Mostafa Khomeini
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Mostafa Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure, best known as the eldest son and close confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and as a prominent opponent of the Pahlavi monarchy whose mysterious death in 1977 galvanized revolutionary sentiment.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mostafa Khomeini canonical | 6 |
| Sayyid Mostafa Khomeini | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5168167 — 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: Mostafa Khomeini Context triple: [Ruhollah Khomeini, child, Mostafa Khomeini]
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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.
Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country’s highest political and religious authority since 1989.
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C.
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian engineer, pro-democracy politician, and the first prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, known for his moderate and liberal opposition to the Shah and later tensions with the post-revolutionary clerical establishment.
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D.
Abolhassan Banisadr
Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician and economist who became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
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E.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a powerful Iranian cleric, politician, and pragmatist who served as president of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and played a central role in shaping the Islamic Republic’s post-revolution politics and economy.
- 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: Mostafa Khomeini Target entity description: Mostafa Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure, best known as the eldest son and close confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and as a prominent opponent of the Pahlavi monarchy whose mysterious death in 1977 galvanized revolutionary sentiment.
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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.
Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country’s highest political and religious authority since 1989.
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C.
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian engineer, pro-democracy politician, and the first prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, known for his moderate and liberal opposition to the Shah and later tensions with the post-revolutionary clerical establishment.
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D.
Abolhassan Banisadr
Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician and economist who became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
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E.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was a powerful Iranian cleric, politician, and pragmatist who served as president of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and played a central role in shaping the Islamic Republic’s post-revolution politics and economy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian cleric
ⓘ
political figure ⓘ revolutionary activist ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1930-12-12 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Najaf ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
circumstances widely regarded as suspicious by many Iranians
ⓘ
heart attack ⓘ |
| child | Hassan Khomeini ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1977-10-23 ⓘ |
| denomination | Twelver Shia ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Najaf Seminary
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawza of Najaf
Qom Seminary ⓘ
linked to:
Hawza of Qom
|
| ethnicGroup | Persians ⓘ |
| familyName |
Khomeini
ⓘ
linked to:
Ruhollah Khomeini
|
| father | Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
ⓘ
Quranic exegesis ⓘ political theology ⓘ |
| fullName |
Sayyid Mostafa Khomeini
ⓘ
linked to:
Mostafa Khomeini
|
| givenName |
Mostafa
ⓘ
linked to:
Mustafa
|
| honorificPrefix | Sayyid ⓘ |
| inspired | increased opposition to Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi after his death ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| mother | Khadijeh Saqafi ⓘ |
| movement | Iranian Islamic revolutionary movement ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the eldest son of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
ⓘ
his mysterious death in 1977 that galvanized revolutionary sentiment in Iran ⓘ opposition to the Pahlavi monarchy ⓘ |
| occupation |
Islamic scholar
ⓘ
cleric ⓘ mujtahid ⓘ political activist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Imperial State of Iran
ⓘ
Qom ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Iraq
ⓘ
Najaf ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Islamist opposition to the Pahlavi dynasty ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousBranch | Shia Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Najaf
ⓘ
Qom ⓘ |
| roleIn | Iranian Revolution ⓘ |
| sibling | Ahmad Khomeini ⓘ |
| spouse | Hajar Saghafi ⓘ |
| studentOf |
Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei
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Muhsin al-Hakim ⓘ Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ |
| title | Hojjatoleslam ⓘ |
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: Mostafa Khomeini Description of subject: Mostafa Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure, best known as the eldest son and close confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and as a prominent opponent of the Pahlavi monarchy whose mysterious death in 1977 galvanized revolutionary sentiment.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mostafa Khomeini