Ahmad Khomeini
E517445
Ahmad Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure best known as the influential son and close aide of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, playing a key role in the early years of the Islamic Republic.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ahmad Khomeini canonical | 6 |
| Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5168168 — 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: Ahmad Khomeini Context triple: [Ruhollah Khomeini, child, Ahmad Khomeini]
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A.
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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B.
Mostafa Khomeini
Mostafa Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure, best known as the eldest son and close confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and as a prominent opponent of the Pahlavi monarchy whose mysterious death in 1977 galvanized revolutionary sentiment.
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C.
Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country’s highest political and religious authority since 1989.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Ahmad Khomeini Target entity description: Ahmad Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure best known as the influential son and close aide of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, playing a key role in the early years of the Islamic Republic.
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A.
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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B.
Mostafa Khomeini
Mostafa Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure, best known as the eldest son and close confidant of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and as a prominent opponent of the Pahlavi monarchy whose mysterious death in 1977 galvanized revolutionary sentiment.
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C.
Ali Khamenei
Ali Khamenei is the Supreme Leader of Iran, the country’s highest political and religious authority since 1989.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Iranian cleric
ⓘ
Shia cleric ⓘ human ⓘ political figure ⓘ revolutionary ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Islamic Republic of Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Iran
Islamic Revolutionary leadership ⓘ
linked to:
Supreme Leadership of Iran
Office of the Supreme Leader of Iran ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1946-03-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Iran
ⓘ
Qom ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini
ⓘ
linked to:
Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran
Tehran ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| child | Hassan Khomeini ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Iran ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1995-03-17 ⓘ |
| educatedIn |
Qom Seminary
ⓘ
linked to:
Hawza of Qom
|
| ethnicGroup | Persians ⓘ |
| familyName |
Khomeini
ⓘ
linked to:
Ruhollah Khomeini
|
| father | Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ |
| fullName |
Sayyid Ahmad Khomeini
ⓘ
linked to:
Ahmad Khomeini
|
| givenName | Ahmad ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Hojjatoleslam ⓘ |
| ideology |
Islamic republicanism
ⓘ
Islamism ⓘ |
| mother | Khadijeh Saqafi ⓘ |
| movement |
Islamic Revolution in Iran
ⓘ
linked to:
Iranian Revolution
|
| nativeLanguage | Persian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acting as intermediary between Ruhollah Khomeini and Iranian officials
ⓘ
political influence after the 1979 Iranian Revolution ⓘ role in the early years of the Islamic Republic of Iran ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Iranian Revolution ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
chief of staff to Ruhollah Khomeini
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close aide to Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ deputy to the Supreme Leader’s office ⓘ |
| relative |
Hassan Khomeini
ⓘ
Mostafa Khomeini ⓘ |
| religion |
Islam
ⓘ
Shia Islam ⓘ |
| residence |
Qom
ⓘ
Tehran ⓘ |
| roleDuringIranIraqWar | political and clerical supporter of the war effort ⓘ |
| sibling | Mostafa Khomeini ⓘ |
| signatureWork | political correspondence and mediation for Ruhollah Khomeini ⓘ |
| spouse | Fatemeh Tabatabaei ⓘ |
| workLocation | Jamaran, Tehran ⓘ |
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: Ahmad Khomeini Description of subject: Ahmad Khomeini was an Iranian cleric and political figure best known as the influential son and close aide of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, playing a key role in the early years of the Islamic Republic.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.