Sarah Onyango Obama
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Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama and a prominent advocate for girls’ education.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sarah Onyango Obama canonical | 5 |
| Mama Sarah Obama | 1 |
| Sarah Anyango Obama | 1 |
| Sarah Hussein Obama | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2358943 — 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)
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Target entity: Sarah Onyango Obama Context triple: [Hussein Onyango Obama, spouse, Sarah Onyango Obama]
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A.
Habiba Akumu Obama
Habiba Akumu Obama was a Kenyan woman best known as the first wife of Hussein Onyango Obama and the paternal grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama is an American lawyer, author, and former First Lady of the United States known for her advocacy on education, health, and military families.
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C.
Malia Obama
Malia Obama is the elder daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama, known for growing up in the public eye during his presidency and later pursuing studies and work in film and television.
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D.
Auma Obama
Auma Obama is a Kenyan-British community activist, author, and sociologist known for her work in sustainable development and as the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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E.
Sasha Obama
Sasha Obama is the younger daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, who grew up in the public eye during her father's presidency.
- 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: Sarah Onyango Obama Target entity description: Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama and a prominent advocate for girls’ education.
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A.
Habiba Akumu Obama
Habiba Akumu Obama was a Kenyan woman best known as the first wife of Hussein Onyango Obama and the paternal grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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B.
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama is an American lawyer, author, and former First Lady of the United States known for her advocacy on education, health, and military families.
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C.
Malia Obama
Malia Obama is the elder daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama, known for growing up in the public eye during his presidency and later pursuing studies and work in film and television.
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D.
Auma Obama
Auma Obama is a Kenyan-British community activist, author, and sociologist known for her work in sustainable development and as the half-sister of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
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E.
Sasha Obama
Sasha Obama is the younger daughter of former U.S. President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama, who grew up in the public eye during her father's presidency.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sarah Onyango Obama Description of subject: Sarah Onyango Obama was the Kenyan educator and philanthropist known as the step-grandmother of former U.S. President Barack Obama and a prominent advocate for girls’ education.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sarah Anyango Obama
this entity surface form:
Mama Sarah Obama
this entity surface form:
Sarah Hussein Obama