Yakubu Dogara
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Yakubu Dogara is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Yakubu | 2 |
| Yakubu Dogara canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2719270 — 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: Yakubu Dogara Context triple: [All Progressives Congress, producedSpeakerOfHouseOfRepresentativesOfNigeria, Yakubu Dogara]
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A.
General Abdulsalami Abubakar
General Abdulsalami Abubakar is a Nigerian military leader and former head of state best known for overseeing the country’s transition from military to civilian rule in 1999.
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B.
Abraham Attah
Abraham Attah is a Ghanaian actor best known for his acclaimed breakout performance as a child soldier in the film "Beasts of No Nation."
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C.
Murtala Muhammed
Murtala Muhammed was a Nigerian military general and the country’s Head of State from 1975 until his assassination in 1976, remembered for his anti-corruption stance and efforts to reform government.
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D.
Bola Tinubu
Bola Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Lagos State who became president of Nigeria in 2023.
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E.
Aliyu Babba
Aliyu Babba was a prominent 19th-century ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate, known for his role in maintaining and administering one of West Africa’s largest Islamic empires.
- 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: Yakubu Dogara Target entity description: Yakubu Dogara is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
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A.
General Abdulsalami Abubakar
General Abdulsalami Abubakar is a Nigerian military leader and former head of state best known for overseeing the country’s transition from military to civilian rule in 1999.
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B.
Abraham Attah
Abraham Attah is a Ghanaian actor best known for his acclaimed breakout performance as a child soldier in the film "Beasts of No Nation."
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C.
Murtala Muhammed
Murtala Muhammed was a Nigerian military general and the country’s Head of State from 1975 until his assassination in 1976, remembered for his anti-corruption stance and efforts to reform government.
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D.
Bola Tinubu
Bola Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former governor of Lagos State who became president of Nigeria in 2023.
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E.
Aliyu Babba
Aliyu Babba was a prominent 19th-century ruler of the Sokoto Caliphate, known for his role in maintaining and administering one of West Africa’s largest Islamic empires.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| branchOfGovernment |
Legislative branch of Nigeria
ⓘ
linked to:
National Assembly of Nigeria
|
| continent | Africa ⓘ |
| country | Nigeria ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nigeria ⓘ |
| familyName | Dogara ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
law
ⓘ
politics ⓘ |
| givenName |
Yakubu
ⓘ
linked to:
Yakubu Dogara
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | House of Representatives of Nigeria ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Hausa ⓘ |
| notableFor | Serving as Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives ⓘ |
| notableRole | Presiding officer of the Nigerian House of Representatives ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| officeEnd | 2019 ⓘ |
| officeStart | 2015 ⓘ |
| politicalRegion | Nigeria ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria
ⓘ
Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria ⓘ |
| precededBy | Aminu Waziri Tambuwal ⓘ |
| residence | Abuja ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Femi Gbajabiamila ⓘ |
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: Yakubu Dogara Description of subject: Yakubu Dogara is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Yakubu Dogara
linked to: Yakubu Dogara