Khomeyn, Iran
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Khomeyn, Iran is a small town in Markazi Province best known as the birthplace of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Khomeyn, Iran canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5168135 — 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: Khomeyn, Iran Context triple: [Ruhollah Khomeini, birthPlace, Khomeyn, Iran]
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary leader who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its paramount political and religious authority after the 1979 revolution.
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B.
Shah of Iran
The Shah of Iran was the hereditary monarch and head of state of Iran, wielding supreme political and religious authority until the monarchy’s abolition in 1979.
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Astan Quds Razavi
Astan Quds Razavi is a major Iranian religious and charitable foundation centered on the Imam Reza shrine complex in Mashhad, overseeing extensive religious, cultural, and economic activities.
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D.
Fedallah
Fedallah is a mysterious, prophetic Parsee harpooner who serves as Captain Ahab’s shadowy confidant in Herman Melville’s novel *Moby-Dick*.
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E.
Rahbar
Rahbar is the title commonly used for the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country's highest political and religious authority.
- 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: Khomeyn, Iran Target entity description: Khomeyn, Iran is a small town in Markazi Province best known as the birthplace of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
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A.
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary leader who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its paramount political and religious authority after the 1979 revolution.
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B.
Shah of Iran
The Shah of Iran was the hereditary monarch and head of state of Iran, wielding supreme political and religious authority until the monarchy’s abolition in 1979.
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C.
Astan Quds Razavi
Astan Quds Razavi is a major Iranian religious and charitable foundation centered on the Imam Reza shrine complex in Mashhad, overseeing extensive religious, cultural, and economic activities.
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D.
Fedallah
Fedallah is a mysterious, prophetic Parsee harpooner who serves as Captain Ahab’s shadowy confidant in Herman Melville’s novel *Moby-Dick*.
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E.
Rahbar
Rahbar is the title commonly used for the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country's highest political and religious authority.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: Khomeyn, Iran Description of subject: Khomeyn, Iran is a small town in Markazi Province best known as the birthplace of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.