Wolesi Jirga
E790071
Wolesi Jirga is the lower house of Afghanistan’s National Assembly, serving as the country’s primary legislative body.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Wolesi Jirga canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9303838 — 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: Wolesi Jirga Context triple: [Malalai Joya, memberOf, Wolesi Jirga]
-
A.
National People's Assembly
The National People's Assembly is the unicameral legislative body and primary law-making institution of Guinea-Bissau.
-
B.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Mexico’s bicameral federal Congress, responsible for initiating revenue laws, approving the budget, and representing the population through elected deputies.
-
C.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is the federal lower house of Brazil’s National Congress, composed of elected representatives responsible for drafting and voting on national legislation and overseeing the executive branch.
-
D.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is a legislative lower house in various parliamentary systems, typically composed of elected representatives responsible for lawmaking and government oversight.
-
E.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Italy’s national parliament, responsible for legislating, overseeing the government, and representing the Italian electorate.
- 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: Wolesi Jirga Target entity description: Wolesi Jirga is the lower house of Afghanistan’s National Assembly, serving as the country’s primary legislative body.
-
A.
National People's Assembly
The National People's Assembly is the unicameral legislative body and primary law-making institution of Guinea-Bissau.
-
B.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Mexico’s bicameral federal Congress, responsible for initiating revenue laws, approving the budget, and representing the population through elected deputies.
-
C.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is the federal lower house of Brazil’s National Congress, composed of elected representatives responsible for drafting and voting on national legislation and overseeing the executive branch.
-
D.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is a legislative lower house in various parliamentary systems, typically composed of elected representatives responsible for lawmaking and government oversight.
-
E.
Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of Italy’s national parliament, responsible for legislating, overseeing the government, and representing the Italian electorate.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | lower house of parliament ⓘ |
| bicameralLegislatureWith | Meshrano Jirga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| budgetaryPower | approval and amendment of state budget ⓘ |
| constitutionalStatus | constitutional organ of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| country | Afghanistan ⓘ |
| countryCapital | Kabul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| electionType | direct election ⓘ |
| electoralBodyFor | some positions in the Afghan state ⓘ |
| electoralConstituencies | provinces of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| electoralCycle | national parliamentary elections ⓘ |
| establishedIn | 2004 ⓘ |
| hasChamber | plenary chamber of Wolesi Jirga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCommitteeSystem |
special committees
ⓘ
standing committees ⓘ |
| hasDeputySpeakers | Deputy Speakers of the Wolesi Jirga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFunction |
approving legislation
ⓘ
approving the national budget ⓘ drafting laws ⓘ oversight of the executive branch ⓘ ratifying international treaties ⓘ |
| hasNumberOfMembers | 249 ⓘ |
| hasPower | vote of no confidence in ministers ⓘ |
| hasQuorumRule | quorum required for legislative sessions ⓘ |
| hasReservedSeatsFor |
Kuchi (nomadic) community
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
women ⓘ |
| hasSpeaker | Speaker of the Wolesi Jirga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| houseType | lower house ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | national ⓘ |
| legalBasis | Constitution of Afghanistan (2004) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislativeChamberOf | Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legislatureType | bicameral legislature lower chamber ⓘ |
| meetsFrequency | regular sessions and extraordinary sessions ⓘ |
| meetsIn | Kabul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meetsInBuilding | National Assembly building in Kabul NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nameMeaning | House of the People NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeName | ولسی جرگه NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| officialLanguage |
Dari
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Pashto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | National Assembly of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| passes | laws of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| predecessor | National Assembly under previous Afghan constitutions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | primary legislative body of Afghanistan ⓘ |
| supervises | Government of Afghanistan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termLength | 5 years ⓘ |
| upperHouse | Meshrano Jirga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| votingSystem | single non-transferable vote ⓘ |
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: Wolesi Jirga Description of subject: Wolesi Jirga is the lower house of Afghanistan’s National Assembly, serving as the country’s primary legislative body.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.