Idrissa
E38384
Idrissa is the given first name of British actor, producer, and musician Idris Elba.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Idrissa canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T296053 — 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: Idrissa Context triple: [Idris Elba, givenName, Idrissa]
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A.
Bambara
Bambara is a major Mande language widely spoken in Mali and neighboring West African countries, serving as a key lingua franca in the region.
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B.
Abdul Salaam
Abdul Salaam is a former American football defensive tackle best known as a member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Nasar
Nasar is a surname most notably associated with Sylvia Nasar, the economist and author of "A Beautiful Mind."
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D.
Mandinka
Mandinka is a major Mande language spoken primarily in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and neighboring West African countries by the Mandinka people.
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E.
Monsieur Ibrahim
Monsieur Ibrahim is a 2003 French drama film in which Omar Sharif delivers an acclaimed performance as a wise Turkish shopkeeper who befriends a lonely Parisian boy.
- 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: Idrissa Target entity description: Idrissa is the given first name of British actor, producer, and musician Idris Elba.
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A.
Bambara
Bambara is a major Mande language widely spoken in Mali and neighboring West African countries, serving as a key lingua franca in the region.
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B.
Abdul Salaam
Abdul Salaam is a former American football defensive tackle best known as a member of the New York Jets' famed "New York Sack Exchange" defensive line in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Nasar
Nasar is a surname most notably associated with Sylvia Nasar, the economist and author of "A Beautiful Mind."
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D.
Mandinka
Mandinka is a major Mande language spoken primarily in The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, and neighboring West African countries by the Mandinka people.
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E.
Monsieur Ibrahim
Monsieur Ibrahim is a 2003 French drama film in which Omar Sharif delivers an acclaimed performance as a wise Turkish shopkeeper who befriends a lonely Parisian boy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
first name
ⓘ
given name ⓘ |
| category |
African masculine given names
ⓘ
Arabic masculine given names ⓘ |
| etymologicalRoot | Idris (Arabic name) ⓘ |
| gender | masculine ⓘ |
| givenNameOf | Idris Elba ⓘ |
| hasMeaningRelatedTo |
biblical prophet Enoch
ⓘ
linked to:
Enoch
|
| hasNotableBearer | Idris Elba ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Arabic ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| usedInCulture |
African
ⓘ
Muslim ⓘ |
| variantOf | Idris ⓘ |
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: Idrissa Description of subject: Idrissa is the given first name of British actor, producer, and musician Idris Elba.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.