Ehsan Yarshater
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Ehsan Yarshater was a prominent Iranian historian and Iranologist best known as the founding editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and a leading scholar of Persian language and literature.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ehsan Yarshater canonical | 2 |
| Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1658520 — 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: Ehsan Yarshater Context triple: [University of Tehran, hasNotableFaculty, Ehsan Yarshater]
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A.
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin is a prominent mechanical engineer and computational fluid dynamicist known for pioneering work in direct numerical simulation of turbulence and for founding Stanford’s Center for Turbulence Research.
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B.
Omid Kordestani
Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
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C.
Farhad Moshiri
Farhad Moshiri is a British-Iranian businessman and investor best known for his majority ownership stake in Premier League football clubs, most notably Everton.
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D.
Jarkas al-Khalili
Jarkas al-Khalili was a prominent Mamluk-era emir whose patronage and commercial ambitions led to the establishment of Cairo’s famous Khan el-Khalili bazaar.
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E.
Arash Ferdowsi
Arash Ferdowsi is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
- 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: Ehsan Yarshater Target entity description: Ehsan Yarshater was a prominent Iranian historian and Iranologist best known as the founding editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and a leading scholar of Persian language and literature.
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A.
Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin is a prominent mechanical engineer and computational fluid dynamicist known for pioneering work in direct numerical simulation of turbulence and for founding Stanford’s Center for Turbulence Research.
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B.
Omid Kordestani
Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
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C.
Farhad Moshiri
Farhad Moshiri is a British-Iranian businessman and investor best known for his majority ownership stake in Premier League football clubs, most notably Everton.
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D.
Jarkas al-Khalili
Jarkas al-Khalili was a prominent Mamluk-era emir whose patronage and commercial ambitions led to the establishment of Cairo’s famous Khan el-Khalili bazaar.
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E.
Arash Ferdowsi
Arash Ferdowsi is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist best known as the co-founder and former CTO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranologist
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academic ⓘ editor ⓘ historian ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Iranian studies
ⓘ
Persian literary studies ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Iran
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Iran ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1920-04-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2018-09-01 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Walter Bruno Henning NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
SOAS University of London
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surface form:
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
University of Tehran ⓘ |
| employer | Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Iranian peoples
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surface form:
Iranian
|
| familyName | Yarshater ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Iranian studies
ⓘ
Persian literature ⓘ history ⓘ linguistics ⓘ |
| founded |
Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University
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Encyclopaedia Iranica ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Ehsan ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | founding editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica ⓘ |
| knownFor |
founding editor of Encyclopaedia Iranica
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scholarship on Persian language ⓘ scholarship on Persian literature ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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German ⓘ Persian ⓘ |
| name | Ehsan Yarshater self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| notableWork | Encyclopaedia Iranica ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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historian ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hamadan ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Ehsan Yarshater
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies
director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University ⓘ |
| religion | secular humanism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| workInstitution | Columbia University ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Ehsan Yarshater Description of subject: Ehsan Yarshater was a prominent Iranian historian and Iranologist best known as the founding editor of the Encyclopaedia Iranica and a leading scholar of Persian language and literature.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies