Grand Magal of Touba
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The Grand Magal of Touba is a major annual Senegalese religious pilgrimage and festival that commemorates the exile and spiritual legacy of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, founder of the Mouride (Muridiya) Sufi order.
All labels observed (1)
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| Grand Magal of Touba canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T16192346 — 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: Grand Magal of Touba Context triple: [Muridiya Sufi order, majorEvent, Grand Magal of Touba]
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A.
Amadu Bamba
Amadu Bamba was a Senegalese Sufi religious leader and founder of the Mouride brotherhood, renowned for his nonviolent resistance to French colonial rule and emphasis on hard work, piety, and Islamic scholarship.
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B.
Tata of Sikasso
The Tata of Sikasso is a historic defensive fortification system in Sikasso, Mali, renowned for its massive earthen walls built in the 19th century to protect the city from invasions.
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C.
Mari Djata
Mari Djata, better known as Sundiata Keita, was the 13th-century founder and first emperor of the Mali Empire in West Africa.
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D.
Soumaoro Kanté
Soumaoro Kanté was a powerful 13th-century king of the Sosso who is best known as the main antagonist of the Mali Empire’s founder Sundiata Keita in West African oral tradition.
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E.
Sundiata Acoli
Sundiata Acoli is an American former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member who became a prominent political prisoner after his conviction for the 1973 New Jersey Turnpike shootout.
- 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: Grand Magal of Touba Target entity description: The Grand Magal of Touba is a major annual Senegalese religious pilgrimage and festival that commemorates the exile and spiritual legacy of Sheikh Amadou Bamba, founder of the Mouride (Muridiya) Sufi order.
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A.
Amadu Bamba
Amadu Bamba was a Senegalese Sufi religious leader and founder of the Mouride brotherhood, renowned for his nonviolent resistance to French colonial rule and emphasis on hard work, piety, and Islamic scholarship.
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B.
Tata of Sikasso
The Tata of Sikasso is a historic defensive fortification system in Sikasso, Mali, renowned for its massive earthen walls built in the 19th century to protect the city from invasions.
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C.
Mari Djata
Mari Djata, better known as Sundiata Keita, was the 13th-century founder and first emperor of the Mali Empire in West Africa.
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D.
Soumaoro Kanté
Soumaoro Kanté was a powerful 13th-century king of the Sosso who is best known as the main antagonist of the Mali Empire’s founder Sundiata Keita in West African oral tradition.
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E.
Sundiata Acoli
Sundiata Acoli is an American former Black Panther and Black Liberation Army member who became a prominent political prisoner after his conviction for the 1973 New Jersey Turnpike shootout.
- F. None of above. chosen
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