Oyelowo
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Oyelowo is the surname of David Oyelowo, a British-Nigerian actor known for roles in films such as "Selma" and "The Butler."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Oyelowo canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1787888 — 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: Oyelowo Context triple: [David Oyelowo, familyName, Oyelowo]
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A.
Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo
Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entertainer best known by his stage name D'banj, a leading figure in Afrobeats and contemporary African pop music.
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B.
Awujale of Ijebu
The Awujale of Ijebu is the paramount monarch and spiritual-political leader of the Ijebu people within the Yoruba cultural sphere of southwestern Nigeria.
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C.
Osogbo
Osogbo is a major city in southwestern Nigeria known for its rich Yoruba cultural heritage and the UNESCO-listed Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove.
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D.
Abiodun Okulaja
Abiodun Okulaja is a soccer referee best known for officiating at the highest levels of professional play in the United States, including Major League Soccer.
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E.
Idara Victor
Idara Victor is an American actress best known for her television work, including a notable role on the crime drama series "Rizzoli & Isles."
- 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: Oyelowo Target entity description: Oyelowo is the surname of David Oyelowo, a British-Nigerian actor known for roles in films such as "Selma" and "The Butler."
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A.
Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo
Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, and entertainer best known by his stage name D'banj, a leading figure in Afrobeats and contemporary African pop music.
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B.
Awujale of Ijebu
The Awujale of Ijebu is the paramount monarch and spiritual-political leader of the Ijebu people within the Yoruba cultural sphere of southwestern Nigeria.
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C.
Osogbo
Osogbo is a major city in southwestern Nigeria known for its rich Yoruba cultural heritage and the UNESCO-listed Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove.
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D.
Abiodun Okulaja
Abiodun Okulaja is a soccer referee best known for officiating at the highest levels of professional play in the United States, including Major League Soccer.
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E.
Idara Victor
Idara Victor is an American actress best known for her television work, including a notable role on the crime drama series "Rizzoli & Isles."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Oyelowo Description of subject: Oyelowo is the surname of David Oyelowo, a British-Nigerian actor known for roles in films such as "Selma" and "The Butler."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Oyelowo