José Eduardo dos Santos
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José Eduardo dos Santos was the long-serving president of Angola who led the country through and after the Angolan Civil War, overseeing its transition from protracted conflict to postwar reconstruction and oil-fueled economic growth.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José Eduardo dos Santos canonical | 17 |
| José Eduardo dos Santos Vieira da Silva | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2367258 — 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: José Eduardo dos Santos Context triple: [Angolan Civil War, keyFigure, José Eduardo dos Santos]
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A.
João Lourenço
João Lourenço is an Angolan politician and former defense minister who has served as the country's president since 2017.
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B.
Xanana Gusmão
Xanana Gusmão is a Timorese independence leader and statesman who became the first president and later prime minister of Timor-Leste after leading the struggle against Indonesian occupation.
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C.
Paulin Obame-Nguema
Paulin Obame-Nguema was a Gabonese politician who served as a key government leader during the late 20th century, including a term as the country’s prime minister.
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D.
José Ramos-Horta
José Ramos-Horta is an East Timorese politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and key leader in his country’s struggle for independence who later served as president of Timor-Leste.
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E.
José Sócrates
José Sócrates is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011 and was a leading figure in the Socialist Party.
- 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: José Eduardo dos Santos Target entity description: José Eduardo dos Santos was the long-serving president of Angola who led the country through and after the Angolan Civil War, overseeing its transition from protracted conflict to postwar reconstruction and oil-fueled economic growth.
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A.
João Lourenço
João Lourenço is an Angolan politician and former defense minister who has served as the country's president since 2017.
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B.
Xanana Gusmão
Xanana Gusmão is a Timorese independence leader and statesman who became the first president and later prime minister of Timor-Leste after leading the struggle against Indonesian occupation.
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C.
Paulin Obame-Nguema
Paulin Obame-Nguema was a Gabonese politician who served as a key government leader during the late 20th century, including a term as the country’s prime minister.
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D.
José Ramos-Horta
José Ramos-Horta is an East Timorese politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and key leader in his country’s struggle for independence who later served as president of Timor-Leste.
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E.
José Sócrates
José Sócrates is a Portuguese politician who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 2005 to 2011 and was a leading figure in the Socialist Party.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: José Eduardo dos Santos Description of subject: José Eduardo dos Santos was the long-serving president of Angola who led the country through and after the Angolan Civil War, overseeing its transition from protracted conflict to postwar reconstruction and oil-fueled economic growth.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: José Eduardo dos Santos