al-Qaeda
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al-Qaeda is a militant Islamist extremist organization known for orchestrating major terrorist attacks worldwide, including the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
All labels observed (17)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T208288 — 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: al-Qaeda Context triple: [Global War on Terrorism, primaryAdversary, al-Qaeda]
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda in Iraq was a Sunni Islamist militant organization that emerged after the 2003 U.S. invasion, becoming one of the most violent insurgent groups in the country and a precursor to the Islamic State (ISIS).
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B.
Abdul Rahman Azzam
Abdul Rahman Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, nationalist, and statesman best known for serving as the founding Secretary-General of the Arab League and advocating Arab unity in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Inter-American Committee against Terrorism
The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism is a specialized body of the Organization of American States that coordinates regional efforts to prevent, combat, and respond to terrorism across the Americas.
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Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is an international organization that brings together Muslim-majority countries to promote political, economic, and social cooperation and to represent the collective voice of the Islamic world.
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Office of Counter-Terrorism
The Office of Counter-Terrorism is a United Nations body responsible for leading and coordinating the organization’s efforts to prevent and combat terrorism worldwide.
- 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: al-Qaeda Target entity description: al-Qaeda is a militant Islamist extremist organization known for orchestrating major terrorist attacks worldwide, including the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
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A.
al-Qaeda in Iraq
Al-Qaeda in Iraq was a Sunni Islamist militant organization that emerged after the 2003 U.S. invasion, becoming one of the most violent insurgent groups in the country and a precursor to the Islamic State (ISIS).
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B.
Abdul Rahman Azzam
Abdul Rahman Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, nationalist, and statesman best known for serving as the founding Secretary-General of the Arab League and advocating Arab unity in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Inter-American Committee against Terrorism
The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism is a specialized body of the Organization of American States that coordinates regional efforts to prevent, combat, and respond to terrorism across the Americas.
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D.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is an international organization that brings together Muslim-majority countries to promote political, economic, and social cooperation and to represent the collective voice of the Islamic world.
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E.
Office of Counter-Terrorism
The Office of Counter-Terrorism is a United Nations body responsible for leading and coordinating the organization’s efforts to prevent and combat terrorism worldwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: al-Qaeda Description of subject: al-Qaeda is a militant Islamist extremist organization known for orchestrating major terrorist attacks worldwide, including the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
Referenced by (127)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
al-Qaeda was responsible for planning and executing the September 11 attacks
this entity surface form:
al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent
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al-Qaeda (historically)
this entity surface form:
Al-Qaeda
this entity surface form:
founding al-Qaeda
this entity surface form:
Al-Qaeda
subject surface form:
Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
this entity surface form:
al-Qaeda network
subject surface form:
Zero Dark Thirty
this entity surface form:
Al-Qaeda
this entity surface form:
al-Qaeda network
this entity surface form:
al-Qaeda network
this entity surface form:
al-Qaeda central leadership