Supreme Leader
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The Supreme Leader is Iran’s highest-ranking political and religious authority, wielding ultimate control over the armed forces, judiciary, and key state institutions.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Supreme Leader canonical | 4 |
| Supreme Leadership | 2 |
| Supreme Leader or his delegate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T171782 — 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: Supreme Leader Context triple: [Iran, headOfStateTitle, Supreme Leader]
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A.
Koba
Koba was a revolutionary alias used by Joseph Stalin during his early political activities in the Bolshevik movement.
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B.
First Marshal of the Empire
First Marshal of the Empire was the highest military rank in Fascist Italy, created in 1938 to place Benito Mussolini on equal footing with King Victor Emmanuel III as joint commanders of the Italian armed forces.
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C.
Lord Speaker
The Lord Speaker is the presiding officer and representative of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, responsible for maintaining order and overseeing its proceedings.
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D.
Boss
Boss is an autonomous robotic vehicle developed by Carnegie Mellon University that famously won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge for self-driving cars.
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E.
Consul for Life
Consul for Life was the title Napoleon Bonaparte assumed in 1802, marking his transformation from revolutionary leader to authoritarian ruler and paving the way for his later proclamation as Emperor of the French.
- 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: Supreme Leader Target entity description: The Supreme Leader is Iran’s highest-ranking political and religious authority, wielding ultimate control over the armed forces, judiciary, and key state institutions.
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A.
Koba
Koba was a revolutionary alias used by Joseph Stalin during his early political activities in the Bolshevik movement.
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B.
First Marshal of the Empire
First Marshal of the Empire was the highest military rank in Fascist Italy, created in 1938 to place Benito Mussolini on equal footing with King Victor Emmanuel III as joint commanders of the Italian armed forces.
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C.
Lord Speaker
The Lord Speaker is the presiding officer and representative of the United Kingdom’s House of Lords, responsible for maintaining order and overseeing its proceedings.
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D.
Boss
Boss is an autonomous robotic vehicle developed by Carnegie Mellon University that famously won the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge for self-driving cars.
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E.
Consul for Life
Consul for Life was the title Napoleon Bonaparte assumed in 1802, marking his transformation from revolutionary leader to authoritarian ruler and paving the way for his later proclamation as Emperor of the French.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
political office
ⓘ
religious leadership position ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Rahbar
ⓘ
Supreme Leadership ⓘ
linked to:
Supreme Leader
|
| appoints |
Friday prayer leaders in major cities
ⓘ
chief of the Joint Staff ⓘ commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force ⓘ commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force ⓘ commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy ⓘ commander of the Law Enforcement Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army ⓘ commanders of the armed forces of Iran ⓘ head of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ⓘ head of judiciary of Iran ⓘ head of state broadcasting (IRIB) ⓘ head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces ⓘ members of the Expediency Discernment Council ⓘ members of the Guardian Council ⓘ representatives to key state institutions ⓘ |
| constitutionalBasis | Article 110 of the Constitution of Iran ⓘ |
| country | Iran ⓘ |
| currentHolder |
Ali Khamenei
ⓘ
linked to:
Rahbar
|
| electedBy | Assembly of Experts ⓘ |
| eligibilityRequirement |
must be a qualified Islamic jurist (faqih)
ⓘ
must possess administrative and leadership capabilities ⓘ must possess political and social insight ⓘ |
| establishedBy | Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ |
| firstHolder | Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ |
| hasAuthority |
declare peace
ⓘ
declare war ⓘ determine general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ dismiss the president of Iran under certain conditions ⓘ mobilize the armed forces ⓘ resolve conflicts between branches of government ⓘ |
| hasPowerOver |
Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
ⓘ
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ⓘ
linked to:
Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran
judiciary of Iran ⓘ
linked to:
Government of Iran
key state institutions in Iran ⓘ regular Iranian military ⓘ state broadcasting in Iran ⓘ |
| ideology | Islamic theocracy ⓘ |
| inception | 1979 ⓘ |
| isCommanderInChiefOf | Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ |
| oversees |
Expediency Discernment Council
ⓘ
Guardian Council ⓘ functioning of the three branches of government ⓘ proper implementation of general policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ |
| positionInGovernment |
highest-ranking political authority in Iran
ⓘ
highest-ranking religious authority in Iran ⓘ |
| religiousSchool |
Twelver Shia Islam
ⓘ
linked to:
Twelver Shia
|
| residence | Hoseinieh-ye Imam Khomeini, Tehran ⓘ |
| termLength | life tenure unless removed by Assembly of Experts ⓘ |
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: Supreme Leader Description of subject: The Supreme Leader is Iran’s highest-ranking political and religious authority, wielding ultimate control over the armed forces, judiciary, and key state institutions.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Supreme Leader
linked to: Supreme Leader
linked to: Supreme Leader
linked to: Supreme Leader
subject linked to:
present-day Iran