Maajid Nawaz
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Maajid Nawaz is a British activist, author, and former Islamist who became known for his work on counter-extremism and his advocacy of secular liberal values.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maajid Nawaz canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8578358 — 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: Maajid Nawaz Context triple: [Sam Harris, coAuthor, Maajid Nawaz]
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A.
Javid Iqbal
Javid Iqbal was a Pakistani jurist, philosopher, and senior judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, known also as the son of poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
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B.
Tariq Anwar
Tariq Anwar is a British film editor known for his acclaimed work on numerous major films, including the Academy Award–winning drama "The King’s Speech."
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C.
Junaid Khan
Junaid Khan is the son of Indian actor Aamir Khan and has begun pursuing a career in acting and filmmaking.
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D.
Asif Iqbal
Asif Iqbal is a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and British resident who challenged his detention in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Rasul v. Bush.
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E.
Majeed Amjad
Majeed Amjad was a prominent 20th-century Urdu poet known for his introspective, modernist verse and significant contribution to Pakistani literature.
- 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: Maajid Nawaz Target entity description: Maajid Nawaz is a British activist, author, and former Islamist who became known for his work on counter-extremism and his advocacy of secular liberal values.
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A.
Javid Iqbal
Javid Iqbal was a Pakistani jurist, philosopher, and senior judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, known also as the son of poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
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B.
Tariq Anwar
Tariq Anwar is a British film editor known for his acclaimed work on numerous major films, including the Academy Award–winning drama "The King’s Speech."
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C.
Junaid Khan
Junaid Khan is the son of Indian actor Aamir Khan and has begun pursuing a career in acting and filmmaking.
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D.
Asif Iqbal
Asif Iqbal is a former Guantánamo Bay detainee and British resident who challenged his detention in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Rasul v. Bush.
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E.
Majeed Amjad
Majeed Amjad was a prominent 20th-century Urdu poet known for his introspective, modernist verse and significant contribution to Pakistani literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
counter-extremism activist
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human ⓘ political activist ⓘ radio presenter ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Sam Harris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounderOf | Quilliam Foundation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1978-11-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | London School of Economics ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Pakistani ⓘ |
| familyName | Nawaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
counter-extremism
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human rights ⓘ liberalism ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| formerIdeology | Islamism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerMemberOf | Hizb ut-Tahrir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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political commentary ⓘ |
| givenName | Maajid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| hostedProgram | LBC radio show ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy of secular liberal values
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countering Islamist extremism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Urdu language ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
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| movement |
counter-jihadism
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liberalism ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| name | Maajid Nawaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea | separation of religion and state ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Islam and the Future of Tolerance
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Radical: My Journey out of Islamist Extremism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
activist
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author ⓘ public speaker ⓘ radio host ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Southend-on-Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | classical liberalism ⓘ |
| positionHeld | chairman of Quilliam Foundation ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| spouse | Rabia Nawaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| twitterUsername | @MaajidNawaz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maajid Nawaz Description of subject: Maajid Nawaz is a British activist, author, and former Islamist who became known for his work on counter-extremism and his advocacy of secular liberal values.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.