Ali Hassan al-Majid
E141714
Ali Hassan al-Majid, widely known as "Chemical Ali," was a senior Iraqi Ba'athist military commander and cousin of Saddam Hussein notorious for overseeing brutal campaigns including chemical attacks against Kurdish civilians.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ali Hassan al-Majid canonical | 18 |
| Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti | 1 |
| Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1172884 — 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: Ali Hassan al-Majid Context triple: [Battle of Baghdad (2003), commander, Ali Hassan al-Majid]
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A.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil
Mustafa Abdul Jalil is a Libyan politician and former justice minister who became a leading figure of the opposition and head of the National Transitional Council during the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
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B.
Awni Abd al-Hadi
Awni Abd al-Hadi was a prominent Palestinian Arab nationalist leader, lawyer, and politician who played a key role in early 20th-century anti-colonial and anti-Zionist movements in Palestine.
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C.
Mahmoud Jibril
Mahmoud Jibril was a Libyan politician and technocrat who led the National Transitional Council’s executive board and became a key civilian leader of the opposition during the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
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D.
Abdullah al-Janabi
Abdullah al-Janabi is a radical Iraqi Sunni cleric and insurgent leader known for his prominent role in organizing resistance against U.S.-led forces in Fallujah during the Iraq War.
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E.
Abdel Hakim Amer
Abdel Hakim Amer was an Egyptian military officer and close ally of President Gamal Abdel Nasser who served as Egypt’s top commander during the 1950s and 1960s, playing a central role in key conflicts including the Suez Crisis.
- 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: Ali Hassan al-Majid Target entity description: Ali Hassan al-Majid, widely known as "Chemical Ali," was a senior Iraqi Ba'athist military commander and cousin of Saddam Hussein notorious for overseeing brutal campaigns including chemical attacks against Kurdish civilians.
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A.
Mustafa Abdul Jalil
Mustafa Abdul Jalil is a Libyan politician and former justice minister who became a leading figure of the opposition and head of the National Transitional Council during the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
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B.
Awni Abd al-Hadi
Awni Abd al-Hadi was a prominent Palestinian Arab nationalist leader, lawyer, and politician who played a key role in early 20th-century anti-colonial and anti-Zionist movements in Palestine.
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C.
Mahmoud Jibril
Mahmoud Jibril was a Libyan politician and technocrat who led the National Transitional Council’s executive board and became a key civilian leader of the opposition during the 2011 uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.
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D.
Abdullah al-Janabi
Abdullah al-Janabi is a radical Iraqi Sunni cleric and insurgent leader known for his prominent role in organizing resistance against U.S.-led forces in Fallujah during the Iraq War.
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E.
Abdel Hakim Amer
Abdel Hakim Amer was an Egyptian military officer and close ally of President Gamal Abdel Nasser who served as Egypt’s top commander during the 1950s and 1960s, playing a central role in key conflicts including the Suez Crisis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iraqi politician
ⓘ
military commander ⓘ person ⓘ war criminal ⓘ |
| activeIn |
Gulf War
ⓘ
surface form:
Gulf War (1990–1991)
Iran–Iraq War ⓘ |
| alias |
Ali Hassan al-Majid
ⓘ
surface form:
Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti
Chemical Ali ⓘ |
| arrestedBy |
United States Armed Forces
ⓘ
surface form:
United States forces
|
| causeOfDeath | execution by hanging ⓘ |
| convictedBy |
Iraqi Special Tribunal
ⓘ
surface form:
Iraqi High Tribunal
|
| convictedOf |
crimes against humanity
ⓘ
genocide ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iraq ⓘ |
| dateOfArrest | 2003-08-21 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1941-11-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfConviction | 2007-06-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-01-25 ⓘ |
| era | Ba'athist Iraq ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arab ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ali Hassan al-Majid
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
|
| kinship | cousin of Saddam Hussein ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region ⓘ |
| militaryRank | General ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Al-Anfal campaign
ⓘ
surface form:
Anfal campaign against Kurds
Halabja chemical attack ⓘ use of chemical weapons against Kurdish civilians ⓘ |
| occupation |
security official
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| onList | Iraq most-wanted playing cards ⓘ |
| partOf |
Ba'athist Iraq
ⓘ
surface form:
Iraqi Ba'athist regime
|
| perpetratorOf |
Al-Anfal campaign
ⓘ
surface form:
Anfal campaign
Halabja chemical attack ⓘ mass killings of Kurds ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Tikrit
ⓘ
surface form:
al-Awja, near Tikrit, Iraq
|
| placeOfDeath |
Baghdad
ⓘ
surface form:
Baghdad, Iraq
|
| positionHeld |
Governor of Kuwait (Iraqi occupation)
ⓘ
Minister of Defense of Iraq ⓘ Minister of Interior of Iraq ⓘ Secretary General of the Northern Bureau of the Ba'ath Party ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Kurdistan Regional Government
ⓘ
surface form:
Iraqi Kurdistan
Kuwait ⓘ southern Iraq ⓘ
surface form:
Southern Iraq
|
| relative | Saddam Hussein ⓘ |
| religion | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Saddam Hussein ⓘ |
| tribe | al-Bu Nasir ⓘ |
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: Ali Hassan al-Majid Description of subject: Ali Hassan al-Majid, widely known as "Chemical Ali," was a senior Iraqi Ba'athist military commander and cousin of Saddam Hussein notorious for overseeing brutal campaigns including chemical attacks against Kurdish civilians.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti
this entity surface form:
Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti