Khosrowshahi
E175758
Iranian-American person
Persian-language surname
business executive
businessperson
chief executive officer
city
human
online travel company
private research university
surname
technology company
Khosrowshahi is a Persian surname most prominently associated with Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian-American business executive and CEO of Uber.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Khosrowshahi canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1549301 — 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: Khosrowshahi Context triple: [Dara Khosrowshahi, familyName, Khosrowshahi]
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A.
Kay Khosrow
Kay Khosrow is a legendary, just, and spiritually enlightened king of Iran in Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh, renowned for avenging his father and then renouncing his throne to vanish mysteriously.
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B.
Eskandar
Eskandar is a Persian and Arabic form of the name Alexander, commonly used in historical and literary contexts to refer to Alexander the Great.
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C.
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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D.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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E.
Fereydun
Fereydun is a legendary hero and king in Persian mythology, best known from the Shahnameh for overthrowing the tyrant Zahhak and ushering in a just reign.
- 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: Khosrowshahi Target entity description: Khosrowshahi is a Persian surname most prominently associated with Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian-American business executive and CEO of Uber.
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A.
Kay Khosrow
Kay Khosrow is a legendary, just, and spiritually enlightened king of Iran in Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh, renowned for avenging his father and then renouncing his throne to vanish mysteriously.
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B.
Eskandar
Eskandar is a Persian and Arabic form of the name Alexander, commonly used in historical and literary contexts to refer to Alexander the Great.
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C.
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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D.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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E.
Fereydun
Fereydun is a legendary hero and king in Persian mythology, best known from the Shahnameh for overthrowing the tyrant Zahhak and ushering in a just reign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian-American person
ⓘ
Persian-language surname ⓘ business executive ⓘ businessperson ⓘ chief executive officer ⓘ city ⓘ city ⓘ human ⓘ online travel company ⓘ private research university ⓘ surname ⓘ technology company ⓘ |
| boardMemberOf | Expedia Group ⓘ |
| country |
Iran
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
Iran ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1969-05-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Brown University ⓘ |
| employer |
Uber
ⓘ
surface form:
Uber Technologies, Inc.
|
| ethnicGroup |
Iranian peoples
ⓘ
surface form:
Iranian
Iranian peoples ⓘ
surface form:
Iranian
|
| familyName |
Khosrowshahi
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
Khosrowshahi self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
computer science
ⓘ
electrical engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | Dara ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Dara Khosrowshahi
ⓘ
Hassan Khosrowshahi ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Francisco ⓘ |
| industry |
food delivery
ⓘ
online travel ⓘ ride-hailing ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Persian ⓘ |
| occupation |
business executive
ⓘ
entrepreneur ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tehran ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
CEO of Expedia Group
ⓘ
CEO of Uber ⓘ |
| previousEmployer | Expedia Group ⓘ |
| relative | Hassan Khosrowshahi ⓘ |
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: Khosrowshahi Description of subject: Khosrowshahi is a Persian surname most prominently associated with Dara Khosrowshahi, the Iranian-American business executive and CEO of Uber.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Dara Khosrowshahi
subject surface form:
Hassan Khosrowshahi