King Hussein of Jordan
E3426
King Hussein of Jordan was the long-reigning monarch of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, known for his efforts to modernize the country and pursue peace in the Middle East.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King Hussein of Jordan canonical | 72 |
| Hussein of Jordan | 56 |
| King Hussein bin Talal | 4 |
| Hussein bin Talal | 2 |
| Hussein | 1 |
| King Hussein of Jordan (brother-in-law) | 1 |
| King Hussein of Jordan (by marriage through her daughter) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T40239 — 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: King Hussein of Jordan Context triple: [Harrow School, hasAlumni, King Hussein of Jordan]
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A.
Philippe of Belgium
Philippe of Belgium is the current King of the Belgians, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the constitutional monarch of Belgium.
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B.
Naruhito
Naruhito is the Emperor of Japan and the symbolic head of state of the country.
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C.
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito was the Shōwa-era emperor of Japan who reigned during World War II and oversaw the country’s militarist expansion, defeat, and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
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D.
Trygve Lie
Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1946 to 1952.
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E.
Ismail Serageldin
Ismail Serageldin is an Egyptian scholar and former vice president of the World Bank, best known as the founding director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and a prominent advocate for science, development, and cultural heritage.
- 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: King Hussein of Jordan Target entity description: King Hussein of Jordan was the long-reigning monarch of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, known for his efforts to modernize the country and pursue peace in the Middle East.
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A.
Philippe of Belgium
Philippe of Belgium is the current King of the Belgians, having ascended the throne in 2013 as the constitutional monarch of Belgium.
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B.
Naruhito
Naruhito is the Emperor of Japan and the symbolic head of state of the country.
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C.
Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito was the Shōwa-era emperor of Japan who reigned during World War II and oversaw the country’s militarist expansion, defeat, and subsequent postwar reconstruction.
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D.
Trygve Lie
Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician and diplomat who became the first Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving from 1946 to 1952.
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E.
Ismail Serageldin
Ismail Serageldin is an Egyptian scholar and former vice president of the World Bank, best known as the founding director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and a prominent advocate for science, development, and cultural heritage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
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: King Hussein of Jordan Description of subject: King Hussein of Jordan was the long-reigning monarch of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, known for his efforts to modernize the country and pursue peace in the Middle East.
Referenced by (137)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan
subject surface form:
Talal I of Jordan
this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan
subject surface form:
Talal I of Jordan
this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan
His Majesty King Talal I of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
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successorAsCrownPrince
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King Hussein of Jordan
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subject surface form:
Talal I of Jordan
this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan
His Majesty King Talal I of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
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parentOfMonarch
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King Hussein of Jordan
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subject surface form:
Talal I of Jordan
this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan
this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan
subject surface form:
Princess Alia bint Hussein
this entity surface form:
King Hussein of Jordan (by marriage through her daughter)
subject surface form:
Princess Muna al-Hussein
this entity surface form:
King Hussein of Jordan (brother-in-law)
this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan
Jordan–United States relations
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JordanHeadOfStateDuringConsolidationPeriod
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King Hussein of Jordan
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this entity surface form:
Hussein of Jordan