Mir-Hossein Mousavi
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Mir-Hossein Mousavi is an Iranian reformist politician, architect, and former Prime Minister who became a leading figure in the Green Movement after the disputed 2009 presidential election.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mir-Hossein Mousavi canonical | 3 |
| Mousavi | 2 |
| Mir Hossein Mousavi | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1658511 — 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: Mir-Hossein Mousavi Context triple: [University of Tehran, hasNotableAlumni, Mir-Hossein Mousavi]
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A.
Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami is an Iranian reformist politician, cleric, and former President of Iran known for advocating political reform, civil society, and a "Dialogue Among Civilizations."
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B.
Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician and cleric who served as the President of Iran from 2013 to 2021, known for his role in negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.
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C.
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian engineer, pro-democracy politician, and the first prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, known for his moderate and liberal opposition to the Shah and later tensions with the post-revolutionary clerical establishment.
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D.
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his contributions to wireless communications, signal processing, and control theory, and for serving as a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
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E.
Abolhassan Banisadr
Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician and economist who became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
- 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: Mir-Hossein Mousavi Target entity description: Mir-Hossein Mousavi is an Iranian reformist politician, architect, and former Prime Minister who became a leading figure in the Green Movement after the disputed 2009 presidential election.
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A.
Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami is an Iranian reformist politician, cleric, and former President of Iran known for advocating political reform, civil society, and a "Dialogue Among Civilizations."
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B.
Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician and cleric who served as the President of Iran from 2013 to 2021, known for his role in negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.
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C.
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian engineer, pro-democracy politician, and the first prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, known for his moderate and liberal opposition to the Shah and later tensions with the post-revolutionary clerical establishment.
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D.
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his contributions to wireless communications, signal processing, and control theory, and for serving as a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
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E.
Abolhassan Banisadr
Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician and economist who became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian politician
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architect ⓘ former prime minister ⓘ human ⓘ reformist politician ⓘ |
| advocatesFor | political reform in Iran ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
ⓘ
surface form:
Mir Hossein Mousavi
Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ |
| artForm |
graphic design
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| candidateIn | 2009 Iranian presidential election ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1942-09-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Tehran
ⓘ
surface form:
National University of Tehran
University of Tehran ⓘ |
| endTime | 1989-08-03 ⓘ |
| era |
Islamic Republic
ⓘ
surface form:
Islamic Republic of Iran
|
| ethnicGroup | Azerbaijani ⓘ |
| familyName |
Mir-Hossein Mousavi
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Mousavi
|
| fieldOfStudy | architecture ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Mir-Hossein ⓘ |
| hasAcademicPosition |
faculty member at Islamic Azad University
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faculty member at Shahid Beheshti University ⓘ |
| hasRole | editor-in-chief of Jomhouri-e Eslami newspaper ⓘ |
| knownFor |
opposition to the results of the 2009 Iranian presidential election
ⓘ
symbolic leadership of the Green Movement in Iran ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Combatant Clergy Association
ⓘ
surface form:
Association of Combatant Clerics (as political ally)
Islamic Republican Party ⓘ |
| movement |
Iranian reformist movement
ⓘ
surface form:
Iranian Green Movement
|
| name | Mir-Hossein Mousavi self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| notableFor | economic management during Iran–Iraq War as prime minister ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership role in Iran’s Green Movement ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
ⓘ
painter ⓘ politician ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Khameneh, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | reformist ⓘ |
| politicalOpponent | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Prime Minister of Iran ⓘ |
| religion | Shia Islam ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Ali Khamenei
ⓘ
surface form:
President Ali Khamenei
|
| spouse | Zahra Rahnavard ⓘ |
| startTime | 1981-10-31 ⓘ |
| startTimeOfHouseArrest | 2011-02 ⓘ |
| wasSubjectOf | house arrest in Iran ⓘ |
| workLocation | Tehran ⓘ |
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: Mir-Hossein Mousavi Description of subject: Mir-Hossein Mousavi is an Iranian reformist politician, architect, and former Prime Minister who became a leading figure in the Green Movement after the disputed 2009 presidential election.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Mousavi
this entity surface form:
Mir Hossein Mousavi
this entity surface form:
Mousavi