Ayman al-Zawahiri

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Ayman al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian-born physician-turned-militant who became the ideological leader of al-Qaeda and succeeded Osama bin Laden as its emir.

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
birthCountry Egypt
birthDate 1951-06-19
birthPlace Cairo
Giza Governorate
bounty 25 million USD reward (U.S. government)
charge terrorism-related offenses
citizenship Egypt
countryOfExile Afghanistan
Pakistan
deathCountry Afghanistan
deathDate 2022-07-31
deathPlace Kabul
educatedAt Cairo University
Cairo University
surface form: Cairo University Faculty of Medicine
familyName Ayman al-Zawahiri self-linksurface differs
surface form: al-Zawahiri
fieldOfStudy medicine
givenName Ayman
ideology Islamism
Salafi jihadism
killedBy United States of America
surface form: United States
languageSpoken Arabic
mannerOfDeath drone strike
memberOf Egyptian Islamic Jihad
al-Qaeda
name Ayman al-Zawahiri self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri
notableEvent involvement in planning al-Qaeda operations
merger of Egyptian Islamic Jihad with al-Qaeda
notableFor global jihadist propaganda
ideological leadership of al-Qaeda
notableRole key ideologue of al-Qaeda
strategist for transnational jihadist operations
notableWork Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner
numberOfChildren 6
occupation militant
physician
terrorist leader
onList FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
positionHeld deputy leader of al-Qaeda
emir of al-Qaeda
leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad
religion Sunni Islam
residence Afghanistan
Pakistan
spouse Azza Ahmed Nowari
succeeded Osama bin Laden
wantedBy United States government

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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: Ayman al-Zawahiri
Description of subject: Ayman al-Zawahiri was an Egyptian-born physician-turned-militant who became the ideological leader of al-Qaeda and succeeded Osama bin Laden as its emir.

Referenced by (11)

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

The Looming Tower subject Ayman al-Zawahiri
al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri name Ayman al-Zawahiri self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Ayman Mohammed Rabie al-Zawahiri
Ayman al-Zawahiri familyName Ayman al-Zawahiri self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: al-Zawahiri
Saif al-Adel associatedWith Ayman al-Zawahiri
Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner author Ayman al-Zawahiri
Egyptian Islamic Jihad notableLeader Ayman al-Zawahiri
Azza Ahmed Nowari spouse Ayman al-Zawahiri
Abdelmalek Droukdel pledgedAllegianceTo Ayman al-Zawahiri
Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud pledgedAllegianceTo Ayman al-Zawahiri