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  "ar": "مشهد"
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  "en": "City in north-eastern Iran, site of the shrine of Imam Ali al-Rida and a major Shia pilgrimage centre.",
  "ar": "مدينة في شمال شرق إيران، فيها مرقد الإمام علي بن موسى الرضا، وهي من أهم مزارات الشيعة."
 },
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  "persia-central-asia"
 ],
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 "themes": [],
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  "external_ids": {
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  },
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  ],
  "provenance": {
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   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "wikidata-insertion-wave1-S5",
   "source": "Wikidata Q121157 via local subset; book source record as listed"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5; Wikidata insertion wave 1, slice S5; to be checked against the cited book"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-19",
 "connections": [
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   "to": "person/ali-khamenei",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-khamenei-en",
    "source/wikipedia-khamenei-fa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/anousheh-ansari",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
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    "source/wikidata-anousheh-ansari"
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  },
  {
   "to": "person/ebrahim-raisi",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Born in the Noghan district of Mashhad.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-raisi-en",
    "source/wikidata-raisi"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/ebrahim-raisi",
   "type": "burial_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Buried at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad on 23 May 2024.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-raisi-en"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/maryam-monsef",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mirza-husayn-khan-moshir-al-dowleh",
   "type": "death_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "note": "Died at Mashhad on 30 Aban 1260 SH (21 November 1881).",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-mirza-hosein-khan-sepahsalar-en",
    "source/wikipedia-mirza-hosein-khan-sepahsalar-fa",
    "source/wikidata-mirza-hosein-khan-sepahsalar"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mohammad-amir-ahmad-khan",
   "type": "burial_place_of",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-mohammad-amir-ahmad-khan-en"
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  },
  {
   "to": "person/mohammad-taqi-bahar",
   "type": "birthplace_of",
   "inverse": true,
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    "source/wikipedia-mohammad-taqi-bahar-fa"
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  }
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  "person/akbar-hashemi-rafsanjani",
  "person/hassan-rouhani",
  "person/mohammad-ali-mohammad-khan",
  "person/ruhollah-khomeini",
  "place/qazvin",
  "person/ali-khamenei",
  "person/anousheh-ansari",
  "person/ebrahim-raisi"
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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