |
| occupation |
court physician
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vizier ⓘ |
| philosophicalConcept |
Necessary Existent
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distinction between essence and existence ⓘ floating man thought experiment ⓘ |
| region | Islamic Golden Age ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Bukhara, Uzbekistan
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surface form:
Bukhara
Hamadan ⓘ
surface form:
Hamadān
Isfahan ⓘ Ray ⓘ |
| schoolTradition |
Aristotelianism
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surface form:
Avicennism
Islamic philosophy ⓘ Peripatetic school ⓘ
surface form:
Peripatetic philosophy
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| workCharacterization |
The Book of Healing is a philosophical and scientific encyclopedia
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The Canon of Medicine ⓘ
surface form:
The Canon of Medicine served as a standard medical text in Europe and the Islamic world for centuries
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