Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
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Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is an Iranian woman whose controversial death sentence for adultery and subsequent international campaign for her release drew widespread global attention to Iran’s human rights and judicial practices.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani canonical | 3 |
| Sakineh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7692989 — 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: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Context triple: [Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani support committee, namedAfter, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani]
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A.
Hedieh Tehrani
Hedieh Tehrani is a prominent Iranian film actress acclaimed for her intense, nuanced performances in contemporary Iranian cinema.
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B.
Sussan Tahmasebi
Sussan Tahmasebi is an Iranian women's rights activist and civil society leader known for her advocacy against discriminatory laws and her role in grassroots reform movements.
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C.
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani is an Iranian feminist writer, journalist, and women’s rights activist known for her leading role in campaigns challenging discriminatory laws against women in Iran.
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D.
Parvin Ardalan
Parvin Ardalan is an Iranian feminist writer and human rights activist known for her leading role in Iran’s women’s rights movement.
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E.
Sediqa Massoud
Sediqa Massoud is the widow of famed Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud and a prominent advocate for women's rights and education in Afghanistan.
- 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: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Target entity description: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is an Iranian woman whose controversial death sentence for adultery and subsequent international campaign for her release drew widespread global attention to Iran’s human rights and judicial practices.
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A.
Hedieh Tehrani
Hedieh Tehrani is a prominent Iranian film actress acclaimed for her intense, nuanced performances in contemporary Iranian cinema.
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B.
Sussan Tahmasebi
Sussan Tahmasebi is an Iranian women's rights activist and civil society leader known for her advocacy against discriminatory laws and her role in grassroots reform movements.
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C.
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani
Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani is an Iranian feminist writer, journalist, and women’s rights activist known for her leading role in campaigns challenging discriminatory laws against women in Iran.
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D.
Parvin Ardalan
Parvin Ardalan is an Iranian feminist writer and human rights activist known for her leading role in Iran’s women’s rights movement.
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E.
Sediqa Massoud
Sediqa Massoud is the widow of famed Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud and a prominent advocate for women's rights and education in Afghanistan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
campaigns against capital punishment
ⓘ
debate over stoning as a punishment in Iran ⓘ women’s rights activism concerning Iran ⓘ |
| causeOfNotability |
controversial stoning sentence for adultery
ⓘ
subject of international human rights campaigns ⓘ |
| charge |
adultery
ⓘ
complicity in the murder of her husband ⓘ |
| child |
Sahar Ghaderzadeh
ⓘ
Sajjad Ghaderzadeh ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Iran ⓘ |
| detainingCountry | Iran ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Azerbaijani people
ⓘ
linked to:
Azərbaycanlılar
|
| familyName | Mohammadi Ashtiani ⓘ |
| givenName |
Sakineh
ⓘ
linked to:
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
|
| hasAdvocate |
Javid Houtan Kiyan
ⓘ
Mohammad Mostafaei ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | housewife ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression |
Azerbaijani
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| legalPenalty |
death sentence
ⓘ
sentence of death by stoning ⓘ |
| legalStatus |
convicted in an Iranian court
ⓘ
subject of sentence review and revisions by Iranian authorities ⓘ |
| legalSystem |
judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
judicial branch of Iran
|
| maritalStatus | widow ⓘ |
| name | Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being sentenced to death in Iran on charges related to adultery
ⓘ
highlighting human rights issues in Iran ⓘ international campaign against her stoning sentence ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 2 ⓘ |
| placeOfDetention | Tabriz Prison ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Tabriz ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
Shia Islam ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Ebrahim Ghaderzadeh ⓘ |
| spouseStatus | deceased ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
diplomatic criticism from several Western governments
ⓘ
global media coverage in 2010 ⓘ statements and campaigns by Amnesty International ⓘ statements and campaigns by Human Rights Watch ⓘ |
| topicOf |
campaigns against stoning as a form of capital punishment
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discussions on due process in Iranian courts ⓘ international debate on Iran’s judicial practices ⓘ |
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: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani Description of subject: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is an Iranian woman whose controversial death sentence for adultery and subsequent international campaign for her release drew widespread global attention to Iran’s human rights and judicial practices.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani