Reza Shah Pahlavi
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Reza Shah Pahlavi was the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the modernizing monarch of Iran who ruled from 1925 until his abdication in 1941.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reza Shah Pahlavi canonical | 36 |
| Reza Khan | 3 |
| Reza Shah the Great | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T986691 — 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: Reza Shah Pahlavi Context triple: [Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, father, Reza Shah Pahlavi]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Rahbar
Rahbar is the title commonly used for the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country's highest political and religious authority.
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D.
Ruhollah Khomeini
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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E.
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.
- 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: Reza Shah Pahlavi Target entity description: Reza Shah Pahlavi was the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the modernizing monarch of Iran who ruled from 1925 until his abdication in 1941.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
Rahbar
Rahbar is the title commonly used for the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country's highest political and religious authority.
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D.
Ruhollah Khomeini
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Reza Shah Pahlavi Description of subject: Reza Shah Pahlavi was the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty and the modernizing monarch of Iran who ruled from 1925 until his abdication in 1941.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Reza Khan
this entity surface form:
Reza Khan
this entity surface form:
Reza Shah the Great
this entity surface form:
Reza Khan