al-Maliki
E561367
Al-Maliki is the surname of Nouri al-Maliki, a prominent Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| al-Maliki canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5982467 — 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: al-Maliki Context triple: [Nouri al-Maliki, familyName, al-Maliki]
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A.
Maliki
Maliki is one of the four major Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence, known for its reliance on the practices of the people of Medina as a primary source of legal authority.
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B.
Tariq Aziz
Tariq Aziz was a prominent Iraqi politician and close adviser to Saddam Hussein, serving as Iraq’s foreign minister and later deputy prime minister.
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C.
Uday Hussein
Uday Hussein was the notoriously violent and extravagant eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, known for his brutal behavior, control over key Iraqi institutions, and eventual death during the 2003 Iraq War.
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D.
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was a senior Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein who was executed for crimes against humanity following the fall of his regime.
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E.
Qusay Hussein
Qusay Hussein was the second son of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and a powerful figure in his regime, overseeing security and intelligence services until his death in 2003.
- 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: al-Maliki Target entity description: Al-Maliki is the surname of Nouri al-Maliki, a prominent Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
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A.
Maliki
Maliki is one of the four major Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence, known for its reliance on the practices of the people of Medina as a primary source of legal authority.
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B.
Tariq Aziz
Tariq Aziz was a prominent Iraqi politician and close adviser to Saddam Hussein, serving as Iraq’s foreign minister and later deputy prime minister.
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C.
Uday Hussein
Uday Hussein was the notoriously violent and extravagant eldest son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, known for his brutal behavior, control over key Iraqi institutions, and eventual death during the 2003 Iraq War.
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D.
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti was a senior Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein who was executed for crimes against humanity following the fall of his regime.
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E.
Qusay Hussein
Qusay Hussein was the second son of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and a powerful figure in his regime, overseeing security and intelligence services until his death in 2003.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Prime Minister of Iraq
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| activeIn | Iraqi politics ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Abu Isra
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jawad al-Maliki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Green Zone government in Baghdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| assumedOfficeAsPrimeMinister | 2006-05-20 ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| criticizedFor |
alleged sectarian policies
ⓘ
centralization of power ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1950-06-20 ⓘ |
| education | University of Baghdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Arabs
ⓘ
surface form:
Arab
|
| familyName | al-Maliki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Nouri NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headedGovernmentOf | Republic of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
Islamism
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Shia political Islam ⓘ |
| leftOfficeAsPrimeMinister | 2014-09-08 ⓘ |
| livedInExileIn |
Iran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Syria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Islamic Dawa Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Nouri al-Maliki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Iraqi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
central role in post-2003 Iraqi politics
ⓘ
leading the Iraqi government after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Prime Minister of Iraq ⓘ |
| opposedTo | Saddam Hussein NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parliamentaryBody | Council of Representatives of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hindiya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Prime Minister of Iraq
ⓘ
Secretary-General of the Islamic Dawa Party ⓘ Vice President of Iraq NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Ibrahim al-Jaafari NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Shia Islam ⓘ |
| residence | Baghdad NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Faleha Khalil NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Haider al-Abadi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedBy | various Shia political blocs in Iraq ⓘ |
| wasKeyFigureIn | post-Ba'athist political transition in Iraq ⓘ |
| wasPrimeMinisterDuring |
Iraq War
NERFINISHED
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Iraqi Civil War (sectarian conflict) NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: al-Maliki Description of subject: Al-Maliki is the surname of Nouri al-Maliki, a prominent Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.