Muhammadu Buhari
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Muhammadu Buhari is a Nigerian politician and retired major general who served as the President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Muhammadu Buhari canonical | 34 |
| Buhari | 2 |
| Major General Muhammadu Buhari | 1 |
| Muhammadu Buhari administration in Nigeria | 1 |
| Muhammadu Buhari – All Nigeria Peoples Party | 1 |
| Safinatu Buhari | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T480175 — 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: Muhammadu Buhari Context triple: [Bola Tinubu, predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari]
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A.
Oluremi Tinubu
Oluremi Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former First Lady of Lagos State who serves as the First Lady of Nigeria and has been a prominent senator and advocate for social and women’s issues.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
President of Nigeria
The President of Nigeria is the country’s head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief, leading the federal executive branch of Africa’s most populous nation.
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E.
Ashraf Ghani
Ashraf Ghani is an Afghan academic and politician who served as President of Afghanistan from 2014 until the Taliban takeover in 2021.
- 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: Muhammadu Buhari Target entity description: Muhammadu Buhari is a Nigerian politician and retired major general who served as the President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.
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A.
Oluremi Tinubu
Oluremi Tinubu is a Nigerian politician and former First Lady of Lagos State who serves as the First Lady of Nigeria and has been a prominent senator and advocate for social and women’s issues.
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B.
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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C.
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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D.
President of Nigeria
The President of Nigeria is the country’s head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief, leading the federal executive branch of Africa’s most populous nation.
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E.
Ashraf Ghani
Ashraf Ghani is an Afghan academic and politician who served as President of Afghanistan from 2014 until the Taliban takeover in 2021.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (65)
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: Muhammadu Buhari Description of subject: Muhammadu Buhari is a Nigerian politician and retired major general who served as the President of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023.
Referenced by (40)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Goodluck Jonathan administration in Nigeria
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followedBy
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Muhammadu Buhari administration in Nigeria
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linked to: Muhammadu Buhari
subject linked to:
APC
2003 Nigerian general election
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presidentialCandidateParty
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Muhammadu Buhari – All Nigeria Peoples Party
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linked to: Muhammadu Buhari
linked to: Muhammadu Buhari
linked to: Muhammadu Buhari
subject linked to:
Babangida