Abdul Rahman Yasin
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Abdul Rahman Yasin is an American-born terrorist of Iraqi descent who played a key role in preparing the explosives used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has long remained a fugitive from U.S. justice.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Abdul Rahman Yasin canonical | 3 |
| Abdul Rahman S. Yasin | 1 |
| Abdul Rahman Saeed Yasin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9130527 — 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 Rahman Yasin Context triple: [1993 World Trade Center bombing, perpetrator, Abdul Rahman Yasin]
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A.
Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas is a Yemeni politician who served as a leading statesman during the era of South Yemen and later became the first prime minister of a unified Yemen.
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B.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was a Palestinian imam and political leader best known as the founder and spiritual leader of the Islamist militant organization Hamas.
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C.
Al-Yassin
Al-Yassin is the maiden family name of Queen Rania of Jordan, associated with her Palestinian Jordanian heritage.
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D.
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Ali Nasir Muhammad is a Yemeni politician and former leader of South Yemen who played a central role in the country's socialist government and its internal power struggles during the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Abdul Rahman Azzam
Abdul Rahman Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, nationalist, and statesman best known for serving as the founding Secretary-General of the Arab League and advocating Arab unity in the mid-20th century.
- 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 Rahman Yasin Target entity description: Abdul Rahman Yasin is an American-born terrorist of Iraqi descent who played a key role in preparing the explosives used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has long remained a fugitive from U.S. justice.
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A.
Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas
Haider Abu Bakr al-Attas is a Yemeni politician who served as a leading statesman during the era of South Yemen and later became the first prime minister of a unified Yemen.
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B.
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin was a Palestinian imam and political leader best known as the founder and spiritual leader of the Islamist militant organization Hamas.
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C.
Al-Yassin
Al-Yassin is the maiden family name of Queen Rania of Jordan, associated with her Palestinian Jordanian heritage.
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D.
Ali Nasir Muhammad
Ali Nasir Muhammad is a Yemeni politician and former leader of South Yemen who played a central role in the country's socialist government and its internal power struggles during the 1970s and 1980s.
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E.
Abdul Rahman Azzam
Abdul Rahman Azzam was an Egyptian diplomat, nationalist, and statesman best known for serving as the founding Secretary-General of the Arab League and advocating Arab unity in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
terrorist ⓘ |
| activity | helped prepare explosives for 1993 World Trade Center bombing ⓘ |
| alive | presumed ⓘ |
| appearedOnList |
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list
ⓘ
linked to:
FBI Most Wanted Terrorists
|
| associatedWithCountry | Iraq ⓘ |
| charge | terrorism-related offenses in connection with 1993 World Trade Center bombing ⓘ |
| coConspiratorIn | 1993 World Trade Center bombing ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateAddedToList | 2001-10-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-04-10 ⓘ |
| descent | Iraqi descent ⓘ |
| education | studied in the United States ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Iraqi ⓘ |
| familyName | Yasin ⓘ |
| fugitiveSince | 1993 ⓘ |
| fullName | Abdul Rahman Yasin ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Abdul Rahman ⓘ |
| indictedBy | United States federal grand jury ⓘ |
| indictmentDate | 1993-03 ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Islamist terrorism in the United States ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Arabic
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | fugitive from U.S. justice ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAlias |
Abdul Rahman S. Yasin
ⓘ
linked to:
Abdul Rahman Yasin
Abdul Rahman Saeed Yasin ⓘ
linked to:
Abdul Rahman Yasin
|
| notableCrime | participation in 1993 World Trade Center bombing ⓘ |
| notableFor | 1993 World Trade Center bombing ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Bloomington, Indiana
|
| reasonForRemovalFromList | administrative removal; still wanted ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| removedFromList | yes ⓘ |
| residenceBeforeFugitiveStatus |
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Jersey City
|
| returnedToCountry | Iraq ⓘ |
| returnedToCountryDate | 1993-03 ⓘ |
| rewardOfferedBy | United States government ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | bomb-maker in 1993 World Trade Center bombing ⓘ |
| soughtFor |
aiding and abetting
ⓘ
conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center ⓘ interstate transportation of explosives ⓘ use of weapons of mass destruction ⓘ |
| status | fugitive ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
FBI wanted poster
ⓘ
U.S. State Department Rewards for Justice notice ⓘ
linked to:
U.S. Rewards for Justice program
international manhunt ⓘ |
| wantedBy | Federal Bureau of Investigation ⓘ |
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 Rahman Yasin Description of subject: Abdul Rahman Yasin is an American-born terrorist of Iraqi descent who played a key role in preparing the explosives used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and has long remained a fugitive from U.S. justice.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Abdul Rahman Yasin
linked to: Abdul Rahman Yasin