Navid Negahban
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Navid Negahban is an Iranian-American actor known for his roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Homeland" and various Hollywood productions.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Navid Negahban canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4330530 — 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: Navid Negahban Context triple: [Aladdin (2019 film), castMember, Navid Negahban]
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A.
Bijan Davari
Bijan Davari is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for his pioneering contributions to high-performance CMOS technology and microprocessor design.
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B.
Navid Kermani
Navid Kermani is a German writer, orientalist, and public intellectual known for his essays and novels exploring Islam, European culture, and intercultural dialogue.
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C.
Ali Payami
Ali Payami is a Swedish-Iranian record producer and songwriter known for his work on major pop and electronic hits with artists like The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, and Ariana Grande.
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D.
Johari Amini
Johari Amini is an American poet, writer, and activist associated with the Black Arts Movement and known for her role in fostering Black literature and publishing.
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E.
Darius Alizadeh
Darius Alizadeh is a character appearing in the James Bond continuation novel "Devil May Care" by Sebastian Faulks.
- 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: Navid Negahban Target entity description: Navid Negahban is an Iranian-American actor known for his roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Homeland" and various Hollywood productions.
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A.
Bijan Davari
Bijan Davari is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM researcher known for his pioneering contributions to high-performance CMOS technology and microprocessor design.
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B.
Navid Kermani
Navid Kermani is a German writer, orientalist, and public intellectual known for his essays and novels exploring Islam, European culture, and intercultural dialogue.
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C.
Ali Payami
Ali Payami is a Swedish-Iranian record producer and songwriter known for his work on major pop and electronic hits with artists like The Weeknd, Taylor Swift, and Ariana Grande.
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D.
Johari Amini
Johari Amini is an American poet, writer, and activist associated with the Black Arts Movement and known for her role in fostering Black literature and publishing.
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E.
Darius Alizadeh
Darius Alizadeh is a character appearing in the James Bond continuation novel "Devil May Care" by Sebastian Faulks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
24
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Aladdin (2019 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ American Sniper NERFINISHED ⓘ Brothers (2009 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ CSI: Miami NERFINISHED ⓘ Charlie Wilson's War NERFINISHED ⓘ Damages NERFINISHED ⓘ Homeland NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit NERFINISHED ⓘ Legion NERFINISHED ⓘ Mistresses (U.S. TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ Person of Interest NERFINISHED ⓘ Tehran (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brave NERFINISHED ⓘ The Mentalist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Path NERFINISHED ⓘ The Stoning of Soraya M. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Iran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-06-02 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Iranian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Negahban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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television ⓘ voice acting ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Navid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| name | Navid Negahban NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Iranian-American ⓘ |
| notableFor | portraying Middle Eastern characters in American film and television ⓘ |
| notableWork | Homeland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mashhad, Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedCharacter |
Abu Nazir
NERFINISHED
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Farouk / Shadow King NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sultan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Los Angeles
ⓘ
surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
|
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Navid Negahban Description of subject: Navid Negahban is an Iranian-American actor known for his roles in film and television, including prominent performances in series like "Homeland" and various Hollywood productions.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tehran (TV series)