Waleed al-Shehri

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Waleed al-Shehri was a Saudi national and al-Qaeda operative who participated as one of the hijackers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

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All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Waleed al-Shehri canonical 4
Waleed 1
Waleed Mohammed al-Shehri 1

Statements (42)

Predicate Object
instanceOf September 11 attacks hijacker
al-Qaeda member
person
terrorist
allegiance al-Qaeda
associatedWithEventLocation New York City, New York, United States of America
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
associatedWithOrganizationType jihadist militant group
attackMethod suicide hijacking
causeOfDeath aircraft crash
citizenship Saudi Arabia
coHijackerWith Abdulaziz al-Omari
Mohamed Atta
Satam al-Suqami
Wail al-Shehri
countryOfOrigin Saudi Arabia
dateOfBirth 1978-12-20
dateOfDeath 2001-09-11
deathInTerroristAttack true
enteredUnitedStatesBeforeAttacks true
ethnicity Arab
familyName al-Shehri
flightDestination Los Angeles International Airport
surface form: Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California, United States
flightOrigin Boston Logan International Airport
surface form: Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
fullName Waleed al-Shehri self-linksurface differs
surface form: Waleed Mohammed al-Shehri
givenName Waleed al-Shehri self-linksurface differs
surface form: Waleed
hijackerOf American Airlines Flight 11
mannerOfDeath homicide
memberOf al-Qaeda
nationality Saudi Arabia
surface form: Saudi
notableEventDate 2001-09-11
notableFor participation as a hijacker in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
operationalRole muscle hijacker
participantIn September 11 attacks
placeOfBirth Asir region
surface form: Asir Province, Saudi Arabia
placeOfDeath World Trade Center
surface form: World Trade Center, New York City, New York, United States
religion Islam
roleInEvent hijacker in the September 11 attacks
sibling Wail al-Shehri
targetedBuilding North Tower of the World Trade Center
terroristDesignation September 11 hijacker
usedWeaponType box cutter
yearOfMajorEvent 2001

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: Waleed al-Shehri
Description of subject: Waleed al-Shehri was a Saudi national and al-Qaeda operative who participated as one of the hijackers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

American Airlines Flight 11 hijacker Waleed al-Shehri
Waleed al-Shehri fullName Waleed al-Shehri self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Waleed Mohammed al-Shehri
Waleed al-Shehri givenName Waleed al-Shehri self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Waleed
Wail al-Shehri sibling Waleed al-Shehri
Wail al-Shehri relative Waleed al-Shehri
Wail al-Shehri coordinatedWith Waleed al-Shehri