Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
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Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was a prominent Iranian cleric, jurist, and politician who served in several top leadership roles within the Islamic Republic, including as head of the judiciary.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5168037 — 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: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Context triple: [Expediency Discernment Council, formerChairperson, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi]
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A.
Homayoun Ershadi
Homayoun Ershadi is an Iranian actor best known internationally for his roles in films such as "The Kite Runner" and Abbas Kiarostami's "Taste of Cherry."
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B.
Sattar Hashemi
Sattar Hashemi is an Iranian professional known as a notable alumnus of Sharif University of Technology, one of Iran’s leading engineering and science institutions.
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C.
Mohammad Reza Hafezi
Mohammad Reza Hafezi is an Iranian architect best known for designing Tehran’s landmark Milad Tower, one of the tallest towers in the world.
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D.
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi was an influential Iranian educator and academic administrator known for his pivotal role in modernizing Iran’s higher education system.
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E.
Fowzi Badavi Nejad
Fowzi Badavi Nejad is a former gunman best known as the only surviving member of the group that seized the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.
- 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: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Target entity description: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was a prominent Iranian cleric, jurist, and politician who served in several top leadership roles within the Islamic Republic, including as head of the judiciary.
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A.
Homayoun Ershadi
Homayoun Ershadi is an Iranian actor best known internationally for his roles in films such as "The Kite Runner" and Abbas Kiarostami's "Taste of Cherry."
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B.
Sattar Hashemi
Sattar Hashemi is an Iranian professional known as a notable alumnus of Sharif University of Technology, one of Iran’s leading engineering and science institutions.
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C.
Mohammad Reza Hafezi
Mohammad Reza Hafezi is an Iranian architect best known for designing Tehran’s landmark Milad Tower, one of the tallest towers in the world.
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D.
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi was an influential Iranian educator and academic administrator known for his pivotal role in modernizing Iran’s higher education system.
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E.
Fowzi Badavi Nejad
Fowzi Badavi Nejad is a former gunman best known as the only surviving member of the group that seized the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian cleric
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Iranian politician ⓘ Islamic jurist ⓘ Shiite cleric ⓘ human ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Ali Khamenei GENERATED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1948-08-08 GENERATED ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Iraq
GENERATED
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Najaf GENERATED ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Iran
GENERATED
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Qom GENERATED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer GENERATED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Iran
GENERATED
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Iraq GENERATED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 2018-12-24 GENERATED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
seminary of Najaf
GENERATED
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seminary of Qom GENERATED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Iranian GENERATED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hashemi Shahroudi GENERATED ⓘ |
| givenName | Mahmoud GENERATED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix |
Ayatollah
GENERATED
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Grand Ayatollah GENERATED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Islamism
GENERATED
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Velayat-e faqih GENERATED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
GENERATED
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Persian GENERATED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Assembly of Experts
GENERATED
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Expediency Discernment Council GENERATED ⓘ Guardian Council GENERATED ⓘ Society of Seminary Teachers of Qom GENERATED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Islamic jurisprudential writings GENERATED ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 2009-08-14 GENERATED ⓘ |
| officeStart | 1999-08-14 GENERATED ⓘ |
| partOf | Islamic Republic of Iran political system GENERATED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Iran
GENERATED
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Tehran GENERATED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council
GENERATED
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Deputy Speaker of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq GENERATED ⓘ First Vice Chairman of the Assembly of Experts GENERATED ⓘ Head of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran GENERATED ⓘ Head of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Seminaries of Iran GENERATED ⓘ Member of the Assembly of Experts GENERATED ⓘ Member of the Guardian Council GENERATED ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
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Shia Islam ⓘ |
| studiedUnder |
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
GENERATED
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Mohammad Baqir al-Sadr GENERATED ⓘ |
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: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi Description of subject: Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was a prominent Iranian cleric, jurist, and politician who served in several top leadership roles within the Islamic Republic, including as head of the judiciary.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.