Raif Badawi
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Raif Badawi is a Saudi writer and activist known for founding the "Free Saudi Liberals" website and for his imprisonment and flogging on charges related to his advocacy for free expression.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Raif Badawi canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4581928 — 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: Raif Badawi Context triple: [PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, notableRecipient, Raif Badawi]
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A.
Akhtar Mansour
Akhtar Mansour was a senior Afghan Taliban commander who became the group's de facto leader after Mullah Omar and was killed in a 2016 U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.
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B.
Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim is an Egyptian internet activist and former Google executive who became widely known for his influential online role in mobilizing and organizing protests during Egypt’s 2011 revolution.
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C.
Mohammed al-Halbousi
Mohammed al-Halbousi is an Iraqi politician who has served as the speaker of Iraq’s Council of Representatives and is a prominent Sunni political figure in the country.
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D.
Taha Yassin Ramadan
Taha Yassin Ramadan was an Iraqi politician who served as one of Saddam Hussein’s closest aides and as Vice President of Iraq before being convicted and executed for crimes against humanity after the fall of his regime.
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E.
Marwan al-Himar
Marwan al-Himar, better known as Marwan II, was the last Umayyad caliph who ruled from 744 to 750 CE before the dynasty was overthrown by the Abbasid Revolution.
- 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: Raif Badawi Target entity description: Raif Badawi is a Saudi writer and activist known for founding the "Free Saudi Liberals" website and for his imprisonment and flogging on charges related to his advocacy for free expression.
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A.
Akhtar Mansour
Akhtar Mansour was a senior Afghan Taliban commander who became the group's de facto leader after Mullah Omar and was killed in a 2016 U.S. drone strike in Pakistan.
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B.
Wael Ghonim
Wael Ghonim is an Egyptian internet activist and former Google executive who became widely known for his influential online role in mobilizing and organizing protests during Egypt’s 2011 revolution.
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C.
Mohammed al-Halbousi
Mohammed al-Halbousi is an Iraqi politician who has served as the speaker of Iraq’s Council of Representatives and is a prominent Sunni political figure in the country.
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D.
Taha Yassin Ramadan
Taha Yassin Ramadan was an Iraqi politician who served as one of Saddam Hussein’s closest aides and as Vice President of Iraq before being convicted and executed for crimes against humanity after the fall of his regime.
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E.
Marwan al-Himar
Marwan al-Himar, better known as Marwan II, was the last Umayyad caliph who ruled from 744 to 750 CE before the dynasty was overthrown by the Abbasid Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
activist
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blogger ⓘ human ⓘ prisoner of conscience ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
freedom of expression
ⓘ
liberal social reforms in Saudi Arabia ⓘ separation of religion and state ⓘ |
| arrestedBy |
Saudi authorities
ⓘ
linked to:
Saudi government agencies
|
| arrestedIn | 2012 ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Courage Award from various human rights organizations
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Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Prize ⓘ Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought ⓘ |
| cause | human rights in Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| chargedWith |
apostasy (initially, later dropped)
ⓘ
founding a liberal website ⓘ insulting Islam ⓘ |
| convictedOf | insulting Islam through electronic channels ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1984-01-13 ⓘ |
| detainedFor | peaceful expression of opinions ⓘ |
| familyName | Badawi ⓘ |
| firstFloggingDate | 2015-01-09 ⓘ |
| founded | Free Saudi Liberals ⓘ |
| givenName |
Raif
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linked to:
Rauf
|
| hasChild |
Miriam Badawi
ⓘ
Najwa Badawi ⓘ Terad Badawi ⓘ |
| hasOnlinePresence |
Free Saudi Liberals website
ⓘ
linked to:
Free Saudi Liberals
|
| hasRelative | Ensaf Haidar ⓘ |
| imprisonedIn | Saudi Arabia ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Arabic ⓘ |
| movement |
human rights activism
ⓘ
liberalism ⓘ |
| name | Raif Badawi ⓘ |
| notableFor |
advocacy for freedom of expression in Saudi Arabia
ⓘ
founding the website Free Saudi Liberals ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
ⓘ
blogger ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Khobar ⓘ |
| recognizedAsPrisonerOfConscienceBy | Amnesty International ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| sentencedTo |
10 years in prison
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1000 lashes ⓘ a large monetary fine ⓘ |
| spouse | Ensaf Haidar ⓘ |
| subjectOf | international human rights campaigns ⓘ |
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: Raif Badawi Description of subject: Raif Badawi is a Saudi writer and activist known for founding the "Free Saudi Liberals" website and for his imprisonment and flogging on charges related to his advocacy for free expression.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.