Taghi Modarressi
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Taghi Modarressi was an Iranian-born psychiatrist and novelist known for his literary works in Persian and his marriage to American author Anne Tyler.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Taghi Modarressi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13561256 — 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: Taghi Modarressi Context triple: [Anne Tyler, spouse, Taghi Modarressi]
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A.
Manouchehr Eghbal
Manouchehr Eghbal was an Iranian physician and politician who served as prime minister under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi during the late 1950s.
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B.
Parviz Davoodi
Parviz Davoodi is an Iranian economist and conservative politician who served as the first vice president of Iran under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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C.
Jafar Tabrizi
Jafar Tabrizi was a prominent Timurid-era Persian artist and calligrapher renowned for his contributions to miniature painting and manuscript illumination.
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D.
Jafar Sharif-Emami
Jafar Sharif-Emami was an Iranian politician and statesman who twice served as prime minister during the Pahlavi era, including in the turbulent months leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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E.
Parviz Sabeti
Parviz Sabeti is an Iranian former high-ranking security official best known for his influential role in the Shah-era intelligence and internal security apparatus before the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- 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: Taghi Modarressi Target entity description: Taghi Modarressi was an Iranian-born psychiatrist and novelist known for his literary works in Persian and his marriage to American author Anne Tyler.
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A.
Manouchehr Eghbal
Manouchehr Eghbal was an Iranian physician and politician who served as prime minister under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi during the late 1950s.
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B.
Parviz Davoodi
Parviz Davoodi is an Iranian economist and conservative politician who served as the first vice president of Iran under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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C.
Jafar Tabrizi
Jafar Tabrizi was a prominent Timurid-era Persian artist and calligrapher renowned for his contributions to miniature painting and manuscript illumination.
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D.
Jafar Sharif-Emami
Jafar Sharif-Emami was an Iranian politician and statesman who twice served as prime minister during the Pahlavi era, including in the turbulent months leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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E.
Parviz Sabeti
Parviz Sabeti is an Iranian former high-ranking security official best known for his influential role in the Shah-era intelligence and internal security apparatus before the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
ⓘ
person ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Modarressi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
psychiatry ⓘ |
| genre | fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Taghi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Persian ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| name | Taghi Modarressi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Persian-language novels
ⓘ
work in psychiatry ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Anne Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWorkLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
psychiatrist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| spouse | Anne Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseName | Anne Tyler NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | novelist ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
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: Taghi Modarressi Description of subject: Taghi Modarressi was an Iranian-born psychiatrist and novelist known for his literary works in Persian and his marriage to American author Anne Tyler.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.