Esfandiar Baharmast
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Esfandiar Baharmast is an Iranian-American soccer referee best known for officiating at the international level, including the FIFA World Cup and Major League Soccer matches.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Esfandiar Baharmast canonical | 3 |
| Esfandiar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3561628 — 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: Esfandiar Baharmast Context triple: [1996 MLS Cup, referee, Esfandiar Baharmast]
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A.
Esfandiyar
Esfandiyar is a legendary Iranian prince and tragic hero in Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh, renowned for his invincibility and fateful confrontation with the champion Rostam.
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B.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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C.
Aryamehr
Aryamehr was an honorific title meaning "Light of the Aryans" used by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, to emphasize his imperial and cultural stature.
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D.
Fereydun
Fereydun is a legendary hero and king in Persian mythology, best known from the Shahnameh for overthrowing the tyrant Zahhak and ushering in a just reign.
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E.
Behzad
Behzad was a master Persian miniaturist of the Timurid and early Safavid periods, renowned for his innovative compositions and influential role in the Herat and Tabriz schools of painting.
- 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: Esfandiar Baharmast Target entity description: Esfandiar Baharmast is an Iranian-American soccer referee best known for officiating at the international level, including the FIFA World Cup and Major League Soccer matches.
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A.
Esfandiyar
Esfandiyar is a legendary Iranian prince and tragic hero in Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh, renowned for his invincibility and fateful confrontation with the champion Rostam.
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B.
Dinarzad
Dinarzad is a character in The Arabian Nights, known as Shahrazad’s younger sister who prompts her to tell stories each night to the king.
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C.
Aryamehr
Aryamehr was an honorific title meaning "Light of the Aryans" used by Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, to emphasize his imperial and cultural stature.
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D.
Fereydun
Fereydun is a legendary hero and king in Persian mythology, best known from the Shahnameh for overthrowing the tyrant Zahhak and ushering in a just reign.
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E.
Behzad
Behzad was a master Persian miniaturist of the Timurid and early Safavid periods, renowned for his innovative compositions and influential role in the Herat and Tabriz schools of painting.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian American person
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association football referee ⓘ human ⓘ sports official ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Iran
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United States of America ⓘ |
| employer |
FIFA
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Major League Soccer ⓘ United States Soccer Federation ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Iranian American ⓘ |
| familyName | Baharmast ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | sports officiating ⓘ |
| genre | men's association football ⓘ |
| givenName |
Esfandiar
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linked to:
Esfandiar Baharmast
|
| hasRole |
FIFA referee
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MLS referee ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned |
English
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Persian ⓘ |
| name | Esfandiar Baharmast ⓘ |
| notableFor |
officiating Major League Soccer matches
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officiating at the FIFA World Cup ⓘ officiating international football matches ⓘ |
| notableOccupation | soccer referee ⓘ |
| occupation | association football referee ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
FIFA World Cup
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Major League Soccer ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Esfandiar Baharmast Description of subject: Esfandiar Baharmast is an Iranian-American soccer referee best known for officiating at the international level, including the FIFA World Cup and Major League Soccer matches.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Esfandiar Baharmast