Ali Khamenei
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Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country’s highest political and religious authority since 1989.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ali Khamenei canonical | 5 |
| President Ali Khamenei | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5167814 — 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: Ali Khamenei Context triple: [Rahbar, officeHoldersInclude, Ali Khamenei]
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A.
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary leader who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its paramount political and religious authority after the 1979 revolution.
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B.
Sadeq Larijani
Sadeq Larijani is an influential Iranian conservative cleric and politician who has served in top leadership roles including head of the judiciary and chair of key state oversight bodies.
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C.
Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician and cleric who served as the President of Iran from 2013 to 2021, known for his role in negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.
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D.
Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami is an Iranian reformist politician, cleric, and former President of Iran known for advocating political reform, civil society, and a "Dialogue Among Civilizations."
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E.
Saied
Saied is the family name of Kais Saied, the Tunisian politician and president known for his anti-corruption stance and consolidation of power.
- 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: Ali Khamenei Target entity description: Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country’s highest political and religious authority since 1989.
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A.
Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah Khomeini was an Iranian Shia cleric and revolutionary leader who founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and served as its paramount political and religious authority after the 1979 revolution.
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B.
Sadeq Larijani
Sadeq Larijani is an influential Iranian conservative cleric and politician who has served in top leadership roles including head of the judiciary and chair of key state oversight bodies.
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C.
Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani is an Iranian politician and cleric who served as the President of Iran from 2013 to 2021, known for his role in negotiating the 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers.
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D.
Mohammad Khatami
Mohammad Khatami is an Iranian reformist politician, cleric, and former President of Iran known for advocating political reform, civil society, and a "Dialogue Among Civilizations."
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E.
Saied
Saied is the family name of Kais Saied, the Tunisian politician and president known for his anti-corruption stance and consolidation of power.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Shia cleric
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Supreme Leader ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Assembly of Experts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1939-07-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mashhad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Mojtaba Khamenei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clergyRank | Ayatollah ⓘ |
| commanderInChiefOf | Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| denomination | Twelver Shia Islam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| education |
Islamic seminary in Mashhad
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Islamic seminary in Qom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Khamenei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Ali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSecurityBody | Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOf | Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Islamism
NERFINISHED
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Velayat-e Faqih NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influences |
Iranian domestic politics
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Iranian foreign policy ⓘ Iranian nuclear policy ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Azeri
NERFINISHED
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Persian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Combatant Clergy Association
NERFINISHED
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Islamic Republican Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Ali Hosseini Khamenei NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | علی حسینی خامنهای NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | speeches and sermons on Islamic governance ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 6 ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 1989-08-03 ⓘ |
| officeStart |
1981-10-13
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1989-06-04 ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Islamic Consultative Assembly
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President of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Supreme Leader of Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Tehran Friday Prayer Leader NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Mohammad-Ali Rajai
NERFINISHED
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Ruhollah Khomeini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousTitle | Marja ⓘ |
| residence | Tehran NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mansoureh Khojasteh Bagherzadeh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| teacher |
Hossein Borujerdi
NERFINISHED
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Ruhollah Khomeini NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Ali Khamenei Description of subject: Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country’s highest political and religious authority since 1989.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
President Ali Khamenei