KSM
E234622
KSM is the commonly used acronym for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged principal architect of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| KSM canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2110026 — 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: KSM Context triple: [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alsoKnownAs, KSM]
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A.
KSMF
KSMF is the ICAO airport code for Sacramento International Airport, a major commercial airport serving California’s capital region.
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B.
KSL
KSL is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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C.
KS
KS is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Kansas.
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D.
KMSP
KMSP is the ICAO airport code for Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, a major air transportation hub serving the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota, USA.
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E.
KOS
KOS is the vehicle registration code assigned to the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland.
- 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: KSM Target entity description: KSM is the commonly used acronym for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged principal architect of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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A.
KSMF
KSMF is the ICAO airport code for Sacramento International Airport, a major commercial airport serving California’s capital region.
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B.
KSL
KSL is the primary sign language used by the Deaf community in South Korea, with its own distinct grammar and vocabulary separate from spoken Korean.
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C.
KS
KS is the standard two-letter postal abbreviation for the U.S. state of Kansas.
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D.
KMSP
KMSP is the ICAO airport code for Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, a major air transportation hub serving the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area in Minnesota, USA.
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E.
KOS
KOS is the vehicle registration code assigned to the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamist militant
ⓘ
al-Qaeda member ⓘ person ⓘ |
| acronym | KSM ⓘ |
| affiliation | al-Qaeda ⓘ |
| alias | Mukhtar ⓘ |
| allegedRole |
key planner of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
ⓘ
principal architect of the September 11 attacks ⓘ |
| capturedBy |
Pakistan
ⓘ
United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| chargedWith |
murder in violation of the law of war
ⓘ
terrorism ⓘ war crimes ⓘ |
| citizenship | Pakistan ⓘ |
| confessedTo |
involvement in other al-Qaeda plots
ⓘ
involvement in planning the September 11 attacks ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1964 ⓘ |
| dateOfCapture | 2003-03-01 ⓘ |
| detainedAt |
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
ⓘ
linked to:
Guantánamo
|
| detainedBy |
United States Department of Defense
ⓘ
linked to:
Department of Defense
|
| education |
Chowan College
ⓘ
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina A&T State University
|
| ethnicity |
Baloch
ⓘ
linked to:
Baloch people
|
| familyRelation | uncle of Ramzi Yousef ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | mechanical engineering ⓘ |
| fullName | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| heldAs | enemy combatant ⓘ |
| interrogatedBy | Central Intelligence Agency ⓘ |
| interrogationMethod | waterboarding ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
1993 World Trade Center bombing planning (alleged support)
ⓘ
Bojinka plot ⓘ |
| legalStatus | detainee in U.S. military commission system ⓘ |
| nationality | Pakistani ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in the September 11 attacks
ⓘ
planning terrorist attacks against the United States ⓘ |
| numberOfTimesWaterboarded | 183 ⓘ |
| operationalRole | al-Qaeda operations planner ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kuwait ⓘ |
| placeOfCapture |
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
ⓘ
linked to:
Rawalpindi
|
| regionOfActivity |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
Pakistan ⓘ United States (as target of operations) ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| relative | Ramzi Yousef ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| securityStatus | high-value detainee ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
U.S. military commission proceedings
ⓘ
extraordinary rendition and CIA detention programs ⓘ |
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: KSM Description of subject: KSM is the commonly used acronym for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged principal architect of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.