Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi
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Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi was a prominent Iranian Shia cleric and jurist, best known as the founder of the Qom seminary and a leading marjaʿ of the early 20th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5168164 — 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: Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi Context triple: [Ruhollah Khomeini, studentOf, Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi]
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A.
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was a prominent Iranian cleric, jurist, and politician who served in several top leadership roles within the Islamic Republic, including as head of the judiciary.
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B.
Homayoun Ershadi
Homayoun Ershadi is an Iranian actor best known internationally for his roles in films such as "The Kite Runner" and Abbas Kiarostami's "Taste of Cherry."
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C.
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi was an influential Iranian educator and academic administrator known for his pivotal role in modernizing Iran’s higher education system.
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D.
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.
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E.
Mohammad Reza Hafezi
Mohammad Reza Hafezi is an Iranian architect best known for designing Tehran’s landmark Milad Tower, one of the tallest towers in the world.
- 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: Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi Target entity description: Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi was a prominent Iranian Shia cleric and jurist, best known as the founder of the Qom seminary and a leading marjaʿ of the early 20th century.
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A.
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was a prominent Iranian cleric, jurist, and politician who served in several top leadership roles within the Islamic Republic, including as head of the judiciary.
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B.
Homayoun Ershadi
Homayoun Ershadi is an Iranian actor best known internationally for his roles in films such as "The Kite Runner" and Abbas Kiarostami's "Taste of Cherry."
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C.
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi
Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi was an influential Iranian educator and academic administrator known for his pivotal role in modernizing Iran’s higher education system.
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D.
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.
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E.
Mohammad Reza Hafezi
Mohammad Reza Hafezi is an Iranian architect best known for designing Tehran’s landmark Milad Tower, one of the tallest towers in the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian religious leader
ⓘ
Islamic jurist ⓘ Shia cleric ⓘ marja' ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Qom
ⓘ
Shia religious establishment in Iran ⓘ |
| citizenship | Iran ⓘ |
| contributedTo | institutionalization of Shia seminaries in Qom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Iran ⓘ |
| denomination | Shia Islam ⓘ |
| era | early 20th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Haeri Yazdi ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiqh
ⓘ
usul al-fiqh ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Qom seminary
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawza of Qom
|
| fullName | Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi ⓘ |
| givenName |
Abdul-Karim
ⓘ
linked to:
ʿAbd al-Karim
|
| historicalSignificance | key figure in making Qom a center of Shia learning ⓘ |
| ideology | traditional Shia jurisprudence ⓘ |
| influenced | development of Qom as a major Shia scholarly center ⓘ |
| knownAs | founder of the modern Qom hawza ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
Arabic
ⓘ
Persian ⓘ |
| madhhab | Twelver Shia ⓘ |
| movement | Shia scholarly revival in Qom ⓘ |
| notability | leading Shia authority in Iran ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding the Qom seminary ⓘ |
| occupation |
cleric
ⓘ
jurist ⓘ seminary founder ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Iran
ⓘ
Qom ⓘ |
| position | marja' ⓘ |
| region |
Qom, Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Qom
|
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| religiousAuthorityOver | Shia Muslims who followed his marja'iyya ⓘ |
| religiousRank | high-ranking Shia cleric ⓘ |
| role | teacher of Shia scholars ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
Islamic jurisprudence
ⓘ
Shia seminaries ⓘ
linked to:
Shia hawzas
religious scholarship ⓘ |
| status | prominent marja' of his time ⓘ |
| title | Ayatollah ⓘ |
| tradition | Usuli Shia jurisprudence ⓘ |
| typeOfJurist | mujtahid ⓘ |
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: Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi Description of subject: Abdul-Karim Haeri Yazdi was a prominent Iranian Shia cleric and jurist, best known as the founder of the Qom seminary and a leading marjaʿ of the early 20th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.