Laide Soyinka
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Laide Soyinka is known primarily as the former spouse of Nigerian Nobel laureate and playwright Wole Soyinka.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Laide Soyinka canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10034221 — 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: Laide Soyinka Context triple: [Wole Soyinka, spouse, Laide Soyinka]
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A.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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B.
Kunle Olukotun
Kunle Olukotun is a Nigerian-American computer scientist and Stanford professor best known as a pioneer of chip multiprocessors and parallel computing architectures.
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C.
Odafin Tutuola
Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective portrayed by Ice-T on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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D.
Obba Babatundé
Obba Babatundé is an American actor, singer, and director known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions like "Dreamgirls" and numerous TV series.
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E.
Okieriete Onaodowan
Okieriete Onaodowan is an American actor and singer best known for originating the dual roles of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
- 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: Laide Soyinka Target entity description: Laide Soyinka is known primarily as the former spouse of Nigerian Nobel laureate and playwright Wole Soyinka.
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A.
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist who became the first African laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature, renowned for his powerful critiques of political oppression and exploration of Yoruba culture.
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B.
Kunle Olukotun
Kunle Olukotun is a Nigerian-American computer scientist and Stanford professor best known as a pioneer of chip multiprocessors and parallel computing architectures.
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C.
Odafin Tutuola
Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a tough, streetwise NYPD detective portrayed by Ice-T on the television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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D.
Obba Babatundé
Obba Babatundé is an American actor, singer, and director known for his work in film, television, and theater, including notable roles in productions like "Dreamgirls" and numerous TV series.
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E.
Okieriete Onaodowan
Okieriete Onaodowan is an American actor and singer best known for originating the dual roles of Hercules Mulligan and James Madison in the Broadway musical "Hamilton."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Nigeria ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the former spouse of Wole Soyinka ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Wole Soyinka ⓘ |
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: Laide Soyinka Description of subject: Laide Soyinka is known primarily as the former spouse of Nigerian Nobel laureate and playwright Wole Soyinka.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.