Ruhollah Khomeini
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Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary leader who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its paramount political and religious authority after the 1979 revolution.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruhollah Khomeini canonical | 25 |
| Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | 3 |
| Ayatollah Khomeini | 1 |
| Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | 1 |
| Khomeini | 1 |
| Ruhollah | 1 |
| Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986626 — 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: Ruhollah Khomeini Context triple: [Supreme Leader of Iran, firstHolder, Ruhollah Khomeini]
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A.
Parviz Mirza
Parviz Mirza was a Mughal prince of the early 17th century, known as one of Emperor Jahangir’s sons and a contender in the empire’s succession struggles.
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B.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last monarch of Iran, ruling from 1941 until his overthrow in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and was known for his pro-Western policies and ambitious modernization efforts.
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C.
Fedallah
Fedallah is a mysterious, prophetic Parsee harpooner who serves as Captain Ahab’s shadowy confidant in Herman Melville’s novel *Moby-Dick*.
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D.
Khusrav Mirza
Khusrav Mirza was a Mughal prince of the early 17th century, known for rebelling against his father Emperor Jahangir and becoming a focal point in the empire’s succession struggles.
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E.
Sayyid Muhammad
Sayyid Muhammad was a 16th-century architect best known for designing Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, a landmark of early Mughal architecture and a precursor to the Taj Mahal.
- 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: Ruhollah Khomeini Target entity description: Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary leader who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its paramount political and religious authority after the 1979 revolution.
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A.
Parviz Mirza
Parviz Mirza was a Mughal prince of the early 17th century, known as one of Emperor Jahangir’s sons and a contender in the empire’s succession struggles.
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B.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was the last monarch of Iran, ruling from 1941 until his overthrow in the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and was known for his pro-Western policies and ambitious modernization efforts.
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C.
Fedallah
Fedallah is a mysterious, prophetic Parsee harpooner who serves as Captain Ahab’s shadowy confidant in Herman Melville’s novel *Moby-Dick*.
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D.
Khusrav Mirza
Khusrav Mirza was a Mughal prince of the early 17th century, known for rebelling against his father Emperor Jahangir and becoming a focal point in the empire’s succession struggles.
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E.
Sayyid Muhammad
Sayyid Muhammad was a 16th-century architect best known for designing Humayun’s Tomb in Delhi, a landmark of early Mughal architecture and a precursor to the Taj Mahal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Ruhollah Khomeini Description of subject: Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary leader who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its paramount political and religious authority after the 1979 revolution.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Supreme Leader of Iran
this entity surface form:
Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini
this entity surface form:
Ruhollah
this entity surface form:
Khomeini
this entity surface form:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
this entity surface form:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
this entity surface form:
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
subject surface form:
Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport
subject surface form:
Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport
this entity surface form:
Ayatollah Khomeini
this entity surface form:
Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini