Mohammad Khatami
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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."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mohammad Khatami canonical | 10 |
| Khatami | 1 |
| Mohammad Khatami as President of Iran | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1658508 — 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: Mohammad Khatami Context triple: [University of Tehran, hasNotableAlumni, Mohammad Khatami]
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A.
Abolhassan Banisadr
Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician and economist who became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
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B.
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian engineer, pro-democracy politician, and the first prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, known for his moderate and liberal opposition to the Shah and later tensions with the post-revolutionary clerical establishment.
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C.
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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D.
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf is an Afghan Islamist politician and former mujahideen leader known for his influential role in Afghanistan’s jihadist movements and later involvement in post-Taliban politics.
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E.
Parviz Mirza
Parviz Mirza was a Mughal prince of the early 17th century, known as one of Emperor Jahangir’s sons and a contender in the empire’s succession struggles.
- 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: Mohammad Khatami Target entity description: 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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A.
Abolhassan Banisadr
Abolhassan Banisadr was an Iranian politician and economist who became the first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran after the 1979 revolution.
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B.
Mehdi Bazargan
Mehdi Bazargan was an Iranian engineer, pro-democracy politician, and the first prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, known for his moderate and liberal opposition to the Shah and later tensions with the post-revolutionary clerical establishment.
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C.
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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D.
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf
Abdul Rasul Sayyaf is an Afghan Islamist politician and former mujahideen leader known for his influential role in Afghanistan’s jihadist movements and later involvement in post-Taliban politics.
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E.
Parviz Mirza
Parviz Mirza was a Mughal prince of the early 17th century, known as one of Emperor Jahangir’s sons and a contender in the empire’s succession struggles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian politician
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Shia cleric ⓘ cleric ⓘ former president ⓘ human ⓘ reformist politician ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1943-09-29 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Ardakan, Yazd Province, Iran
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linked to:
Yazd Province
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran ⓘ |
| education |
Qom Seminary
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawza of Qom
University of Isfahan ⓘ |
| familyName |
Khatami
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linked to:
Mohammad Khatami
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| father | Ruhollah Khatami ⓘ |
| givenName | Mohammad ⓘ |
| ideology |
Islamic democracy
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political reformism ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Dialogue Among Civilizations initiative
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advocacy of political reform in Iran ⓘ promotion of civil society in Iran ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| name | Mohammad Khatami ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
Dialogue Among Civilizations
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linked to:
Alliance of Civilizations initiative
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| notableRoleInHistory | key figure in Iran’s reform movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 3 ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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author ⓘ cleric ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| officeHeld |
Member of the Iranian Parliament (Majlis)
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Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Iran ⓘ President of Iran ⓘ |
| parliamentaryConstituency | Ardakan ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | reformist ⓘ |
| positionEnd | 2005-08-03 (as President of Iran) ⓘ |
| positionStart | 1997-08-03 (as President of Iran) ⓘ |
| precededBy |
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (as President of Iran)
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linked to:
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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| presidentialTermNumber | 5th President of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousDenomination | Shia Islam ⓘ |
| religiousTitle | Hojjatoleslam ⓘ |
| residence |
Tehran, Iran
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linked to:
Tehran
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| spouse | Zahra Sadeghi ⓘ |
| succeededBy |
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (as President of Iran)
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linked to:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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| termAsMinisterOfCultureEnd | 1992 ⓘ |
| termAsMinisterOfCultureStart | 1982 ⓘ |
| UNInitiative | Proposed 2001 as the United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations ⓘ |
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: Mohammad Khatami Description of subject: 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."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mohammad Khatami
linked to: Mohammad Khatami