Nawaf Salam
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Nawaf Salam is a Lebanese diplomat, jurist, and former UN ambassador who serves as President of the International Court of Justice.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nawaf Salam canonical | 2 |
| Ghassan Salamé | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T877706 — 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: Nawaf Salam Context triple: [President of the International Court of Justice, currentOfficeHolder, Nawaf Salam]
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A.
Sari Nusseibeh
Sari Nusseibeh is a prominent Palestinian philosopher, academic, and political figure known for his advocacy of nonviolence and a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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B.
Abdullah Hammoud
Abdullah Hammoud is an American politician who became the first Arab American and Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, known for his progressive policies and advocacy for public health and civil rights.
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C.
Wissam Al Mana
Wissam Al Mana is a Qatari businessman and executive known for his leadership in the Al Mana Group, a major Middle Eastern retail and investment conglomerate.
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D.
Hassan Aref
Hassan Aref was a prominent physicist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics, particularly in vortex dynamics and chaotic advection.
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E.
Rafiq al-Natsheh
Rafiq al-Natsheh is a Palestinian politician who has held senior leadership roles in Palestinian governance and within the Fatah movement.
- 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: Nawaf Salam Target entity description: Nawaf Salam is a Lebanese diplomat, jurist, and former UN ambassador who serves as President of the International Court of Justice.
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A.
Sari Nusseibeh
Sari Nusseibeh is a prominent Palestinian philosopher, academic, and political figure known for his advocacy of nonviolence and a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
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B.
Abdullah Hammoud
Abdullah Hammoud is an American politician who became the first Arab American and Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, known for his progressive policies and advocacy for public health and civil rights.
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C.
Wissam Al Mana
Wissam Al Mana is a Qatari businessman and executive known for his leadership in the Al Mana Group, a major Middle Eastern retail and investment conglomerate.
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D.
Hassan Aref
Hassan Aref was a prominent physicist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics, particularly in vortex dynamics and chaotic advection.
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E.
Rafiq al-Natsheh
Rafiq al-Natsheh is a Palestinian politician who has held senior leadership roles in Palestinian governance and within the Fatah movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lebanese politician
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academic ⓘ diplomat ⓘ human ⓘ judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ political scientist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Lebanon ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-12-15 ⓘ |
| degree | PhD in political science ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
American University of Beirut
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Harvard University ⓘ Sciences Po ⓘ Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas ⓘ
surface form:
Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas
|
| employer |
American University of Beirut
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International Court of Justice ⓘ |
| familyName | Salam ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
international law
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international relations ⓘ political science ⓘ |
| givenName | Nawaf ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
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English ⓘ French ⓘ |
| memberOf |
International Court of Justice
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Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations ⓘ
surface form:
Lebanese delegation to the United Nations
|
| name | Nawaf Salam self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Lebanese ⓘ |
| notableWork |
publications on international law and the United Nations
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writings on Lebanese politics and constitutional law ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| officeEndTime | as Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the UN: 2017 ⓘ |
| officeStartTime |
2018-02-06
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as Judge of the International Court of Justice: 2018-02-06 ⓘ as Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the UN: 2007 ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Beirut
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Lebanon ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Ambassador of Lebanon to the United Nations
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Judge of the International Court of Justice ⓘ Lebanese Ambassador to the United Nations ⓘ
surface form:
Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations
President of the International Court of Justice ⓘ |
| relative |
Saeb Salam
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Tammam Salam ⓘ |
| religion | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| residence | The Hague ⓘ |
| workLocation |
New York City
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The Hague ⓘ |
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: Nawaf Salam Description of subject: Nawaf Salam is a Lebanese diplomat, jurist, and former UN ambassador who serves as President of the International Court of Justice.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Université Saint-Joseph de Beyrouth
this entity surface form:
Ghassan Salamé