Aliou Cissé
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Aliou Cissé is a former Senegalese international footballer and the long-serving head coach who led Senegal to major successes, including their first Africa Cup of Nations title.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aliou Cissé canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12990126 — 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: Aliou Cissé Context triple: [Senegal national football team, notableCoach, Aliou Cissé]
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A.
Djibril Cissé
Djibril Cissé is a retired French professional footballer and prolific striker known for his powerful finishing, spells at clubs such as Liverpool and Marseille, and appearances for the French national team.
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B.
Ndiadiane Ndiaye
Ndiadiane Ndiaye is traditionally regarded as the legendary founder and first ruler of the Jolof (Wolof) Empire in what is now Senegal.
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C.
Solomana Kante
Solomana Kanté was a Guinean scholar and linguist best known for inventing the N’Ko script to write Manding languages and promote literacy and cultural identity in West Africa.
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D.
Ngolo Diarra
Ngolo Diarra was an 18th-century ruler who transformed Ségou into a powerful Bambara kingdom in the region of present-day Mali.
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E.
Yaya Touré
Yaya Touré is a retired Ivorian midfielder renowned for his dominant box-to-box play and key role in Manchester City's rise to Premier League prominence.
- 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: Aliou Cissé Target entity description: Aliou Cissé is a former Senegalese international footballer and the long-serving head coach who led Senegal to major successes, including their first Africa Cup of Nations title.
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A.
Djibril Cissé
Djibril Cissé is a retired French professional footballer and prolific striker known for his powerful finishing, spells at clubs such as Liverpool and Marseille, and appearances for the French national team.
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B.
Ndiadiane Ndiaye
Ndiadiane Ndiaye is traditionally regarded as the legendary founder and first ruler of the Jolof (Wolof) Empire in what is now Senegal.
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C.
Solomana Kante
Solomana Kanté was a Guinean scholar and linguist best known for inventing the N’Ko script to write Manding languages and promote literacy and cultural identity in West Africa.
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D.
Ngolo Diarra
Ngolo Diarra was an 18th-century ruler who transformed Ségou into a powerful Bambara kingdom in the region of present-day Mali.
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E.
Yaya Touré
Yaya Touré is a retired Ivorian midfielder renowned for his dominant box-to-box play and key role in Manchester City's rise to Premier League prominence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football manager
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association football player ⓘ human ⓘ |
| captainOf | Senegal national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coachOf | Senegal national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Africa ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Senegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cissé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Aliou NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
leading Senegal to first Africa Cup of Nations title
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long-serving head coach of Senegal national football team ⓘ |
| ledTeamToFinal | 2019 Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ledTeamToTitle | Senegal national football team 2021 Africa Cup of Nations ⓘ |
| managedAtTournament |
2018 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
2022 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| managedNationalTeam | Senegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Birmingham City F.C.
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
CS Sedan Ardennes NERFINISHED ⓘ Lille OSC NERFINISHED ⓘ Montpellier HSC NERFINISHED ⓘ Nîmes Olympique NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris Saint-Germain F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Portsmouth F.C. NERFINISHED ⓘ Senegal national football team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Aliou Cissé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Senegalese ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
World Cup quarter-finalist as player with Senegal in 2002
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first AFCON title in Senegal’s history as coach ⓘ |
| occupation |
football manager
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former professional footballer ⓘ |
| playedInLeague |
English Football League
NERFINISHED
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Ligue 1 NERFINISHED ⓘ Premier League NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| playedInTournament | 2002 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionPlayed |
defender
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defensive midfielder ⓘ |
| representedNationalTeam | Senegal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| styleOfPlay | defensive midfielder ⓘ |
| wonTournamentAsCoach |
2021 Africa Cup of Nations
NERFINISHED
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Africa Cup of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Aliou Cissé Description of subject: Aliou Cissé is a former Senegalese international footballer and the long-serving head coach who led Senegal to major successes, including their first Africa Cup of Nations title.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.