Samir Geagea
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Samir Geagea is a prominent Lebanese Christian political leader and former militia commander who heads the Lebanese Forces party and played a major role in post-civil war Lebanese politics.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Samir Geagea canonical | 12 |
| Geagea | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5523322 — 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: Samir Geagea Context triple: [Cedar Revolution, keyFigure, Samir Geagea]
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A.
Najib Mikati
Najib Mikati is a Lebanese billionaire businessman and politician who has served multiple terms as Lebanon’s prime minister.
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B.
Taymour Jumblatt
Taymour Jumblatt is a Lebanese Druze politician and heir to the leadership of the Progressive Socialist Party, succeeding his father Walid Jumblatt.
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C.
Walid Jumblatt
Walid Jumblatt is a prominent Lebanese politician and long-time leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, widely recognized as one of the most influential figures of the Druze community in Lebanon.
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D.
Émile Lahoud
Émile Lahoud is a Lebanese military officer and politician who served as President of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007.
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E.
Kamal Jumblatt
Kamal Jumblatt was a prominent Lebanese Druze leader, socialist thinker, and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party who played a major role in Lebanon’s mid-20th-century politics and civil war era.
- 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: Samir Geagea Target entity description: Samir Geagea is a prominent Lebanese Christian political leader and former militia commander who heads the Lebanese Forces party and played a major role in post-civil war Lebanese politics.
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A.
Najib Mikati
Najib Mikati is a Lebanese billionaire businessman and politician who has served multiple terms as Lebanon’s prime minister.
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B.
Taymour Jumblatt
Taymour Jumblatt is a Lebanese Druze politician and heir to the leadership of the Progressive Socialist Party, succeeding his father Walid Jumblatt.
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C.
Walid Jumblatt
Walid Jumblatt is a prominent Lebanese politician and long-time leader of the Progressive Socialist Party, widely recognized as one of the most influential figures of the Druze community in Lebanon.
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D.
Émile Lahoud
Émile Lahoud is a Lebanese military officer and politician who served as President of Lebanon from 1998 to 2007.
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E.
Kamal Jumblatt
Kamal Jumblatt was a prominent Lebanese Druze leader, socialist thinker, and founder of the Progressive Socialist Party who played a major role in Lebanon’s mid-20th-century politics and civil war era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lebanese person
ⓘ
human ⓘ military commander ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| activeIn | Lebanese politics ⓘ |
| citizenship | Lebanese ⓘ |
| conflict | Lebanese Civil War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Lebanon ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Maronite Christian
ⓘ
linked to:
Maronite Christianity
|
| familyName |
Geagea
ⓘ
linked to:
Samir Geagea
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| givenName | Samir ⓘ |
| hasBeenImprisoned | true ⓘ |
| hasRole |
party leader
ⓘ
warlord during Lebanese Civil War ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Sethrida Geagea ⓘ |
| hasSupportBase | Lebanese Christian constituencies ⓘ |
| ideology |
Lebanese nationalism
ⓘ
anti-Syrian intervention in Lebanon ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Lebanese Civil War dynamics ⓘ |
| involvedIn | post-Taif Agreement political process in Lebanon ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
ⓘ
Lebanese Arabic ⓘ
linked to:
Levantine Arabic
|
| laterOutcome | released from prison after political changes in Lebanon ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Lebanese Forces ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Lebanese Forces militia
ⓘ
linked to:
Lebanese Forces
|
| movement | March 14 Alliance ⓘ |
| name | Samir Geagea ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leadership of the Lebanese Forces militia during the Lebanese Civil War
ⓘ
role in post-civil war Lebanese politics ⓘ |
| occupation |
militia commander
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| opposes | Syrian influence in Lebanon ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
Christian political movement
ⓘ
right-wing ⓘ |
| positionHeld | leader of the Lebanese Forces ⓘ |
| reasonForImprisonment | civil war–related charges in post-war Lebanon ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Beirut
ⓘ
Mount Lebanon ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
ⓘ
Maronite Church ⓘ
linked to:
Maronite Christianity
|
| residence | Lebanon ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfInfluence | Lebanese Christian community ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | politician ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
human rights and transitional justice debates in Lebanon
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political analyses of Lebanese Civil War ⓘ |
| typeOfLeader | sectarian political leader ⓘ |
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: Samir Geagea Description of subject: Samir Geagea is a prominent Lebanese Christian political leader and former militia commander who heads the Lebanese Forces party and played a major role in post-civil war Lebanese politics.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.