Jamal al-Badawi
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Jamal al-Badawi was a Yemeni al-Qaeda operative widely known for his role in planning and executing the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jamal al-Badawi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6356762 — 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: Jamal al-Badawi Context triple: [2000 USS Cole bombing, notableSuspect, Jamal al-Badawi]
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A.
Awni Abd al-Hadi
Awni Abd al-Hadi was a prominent Palestinian Arab nationalist leader, lawyer, and politician who played a key role in early 20th-century anti-colonial and anti-Zionist movements in Palestine.
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B.
Abdel Azim Khattab
Abdel Azim Khattab was an Egyptian actor known for his role in the classic film "The Nightingale's Prayer."
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C.
Mohammad Qasim Fahim
Mohammad Qasim Fahim was an influential Afghan military commander and politician who served as a key leader of the anti-Taliban resistance and later as Afghanistan’s vice president and defense minister.
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D.
Mohamed al-Haddad
Mohamed al-Haddad is a Libyan military officer who has served as a senior commander in forces aligned with the internationally recognized Government of National Accord during the country’s recent civil conflict.
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E.
Mohand al-Shehri
Mohand al-Shehri was a Saudi national and al-Qaeda operative who participated as one of the suicide hijackers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
- 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: Jamal al-Badawi Target entity description: Jamal al-Badawi was a Yemeni al-Qaeda operative widely known for his role in planning and executing the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
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A.
Awni Abd al-Hadi
Awni Abd al-Hadi was a prominent Palestinian Arab nationalist leader, lawyer, and politician who played a key role in early 20th-century anti-colonial and anti-Zionist movements in Palestine.
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B.
Abdel Azim Khattab
Abdel Azim Khattab was an Egyptian actor known for his role in the classic film "The Nightingale's Prayer."
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C.
Mohammad Qasim Fahim
Mohammad Qasim Fahim was an influential Afghan military commander and politician who served as a key leader of the anti-Taliban resistance and later as Afghanistan’s vice president and defense minister.
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D.
Mohamed al-Haddad
Mohamed al-Haddad is a Libyan military officer who has served as a senior commander in forces aligned with the internationally recognized Government of National Accord during the country’s recent civil conflict.
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E.
Mohand al-Shehri
Mohand al-Shehri was a Saudi national and al-Qaeda operative who participated as one of the suicide hijackers in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
al-Qaeda member
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person ⓘ terrorist ⓘ |
| attackDate | 2000-10-12 ⓘ |
| attackLocation | Aden, Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| charge |
conspiracy to destroy a U.S. vessel
ⓘ
murder of U.S. nationals outside the United States ⓘ providing material support to terrorists ⓘ terrorism-related offenses ⓘ |
| citizenship | Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedBy | Yemeni court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conviction | terrorism ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960s ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2019 ⓘ |
| escapeEvent |
2003 prison escape in Yemen
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2006 prison escape in Yemen ⓘ |
| escapeFrom | Yemeni prison ⓘ |
| familyName | al-Badawi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Ali al-Badawi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Jamal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology | jihadist ⓘ |
| killedBy | United States military NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedIn | U.S. airstrike in Yemen ⓘ |
| listedOn | FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | airstrike ⓘ |
| memberOf | al-Qaeda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
al-Qaeda operations in Yemen
ⓘ
role in the bombing of USS Cole ⓘ |
| numberOfPeopleInjuredInAttack | 39 U.S. sailors ⓘ |
| numberOfPeopleKilledInAttack | 17 U.S. sailors ⓘ |
| operatedIn |
Aden
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | bombing of USS Cole ⓘ |
| perpetratedAttackOn | USS Cole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Yemen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| roleInEvent |
coordinator of USS Cole bombing
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planner of USS Cole bombing ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
FBI wanted notice
NERFINISHED
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U.S. criminal indictment ⓘ |
| targetOf | U.S. counterterrorism operations ⓘ |
| usedTactic | suicide bombing ⓘ |
| usedWeapon | explosives-laden small boat ⓘ |
| victimOfAttack |
United States Navy
NERFINISHED
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crew of USS Cole ⓘ |
| wantedBy |
Federal Bureau of Investigation
NERFINISHED
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United States 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: Jamal al-Badawi Description of subject: Jamal al-Badawi was a Yemeni al-Qaeda operative widely known for his role in planning and executing the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.