Tawakkol Karman
E209021
Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist who became a leading figure in the 2011 Yemeni uprising and the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tawakkol Karman canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1872394 — 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: Tawakkol Karman Context triple: [Women of the Arab Spring, includedNotableFigure, Tawakkol Karman]
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A.
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, former judge, and human rights activist who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights, especially for women and children in Iran.
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B.
Bassma Al Jandali
Bassma Al Jandali is a Syrian-American woman known primarily as the sister of Abdulfattah Jandali, the biological father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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C.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for advocating girls’ right to schooling after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt.
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D.
Sajida Talfah
Sajida Talfah was the first wife and cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the mother of several of his children.
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E.
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar known internationally for her advocacy of Palestinian rights and involvement in Middle East peace negotiations.
- 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: Tawakkol Karman Target entity description: Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist who became a leading figure in the 2011 Yemeni uprising and the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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A.
Shirin Ebadi
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, former judge, and human rights activist who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote democracy and human rights, especially for women and children in Iran.
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B.
Bassma Al Jandali
Bassma Al Jandali is a Syrian-American woman known primarily as the sister of Abdulfattah Jandali, the biological father of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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C.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate known for advocating girls’ right to schooling after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt.
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D.
Sajida Talfah
Sajida Talfah was the first wife and cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the mother of several of his children.
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E.
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar known internationally for her advocacy of Palestinian rights and involvement in Middle East peace negotiations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nobel laureate
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human ⓘ human rights activist ⓘ journalist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| awardReason | non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women’s rights to full participation in peace-building work ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Nobel Peace Prize
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Nobel Peace Prize ⓘ
surface form:
Nobel Peace Prize 2011
|
| awardSharedWith |
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Leymah Gbowee ⓘ |
| cause |
democratization of Yemen
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freedom of speech in Yemen ⓘ women’s political participation ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Asia ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Yemen ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Yemen ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1979-02-07 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Yemeni ⓘ |
| familyName | Karman ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
democracy promotion
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freedom of the press ⓘ human rights ⓘ women’s rights ⓘ |
| fullName | Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman ⓘ |
| givenName | Tawakkol ⓘ |
| hasRole | leader in the 2011 Yemeni uprising ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advocacy for freedom of expression in Yemen
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campaigning against corruption in Yemen ⓘ organizing protests in Sana'a ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | Arabic ⓘ |
| movement |
2011 Yemeni uprising
ⓘ
Arab Spring ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Arabic ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
ⓘ
youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the time of award ⓘ |
| notableTitle | “Mother of the Revolution” (nickname in Yemen) ⓘ |
| notableWork | leadership in the 2011 Yemeni uprising ⓘ |
| occupation |
democracy activist
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human rights activist ⓘ journalist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Taiz ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-democracy ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Middle East
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Yemen ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Yemen ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Tawakkol Karman Description of subject: Tawakkol Karman is a Yemeni journalist, politician, and human rights activist who became a leading figure in the 2011 Yemeni uprising and the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.