Mohammad Beheshti
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Mohammad Beheshti was an influential Iranian cleric, jurist, and revolutionary leader who played a key role in shaping the Islamic Republic’s political and legal system before his assassination in 1981.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mohammad Beheshti canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2097135 — 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: Mohammad Beheshti Context triple: [Shahid Beheshti University, namedAfter, Mohammad Beheshti]
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A.
Mohammad Mohaqiq
Mohammad Mohaqiq is an Afghan Hazara political leader and former mujahideen commander who has played a prominent role in Afghanistan’s post-Taliban politics.
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B.
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi was an influential Iranian educator and academic administrator known for his pivotal role in modernizing Iran’s higher education system.
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C.
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is an Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, and reformist Islamic thinker known for his influential works on religious hermeneutics, democracy, and human rights in Islam.
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D.
Mohammad Reza Hafezi
Mohammad Reza Hafezi is an Iranian architect best known for designing Tehran’s landmark Milad Tower, one of the tallest towers in the world.
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E.
Sher Mohammad Karimi
Sher Mohammad Karimi is a senior Afghan military leader who served as Chief of General Staff of the Afghan National Army and played a key role in the country’s post-2001 security forces.
- 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: Mohammad Beheshti Target entity description: Mohammad Beheshti was an influential Iranian cleric, jurist, and revolutionary leader who played a key role in shaping the Islamic Republic’s political and legal system before his assassination in 1981.
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A.
Mohammad Mohaqiq
Mohammad Mohaqiq is an Afghan Hazara political leader and former mujahideen commander who has played a prominent role in Afghanistan’s post-Taliban politics.
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B.
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi was an influential Iranian educator and academic administrator known for his pivotal role in modernizing Iran’s higher education system.
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C.
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari
Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is an Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, and reformist Islamic thinker known for his influential works on religious hermeneutics, democracy, and human rights in Islam.
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D.
Mohammad Reza Hafezi
Mohammad Reza Hafezi is an Iranian architect best known for designing Tehran’s landmark Milad Tower, one of the tallest towers in the world.
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E.
Sher Mohammad Karimi
Sher Mohammad Karimi is a senior Afghan military leader who served as Chief of General Staff of the Afghan National Army and played a key role in the country’s post-2001 security forces.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian cleric
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Shia Muslim ⓘ jurist ⓘ person ⓘ politician ⓘ revolutionary leader ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| closeAllyOf | Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-10-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-06-28 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hawza of Qom
ⓘ
surface form:
Qom Seminary
University of Tehran ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Persian ⓘ |
| familyName | Beheshti ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic jurisprudence
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Islamic philosophy ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ |
| givenName | Mohammad ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Ayatollah ⓘ |
| knownFor |
influence on post-revolutionary Iranian judiciary
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leadership in the Islamic Republican Party ⓘ role in consolidating the Islamic Republic ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
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Persian ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | terrorist bombing ⓘ |
| memberOf | Islamic Republican Party ⓘ |
| movement | Iranian Revolution ⓘ |
| nationality | Iranian ⓘ |
| notableRole |
key architect of the Islamic Republic’s judicial system
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key architect of the Islamic Republic’s political system ⓘ |
| notableWork | contribution to drafting the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Iran
ⓘ
Isfahan ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Iran
ⓘ
Tehran ⓘ |
| politicalIdeology |
Islamic Republic
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surface form:
Islamic republicanism
Islamism ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Justice of Iran
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Head of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iran ⓘ Member of the Assembly of Experts for Constitution ⓘ Secretary-General of the Islamic Republican Party ⓘ Vice-Chairman of the Assembly of Experts for Constitution ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
Shia Islam ⓘ |
| victimOf | Hafte Tir bombing ⓘ |
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: Mohammad Beheshti Description of subject: Mohammad Beheshti was an influential Iranian cleric, jurist, and revolutionary leader who played a key role in shaping the Islamic Republic’s political and legal system before his assassination in 1981.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.